Winy Maas discusses the plan: “We dream of making green cities. City that is literally green as well as ecological. A city that produces food and energy, cleans its own water, recycles waste and holds ...

Dutch architects MVRDV have proposed extending the city of Almere into a lake by building a square-shaped artificial peninsula covered in gardens (+ slideshow). The 45 hectare extension is part of the ...

A Dutch community encourages residents to design their own houses, and much more. Almere Oosterwold, east of Amsterdam, has about 1,000 completed houses. It is the first of four planned “garden cities ...

With a hotchpotch of neighbourhoods focused on innovative architecture, sustainability and social enrichment, can Almere give us a glimpse of what living in cities could be like in years to come? A ...

The first person to make Almere her home died at the weekend at the age of 90 local broadcaster Omroep Flevoland reported. Lia de Clerk moved from Amsterdam to the newly created town of Almere in ...

For custom-build and self-build housing to take off in Britain, we should look to our European neighbours for inspiration While custom-build and self-build housing cannot single-handedly solve the ...