Sweet&Salt:
Water Is Their Frenemy
Sweeet&Salt: Water and the Dutch is 'a beautiful and important book', writes Armando Carbonell of the Lincoln Institute for Land Policy in his review of the book for the Loeb Fellowship site. 'The ever-increasing Dutch reliance on engineering solutions to keep the water at bay does not come without costs, and they go beyond the never-ending building and maintenance of structures. There are increasing conflicts between the sweet and the salt, with serious worries about fresh water for drinking and agriculture.' And now comes the 'hot breath of climate change', with a higher sea level, bigger storm surges and more extreme rainfall events. The Dutch response? Not so much the widely touted building with nature, says Carbonell, but rather: engineering with nature.
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Prizes and praise for 'Sweet&Salt'
Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum: A Gem, Newly Polished
The canaries in the global warming-coalmine
When he opens his eyes, Wout Berger sees the IJsselmeer
Lessons for New York from NL: the Overdiepsepolder revisited
Collector Marty de Montereau's collectors at NoFound in Paris
East Wing, newcomer from Qatar at Paris Photo
Water Lessons from NL for NY
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Diana Blok's poignant story: 'Time Tells'
Sweet&Salt: Water Is Their Frenemy
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My Venice Biennale 2012 #2: Rebuilding after the tsunami
My Venice Biennale 2012 #1: Architecture's mea culpa
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It's not architecture if it doesn't get built
'Broken Light' softens a hardscrabble street in Rotterdam's old harbor area
Designing for water: the sweet & the salt of it
Two kinds of smiles
Furniture manufacturer Vitra collects architecture
Interview with Renny Ramakers of Droog Design
Sparkling Eiffel Tower
Queen of Diamonds
Megacities by Martin Roemers
Easter 'eggs' in Spain
Insanely great: Walter Isaacson on Steve Jobs
'Sweet&Salt' presented to the crown prince
Proto-architecture in sticks and cardboard
James Gleick on 'The Information'
Risorgimento in industrial heritage
Empathy at the Design Academy
Irene fills New York's urban canyons
Eindhoven concert hall as Gesamtkunstwerk
BMW and Guggenheim team up
Lionel Feininger in America
Dale Chihuly: glass on steroids
'Simulating Iraq' in America
