Without a doubt, one of Amsterdam’s greatest and iconic features are it’s bridges. Counting over a 1500 bridges and 165 canals, the oldest canal bridge of Amsterdam dates back to 1649. After the first bridge, many new ones followed, designed, built and renovated by architects such as Piet Kramer or G.F.Janssonius. Yet today, we have

Are you a Brit, thinking of buying a property in Amsterdam? If so, you’ll be pleased to know that buying your ideal Dutch property will now leave less of a dent in your bank balance. This is because the pound to euro exchange rate recently hit a 7.5-year high, at 1.4256, its strongest since November

The city centre is packed with facades and ornaments that might date back until 400 years ago. Decorated facades have been one of the most important elements in the Amsterdam architecture. Unfortunately since the twentieth century house front decoration slowly lost its ornament function. Luckily many of the beautiful historical city fineries are perfectly preserved

The 19th, 20th and 21st of June 2015 29 citizens of Amsterdam will open their (secret) gardens to the public for us to completely forget that we are in the center of a noisy, vibrant city. ‘Open Tuinen Days‘ is all about door-to-door wanderings to find lush, floral gardens behind the grand facades of the

An entire office space made out of actual cardboard. Dutch company Nothing, an Amsterdam-Based firm whom had their interior designed by the world-wide recognized Dutch designers Joost van Bleiswijk and Alrik Koudenburg. The office’s signature style is timeless and classic, and it was modeled after van Bleiswijk’s “no glue, no screw” design ethos, where the

  The classy department store has designed a great loft-ish house slash studio in the tower of the Bijenkorf building, which overlooks the Dam square, in collaboration with the Rijksmuseum. Room on the Roof will be available for artists, writers, musicians, architects and designers for a certain period of time. The artists will be working

  Old Masters by New Masters is about three talented urban street artists whom have recreated pieces of Rembrandt, Frans Hals and Willem van de Velde in the streets of Amsterdam.  One of the main sponsors, ING wants to bring the art and culture from the Rijksmuseum to a broad audience and also closer to

  A greenhouse pavilion in Amsterdam will be permanently showcasing real-life historical vegetables – that are being depicted on Rijksmuseums Masterpieces. On the Weteringschans, flanked by monumental buildings, a plot of land has been un-used for decades. Originally a public garden with vistas of the Singelgracht and the Barlaeus Grammar School, this prime land in the

Besides our great museums, tulips, cheese and bikes, Amsterdam also has an amazing variety of popular must-see houses you should check out while visiting. One of the houses you must see is the 3D Print Canal House. This is no ordinary canal house: instead of bricks and cement, this house is made of plastic and

Amsterdam’s city archive and The Maria Austria Institute just released an enormous collection of old pictures of Amsterdam, chronicling the lifestyle and changes in the city.  The collection also contains a lot of old pictures of the Jordaan, so you can browse through all the streets and canals to see how they looked liked in

For those who are part of the “flexi/vegan/tarian” movement, or simply just are interested in trying something new, the “Vegetarian Butcher” IS the up and coming place to visit. De “Vegetarische Slager” (as pronounced in Dutch) is a “butcher” who makes vegetarian meat and other products that give you a feeling of eating meat but

Karim adduchi will have a solo exhibition at print gallery, displaying a series of paintings which reveal his personal and somewhat utopian reflection upon life. Karim, originally from Morocco, grew up in barcelona but decided to study arts in Amsterdam. His parents were both tailors, obliged to seek a better future in Europe. Because of

If you’re familiar with Dutch fashion brand Scotch & Soda you already know they sell amazing clothes, big wool cardigans, the most beautiful denims in their characteristic stores.  However, since this week Scotch & Soda has launched something completely different; a web shop selling amazing vintage finds from all over the world. A team of

The design store/hotel “Droog” in Amsterdam presents an exhibition based on the recycle work of Re-Do, a London design studio focused on developing alternative designs to mass production house-hold items. In response to people’s readiness to throw away cheap household appliances that are still fully functional, designers Gaspard Tiné-Berès and Tristan Kopp re-develop thrown away

The Dutch newspaper “Volkskrant” also has their pretty cool artsy/fashion/opinion weekend edition called “the Volkskrant magazine”. In it, every week, the magazine features a spread of different individuals in their own spaces. It doesn’t matter what kind of interior this is, as long as the people in it are special. They are discovered and ‘action

                            Nestled away in the Wolvenstraat, Haarbarbaar is the newest and hippest retro men’s barber shop is in the Negen Straatjes (9 streets.) The trendy barber offers bourbon, traditional haircuts and hot towel straight razor shaves, a great music selection, and stylish