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Amsterdam guys build brown cafe in flat
Like countless others, twentysomethings Amsterdam residents Max and James really miss going to the cafe (pub/bar) and having a beer. So much so that they built their own Amsterdam-style cafe in their...
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Fish get an underwater doorbell in Utrecht
In Utrecht, fish and other swimming creatures have been given their own doorbell to alert humans that they are trying to get to their spawning grounds. Each spring thousands of fish make the journey...
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Zwolle liberator to get motorway named after him
On this day in 1945, Léo Major, the French Canadian soldier who single-handedly freed freed Zwolle, Overijssel, will have a 3.5 kilometre large section of motorway 371 in Québec named after him,...
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Dutch palace salon restored and modernised
Dutch King Willem Alexander and his family live in the royal palace Huis ten Bosch in The Hague, and greeting guests is often done in the DNA Salon. Dutch-British artist Jacob van der Beugel built the...
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Dutch brand Moooi produces ‘impossible’ flower chair
Dutch design brand Moooi has partnered with Argentinian 3D artist Andrés Reisinger to mass-produce his Hortensia chair, also known as “the chair that could not be made”. Back in 2018, Reisinger...
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First ever European tenants of 3D house in Eindhoven
On April 30, a retired Dutch couple from Amsterdam have become Europe’s first tenants of a fully 3D printed house in Eindhoven, Noord-Brabant, a cream coloured modern house with a bunker-like feel....
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Single mother turns to crowdfunding for house
It’s only getting tougher to find a house to buy in The Netherlands. There’s a lack of affordable houses, often bought up at hundreds of thousands of euro above the asking price (according to Dutch...
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This window sticker threatens to shoot you
Orangemaster and I came across this sticker on a window overlooking the back alley of taco bar Mr. Haz in the Jordaan neighbourhood of Amsterdam. It shows a drawing of a revolver pointed straight at...
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Sintel and Scales, a dark animated short about losing and finding your dragon
This 12 minute short film follows a young woman called Sintel as she tries to track down the creature that abducted her pet dragon, Scales. The indie was produced in 2011 in order to showcase the...
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Some of 24 Oranges’ most memorable posts
We started 24 Oranges in February 2007 and in late January 2022 it will become a column over at DutchNews.nl, also called 24 Oranges. After 4,100 posts under our belts, we might feel the need to post...
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