In a corner of the Rijksmuseum hangs a seventeenth-century cityscape by the Dutch Golden Age painter Gerrit Berckheyde, “View of the Golden Bend in the Herengracht,” which depicts the construction of ...

There are moments when time and place collapse. The past and present merge. Something new feels strangely familiar. The debut of the Floating Museum’s latest project, for Mecca, conjures the past and ...

Can floating cities be the solution to rising sea levels? Can architecture prepare in advance for coastal changes? We explore a few ways that our cities are, or should be, interacting with water.

The Netherlands has always lived with water. A large part of the country is lower than sea level. Rivers, canals, and ...