RiF010, the world’s first urban surf pool is about to open
RiF010 has a world first: it is the first surf pool in the middle of a city. Urban surfing, in other words. The location in the heart of Rotterdam is easily accessible to a wide audience and transforms a forgotten part of the city into a new, vibrant heart. Soon the first waves will roll […]
Rotterdam Architecture Month takes over Museumpark
The largest architecture festival in the Netherlands is descending on Museumpark during the whole month of June. Visitors of all ages can follow a route through green surroundings. It passes by special installations about the past, present and future of the park. The crowdpuller of this edition is the temporary opening of Museum Boijmans Van […]
The Usual opens hotel for the conscious traveller
On Westblaak 10 The Usual opens a new hotel where people find each other spontaneously, and ideas and inspiration flow freely. Guests can meet each other while enjoying a croissant and a FairChain coffee, a good daily dinner, or bond with like-minded people during events, music performances, workshops, and talks. The Usual offers the best […]
ibis Styles Rotterdam Ahoy is now open
Adjacent to the Rotterdam Ahoy concert venue and convention centre the new ibis Styles Rotterdam has opened its doors in Rotterdam-Zuid. This stylish hotel offers 250 contemporary and spacious rooms. Together with the chic Italian restaurant, Giacobbe Aperitivo e Cucina, this stylish hotel promises an unforgettable experience. In Rotterdam, the typical ibis Styles features are reflected […]
The city collection of Rotterdam comes to life
Unfolding across a 66-metre window display, a new pop-up exhibition tells the story of Rotterdam through over a hundred artefacts from the Netherlands’ largest historical city collection (containing 115,000 items). Despite there currently being no city museum to showcase these unique pieces, beautiful images, and moving stories, this exhibition’s setting perfectly encapsulates Rotterdam’s spirit. Situated […]
OMA unveils PRINCIPLES
Rotterdam-based architecture firm OMA has worked together with UniFor to create PRINCIPLES. The fundamental concept of PRINCIPLES is to provide furnishings that can be used by anyone, at any time, to best support the flow of operations and communications required by the contemporary workplace. PRINCIPLES was awarded with iF Design Award. The collection is composed […]
The New Raw crafts plastic waste with robots
The New Raw is a research and design studio based in Rotterdam and was founded in 2015 by architects Panos Sakkas and Foteini Setaki with the ambition to give new life to discarded materials through design, robots and craftsmanship. The New Raw already introduced several meaningful products that are 100% circular. The Knotty is their newest […]
Visit the world’s largest ocean-going wooden sailing ship
Götheborg of Sweden is the world’s largest ocean-going wooden sailing ship, an 18th century replica of the original Götheborg that sank outside of Gothenburg in 1745. May 11 it moors at the Holland Amerikakade. The ship can be visited until May 14. Rotterdam is a stopover for the ship en route to home port […]
Rotterdam-based Lex Pott designs for Vero
Vero is a young furniture brand advocating a new era of Italian design. It believes in the values of informality and transparency. The brand asked Rotterdam-based Lex Pott to design for them. Pott employs a raw and intuitive method. In his work, he returns to the origin of the materials he uses most: wood, stone […]
Smart electric vehicle company NIO parks at the Meent
NIO is a new car company. It designs and develops smart, high-performance, electric vehicles but also wants to build communities. By opening NIO houses in big cities for example. There now is a NIO House in Rotterdam, at de Meent. At the outpost, NIO wants to offer a pleasant, welcoming space for (new) users to […]
