Booking site Moonback expands even further with crowdfunding
In 2021 Rotterdam-based booking site Moonback was launched after a crowdfunding campaign. It has become an overnight success as its principle is highly admirable. An easy alternative to stressing booking sites only going for profit. Now a second crowdfunding campaign is started to expand more. Moonback wants to use the investment to make an even […]
Restobar Amore celebrates love for festive eating and drinking
On Friday 17 June, Kim Pieters and Kelly Vincent, known from Weelde, will open their first permanent restobar on the Tiendplein. Everyone is welcome at the festive opening weekend of Amore. For uncomplicated but good food, many drinks to taste and especially some exciting other things. To celebrate the opening night of the new hotspot […]
Focused creates design and art from recycled skateboards
Focused started in 2015, when a couple of designers with a love for skating had the idea to use recycling skateboards to create furniture. Skateboards are made up of seven-ply maple. When boards break those old seven plies are still full of life. The Rotterdam-based design studio uses this material. Local skate shops collect thrashed […]
Diergaarde Blijdorp opens new Himalaya area
Diergaarde Blijdorp is the largest national monument in Rotterdam. With the realization of a new Himalaya area, the monumental Mountain Animal Rock is also renovated. Here the little pandas and crested deer will live together. The new Himalaya area is decorated with planting, pavement and buildings typical of the area. Including an educational Sherpa hut. […]
Rotterdam Rooftop Walk allows the public a different experience of the city
The Rotterdam Rooftop Walk is now open to visitors until June 24. Every day those who aren’t afraid of height can cross the Coolsingel from 10 AM to 8 PM. The Rooftop Walk aims to give the public a new perspective on the city. The extensive programming should increase visitors’ awareness of the potential of […]
Daily at Donner sells groceries at famous bookstore
On the ground floor of Donner, the book mecca on the Coolsingel, you will find a mini-market with fresh products from local entrepreneurs. Daily at Donner offers pastry from Holtkamp, cheese from the Kaashoeve, and bread from Jordy’s Bakery. The coffee from Man Met Bril Koffie is available to go or per bag of beans. […]
De Kaapse Markt is a fresh new market in Katendrecht
A new market is starting at the initiative of the Municipality of Rotterdam. The Kaapse Markt, a small-scale Friday market on the Deliplein in the middle of the bustling Katendrecht district. The first edition is this Friday, May 27. The Kaapse Markt will be open from 10 AM to 5 PM. For now it’s a […]
So Good To Wear is changing the cashmere industry
So Good To Wear is a Rotterdam-based high-end fashion brand that recrafts cashmere. Their designs are produced with new and restored values, by bringing back true craftsmanship and transforming it into a more conscious and personal process. So Good To Wear is founded by experienced fair trade entrepreneurs Fons and Jacqui Burger. While travelling through […]
Catchy 2 takes up the fight with trash in the Nieuwe Maas River
Allseas is a world-leading contractor in the offshore energy market. In Rotterdam, the Bluemarine Offshore Yard Service is the logistics center for project materials and vessel consumables and provides storage and maintenance of the equipment used in projects. It also presented its latest waste collection system here. Catchy 2 accumulates plastics and other trash from […]
Powerhouse Company and Lensvelt present the Coquille Chair
Powerhouse Company is an award-winning architecture office based in Rotterdam. Known for some striking buildings and initiatives in the city. But the firm also designs on a smaller scale. Together with Lensvelt the Coquille Chair was developed. A new indoor-outdoor sustainable chair. The launch has taken place at the Floating Office Rotterdam. Headquarters of Powerhouse […]