The 32 kilometre Afsluitdijk isn’t just an incredibly long barrier connecting Friesland to Noord-Holland – it’s also an art installation, thanks to the work of Dutch designer Daan Roosegaarde. Now, he ...

The legendary 32km Dutch Afsluitdijk dike, built by hand in 1932, has not only been safeguarding the Netherlands from the North Sea for 85 years, but is also a solid verification of the nation’s ...

Built mostly by hand in 1932, the Afsluitdijk is a 32-kilometer-long dike that has protected the Netherlands from flooding for nearly a century. As part of a plan to renovate and strengthen the dike, ...

The Netherlands’ legendary Afsluitdijk dike has been in use for 85 years but it needed a renovation — so the Dutch government turned to designer Daan Roosegaarde for help. Studio Roosegaarde recently ...

Traffic on the Afsluitdijk was held up for several hours on Monday after a bridge failed to close. Long queues built up on the A7 motorway that runs over the dike heading from Friesland to ...

Antoine L'Estage and his codriver Alan Ockwell of the Yokohama Canada Rally Team won the 2014 edition of the Rallye Defi by winning every stage of the rally.

Countries around the globe and more specifically, governments and ministries of transportation, are continuously building new infrastructure for traveling, together with new means of transportation ...

‘Mijn geliefde plek op de Afsluitdijk is halverwege, bij Breezanddijk. Met de rug naar het IJsselmeer en de Waddenzee aan mijn voeten, daar ligt een van de donkerste plekken van ons land.” Kunstenaar ...

In the Netherlands, embankments such as the 32-km Afsluitdijk protect the Dutch against rising sea levels. Without them, some 12 million people – out of the country’s 17 million – could be flooded.

Rijkswaterstaat (part of the Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment and responsible for the design, construction, management and maintenance of the main infrastructure facilities in the ...