The Happier the Hotelier, the Happier the Guest!
Posted in Austria, Dutch Design, Promotions, Switzerland, UK on Jun 6th, 2008
Aanvallah (source Arab_Lab Loves Aanvallah)
According to Tjebbe, who initiated this media project to get Muslims united with the Dutch soccer team, and Dutch people with their neighbors, this will be the T-Shirt of choice for the Dutch Football Fans who will visit the 2008 EK Football (European Soccer Championship) that starts today in Switzerland and [...]
Posted in Architecture, Design, Dutch Design, Marketing, News, Promotions on Nov 8th, 2007
Via Bert Brussen from Trouw
On initiative of the Christian Democratic Party CDA, Dutch Parliament has instructed the Dutch Ministers (who reside in The Hague, hence the “The Hague” reference in the title as a metaphor for Dutch government) to study the possibility of an artificial island in the Northsea between Rotterdam and IJmuiden. IJmuiden is [...]
Posted in Amsterdam, Blogs, Design, Dutch Design, Hotel Design, Netherlands, Pod Hotel, Trends on Oct 31st, 2007
When launched Qbic got featured on CNN. I didn’t see it myself. I red the transcript once, but thanks to fellow Blogger Época Alta I found the Youtube link:
The first Qbic Hotel is four months in operation now and its occupancy rates are reportedly over 90%.
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Posted in Australia, Delft, Design, Dutch Design, Sustainable on Oct 25th, 2007
Unofficially, according to a comment on its Blog, confirmed by a post on the official WSC Blog, Dutch Nuna4 has won the World Solar Challenge.
They arrived at Port Augusta at 16.54 hr local time, just 6 minutes before closing time of the control and finished the official timed stretch of the race. The Port [...]
Posted in Australia, Delft, Design, Dutch Design, Sustainable on Oct 25th, 2007
With this magnificent photo that I pinched from the Panasonic World Solar Challenge site today, I’ll give you a short update after 3 days of racing and a rest day in Alice Springs:
Nuna4 of the Nuon Solar Team (Delft, Netherlands) with 756 km to go to the finish in Adelaide
Umicore Solar Team (Belgium) roughly 82 [...]
Posted in Amsterdam, Coming Soon, Dutch Design, Netherlands, News, Pod Hotel on Sep 25th, 2007
Last Saturday the reverent Dutch Daily Newspaper
NRC Handelsblad
published a story about one of the future locations of a Citizen M Pod Hotel in Amstelveen, a suburb of, and connected with, Amsterdam. It gives more insight about the format of the Citizen M Pod Hotel concept.
It appears that the neighborhood, a middle to up class [...]
Posted in Amsterdam, Coming Soon, Dutch Design, Hotel Design, Hoteliers, News, Pod Hotel, The Making of on Sep 12th, 2007
CitizenM Logo
Early 2008 will see a third (the others being the Qbic and the Yotel) Pod Hotel, CitizenM Hotels, opening at the Amsterdam Schiphol Airport.
The 230 rooms (pods?) counting hotel is presently under construction.
Under the “Affordable Luxury” slogan:
CitizenM has partnered with internationally renowned architects Concrete, and European design giants Philips and Vitra to offer “affordable [...]
Posted in City Marketing, Design, Dutch Design, News, The Hague on Aug 17th, 2007
The Hague Post Stamp
Do you do snail mail? I still do!. And my first job today will be running to the Post Office to acquire a good stock of this new post stamp issued by Royal Dutch TNT Post in a series “Beautiful Netherlands” , which did a much better job than the The Hague [...]
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