Tulip Island – Design a Polder
A proposal to gain 600.000 m2 of land near the Dutch coast recently came from the CDA (Dutch Christian-Democratic political party). The idea is to create a tulip-shaped island that will provide agricultural space, clean energy, a new national airport and protect the current coastline all at once. The proposal must be seen as a teaser to market the idea of creating such an island. However it is not entirely unthinkable that it may become realized; Dutch contractors already built a Palm-shaped island located off the Deira coast of Dubai.
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The Dutch Parliament just voted ‘yes’ tonight for a proposal to seriously research the possibility of such an island in the sea.
http://www.nu.nl/news/1303865/11/Steun_voor_onderzoek_naar_Noordzeepolder.html
Allright, let’s start a contest: DESIGN–A–POLDER
Describe what this Fresh Dutch SeaPolder will look like?!
I want it to be a DONUT (or three!)
Some other ideas came from http://www.dag.nl
And my proposal: ‘Klein Holland’
http://www.geenstijl.nl
Promotional bumpersticker:
Nice and natural remake of the Dubai Palms rdeman!
Arnoud, This last design of yours I find quite brilliant. Good and honest marketing and it is a clear form with a lot new won land.
Thanks Koert. I had another idea of making just a square off the coast, like one pixel (so it reads “.nl”). Do you think the concept is perhaps too Next Nature
Just reverse the ‘problem’.
The biggest dream of half of the Dutch nation.
Take a bite from thát pear!
Help !! where is my brain!!
You left The Hague (Dutch parliament) up and running Andy, or is that the other part–of–the–nations dream?
The ‘dream’ is meant for the football-fan point of view.
In that case, shouldn’t we add grass instead of deleting it?
Bad idea because then the midgets will giggle when the grass is tickling their armpits. ; )
Here is a reuters item about the Dutch Tulip Island.
http://www.reuters.com/news/video?videoId=72698&feedType=VideoRSS&feedName=TopNews&rpc=23&sp=true
SOUNDBITE: Joop Atsma, Christian Democrat MP, saying (Dutch):
“Our dykes need to be higher and our dunes must be fortified anyway, so I think that by working immediately on reclaiming new land, maybe you can also protect it against the sea, and develop two projects at the same time.”
Wow, it will be a amazing island, I personally like the idea of a island in Netherlands shape
hmmm, I don’t know. Would this help if the sea rises 6 meters, as projected in inconvenient truth?