Maasvlakte 2, Europort, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Room for the River, The Netherlands
North Sea Dike, North Holland, The Netherlands
Flood defenses, the Netherlands
Rotterdam riverfront park integrated into dike
Notebook page sample
Notebook page, Maeslant Barrier
Haffen City, Hamburg
The Oosterschelde Barrier, Zealand, The Netherlands
The Thames Barrier, London
Flood gates, at China Shipping, Hamburg
The Oosterschelde Barrier, Zealand
The Oosterschelde Barrier, Zealand
The Oosterschelde Barrier
The Maeslant Barrier
Kinderdijk
Kinderdijk
Face4.
The Thames Barrier
Houseboat rats, Amsterdam
Floating Apartments, Rotterdam
The Port of Rotterdam
Adam Smith, RSA Associates director
Self-portrait
The Tate
Venice construction barge
Han Meyer, Professor of Urban Design at the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands. His expertise is on urbanism in port cities and what he has coined as ‘Delta-urbanism,’ considering integrated approach of urban planning and design, hydraulic engineering and port development in delta-areas.
Pier Vellinga, Dutch expert on the impacts of climate change. Investor in climate change research
Jos Besteman, director of legal affairs for the Hollands Noorderkwatier Hoogheemraadschap, one of twenty-five water boards in the Netherlands. A Water Board is a public office in charge of preventing floods, keeping the land dry, and treating wastewater. If your affair falls under any context of ‘water management,’ then water board is in charge.
David Waggonner, Principal Architect at Waggonner and Ball Architects in New Orleans, developed a city water plan after collaborating with Dutch Engineers and Designers
Sarah D.
Nate T. in Venice
Quilmes, Bariloche
Face3
Tracy Metz, Author of ‘Sweet and Salt: Water and the Dutch’
Gus V.
Copenhagen
Den Haag
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Westerkerk, Amsterdam
Koen Olthius, Principal Architect at Waterstudio.NL. Koen designs floating buildings and has larger city-scale ideas for a more watery world. In 2007 he was chosen as no. 122 on Time Magazine’s list of most influential people in the world due to the increasing worldwide interest in water developments. In addition, the French magazine, Terra Eco, choose him in 2011 as one of 100 green persons that will change the world.
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