Amphibious Houses: Dutch Answer to Flooding: Build Houses that Swim

The Dutch are gearing up for climate change with amphibious houses. If rivers rise above their banks, the houses simply rise upwards as well. Such innovation could be good news for hurricane and flood-stunned America. But are water lovers prepared to live on swimming family...

The world's best video diarists

Bloggers have moved into a new dimension - streaming video.Tomas Rawlings logs on to find the cream of the crop SOURCE The Independent Rocketboom http://www.rocketboom.com/vlog/ The vblog that everybody is talking about. Based in New York, Rocketboom is a professional...

BLACK AND WHITE: Poor, black and dying - SAVE ME!

It's strange you know, I've only ever been to the USA once and I visited only two places: New Orleans and New York. Both have since seen the most terrible acts of violence - the first man-made, the second natural - with the loss of thousands of lives. It's just chance, of...

Surviving the Flood: Review of the Rotterdam Architecture Biennale

Memo to Mayor Bloomberg, Dan Doctoroff, Bruce Ratner et al: If, after all this, you still want to put a stadium in New York City, the Bigfoot Stadium is the best way to do it. Designed by Heneghan Peng Architects for the International Ideas Competition in 1997, this floating...

corte europea condena a holanda

[Vluchtelingenwerk] Corte Europea de Justicia condena a Holanda en caso de asilo. [...] // European court of Justice it condemns to Holland in case of asylum

piden renuncia de ministra verdonk

Por el caso del Congo. La ministro Verdonk, de Extranjería, debe explicarse ante la Cámara por entregar datos de refugiados a gobierno de su país. [...]

prohibirán canales árabes

Según gobierno, individuos se transforman en fanáticos peligrosos debido a canales extranjeros. [...]