Dutch Design Week 2013: designer Christien Meindertsma has compiled photographs of hundreds of jumpers knitted by an elderly woman into a book and organised a flashmob in her honour (+ movie). More about The knitting collection of Loes Veenstra by Christien Meindertsma
Dutch Design Week 2013: Dutch artist Arne Hendriks proposes shrinking the human population to an average height of 50 centimetres as a way to reduce the amount of food and natural resources we consume. More about The Incredible Shrinking Man by Arne Hendriks
Dezeen and MINI World Tour: the penultimate stop on our Dezeen and MINI World tour is Eindhoven. In our first video report from the city, co-founder of Dutch Design Week Miriam van der Lubbe explains how the small industrial town has become one of the leading centres for design and technology in the world. More about "Eindhoven has design, it has science and it has industry"
Untreated timber cladding and angular dormer windows feature at this small housing development in Amsterdam by Dutch studio M3H Architecten (+ slideshow). More about Wooden Houses in Amsterdam by M3H Architecten
Dutch Design Week 2013: designer Daan Roosegaarde has unveiled a "Lego from Mars" installation consisting of hundreds of wireless LED crystals that light up when placed on the floor (+ movie). More about Crystal wireless LED installation by Studio Roosegaarde
This L-shaped wooden house by Dutch studio Pasel Kuenzel Architects sits at the water's edge on an artificial island in Amsterdam. More about Urban Villa in Amsterdam by Pasel Kuenzel Architects
Dutch studio KoningEllis Architects used a combination of grey slate, warm timber and shimmering aluminium for the walls of a new building at this school for children with learning disabilities in Haarlem, the Netherlands (+ slideshow). More about Daaf Geluk School by KoningEllis Architects
Here's another project from Dutch firm Mecanoo: a sports college in Eindhoven featuring a black brick exterior with perforations in the shape of athletes (+ slideshow). More about Fontys Sports College by Mecanoo
This maritime museum in the Netherlands by Dutch studio Mecanoo features reclaimed wooden cladding and a zig-zagging roof that reference the gabled houses of the surrounding hamlet (+ slideshow). More about Kaap Skil Maritime and Beachcombers Museum by Mecanoo
Rotterdam studio Kraaijvanger has added two new buildings to a school in a suburb of Dutch city, The Hague, with pitched roofs and rustic materials that reference the site's original role as a farm (+ slideshow). More about Early Childhood Centre in Wassenaar by Kraaijvanger
This riverside holiday house in South Limburg, the Netherlands, is raised on tree trunks to prevent flooding and clad with charred wood to reduce the need for maintenance (+ slideshow). More about Sustainable house on the Geul by Upfrnt and Zwarthout
Dutch architects Jetty and Maarten Min have completed their own house and studio in North Holland with an arched rooftop, tiled walls and exposed tree-trunk columns (+ slideshow). More about The Dune House by Min2
Dutch studio Personal Architecture has renovated one of Piet Bloms' iconic Cube Houses in Rotterdam to create a residence for delinquents in their final stages of detention (+ slideshow). More about Renovation of Piet Bloms' Supercube by Personal Architecture
Dutch firm Lagado Architects have designed a temporary public toilet block with wide open sections in the roof so users can sit on the toilet and look up into the sky (+ slideshow). More about Easehouse for Singeldingen Foundation by Lagado Architects
This bright red tower resembling the head and neck of a monster was constructed by Dutch designer Frank Havermans as the beacon for a fire station in a small Dutch town. More about KAPKAR / BB-N34 by Frank Havermans
The Andaz Hotel in Amsterdam by Dutch designer Marcel Wanders features chandeliers encased inside huge bells and wallpaper that combines fish with cutlery (+ slideshow). More about Andaz Amsterdam Prinsengracht Hotel by Marcel Wanders
Trend forcaster Li Edelkoort shows there is more to fetishism than just bondage with garments displayed at this year's MoBA 2013 fashion biennale in Arnhem, the Netherlands (+ slideshow). More about Fetishism in Fashion at MoBA 2013
News: the fictional bridges depicted on Euro banknotes have been been transformed into reality at a new housing development near Rotterdam. More about Fictional bridges on Euro banknotes constructed in the Netherlands
Dutch design office Rietveld Landscape has built an arched foam screen with hundreds of building-shaped holes inside a disused chapel at the Centraal Museum in Utrecht (+ slideshow). More about Pretty Vacant by Rietveld Landscape
London firm Tony Fretton has sandwiched two rows of brick houses between a pair of canals in the town of Den Helder in the Netherlands (+ slideshow). More about Houses in Molenplein by Tony Fretton Architects