Meta-Housing: Super-Sized Hotel Made of Stacked-Up Homes

This new hotel in the Netherlands has sparked a great deal of conversation by using the traditional form of regional homes and cottages in a surrealistic stack (some even seeming to sit sideways or upside-down) as part of a relatively huge city-central structure.

The Inntel Hotel, designed by Molenaar & Van Winden Architecten + WAM Architecten features 160 rooms and sits 11 stories high, towering over much of its surroundings and sticking out for miles around – for better or worse – from its urban landscape. From their overall forms down to the white and green facades, wood-carved decor and window treatments, the component ‘houses’ in the design were patterned after actual conventional structures in the area.

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Land Carpet

Land Carpet is a modern area rug, inspired by nature and farmed landscapes. It shows the world from straight above, as we usually see it only out of the window of a plane. There are 4 versions: Europe, Africa, Netherlands and USA.

Get it here.

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Cardboard Box Bedding

Its called Le Clochard quilt cover. The idea is to "sleep under a cardboard box so a homeless young person doesn’t have to".
SZN, a foundation for homeless people in the Netherlands was selling these beddings to fund housing projects, help young people find work and continue their education.
Check it out here.