The Water Circles concept involves converting old oil platforms into desalination plants. The water can be sent to arid countries or used for the food industry on site. (Illustration by YoungWan Kim / SueHwan Kwun / JunYoung Park / JoongHa Park / eVolo.)
490 thousand square meters - this is how long this kind of terminal occupies, capable of receiving three cruise ships at the same time. It offers rooms with ocean views, shops and restaurants. Smaller vessels will be able to enter the inner "harbor". 10% of the roofs will be covered with photovoltaic cells, Dutch designers from Waterstudio. NL promise, who have already begun, among other things, to create a floating city near The Hague and are developing projects for the Maldives, China and the UAE. (Illustration by Koen Olthius / Dutch Docklands.)
The Citadel is scheduled for completion in 2014. According to an architect named Kuhn Olthuis of Waterstudio. NL, the 60-apartment complex in the Dutch city of Westland, near The Hague, will be the first of its kind in Europe. It is designed to protect residents from flooding, which is not so rare in this country: there are more than 3,500 lowlands in the Netherlands, which are filled with water during rains, high tides and rising sea levels. These polders have to be drained using pumps. Houseboats are not uncommon there, but Citadel will be the first example of dense residential development in a polder. The building's floating foundation will be connected by a floating road to a higher place. At the same time, the Citadel and its five planned neighbors will consume a quarter less energy than conventional buildings. (Illustration by Koen Olthius.)
And this floating hotel and convention center called the Greenstar will open in 2014 in the Maldives. This is the lowest country in the world, that is, if the sea level rises, it will be washed away first. The conferences will be able to participate up to two thousand people, and eight hundred of them can be accommodated in comfortable rooms. Waterstudio. NL hopes this place will be suitable for climate negotiations. (Illustration by Koen Olthius.)
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