Designer Piet Boon is co-founder of Oostzaan-based exterior, interior and product design multidisciplinary Studio Piet Boon.
Boon considers he owes his love for craftsmanship and natural materials as well as inspiration, to the traditionally creative and entrepreneurial spirit of his homeland and family upbringing. He began his career as a building contractor after which he developed his construction company into the multidisciplinary design studio.
Over the years Studio Piet Boon has grown into a globally operating design company, delivering exterior, interior, and product design for residential and corporate clients.
Studio Piet Boon is a globally operating studio. The multidisciplinary team designs acclaimed private homes, residential and corporate developments, hospitality experiences and an extensive range of products. Studio Piet Boon was founded in 1983 by Piet Boon and Karin Meyn in Oostzaan, the Netherlands.
National Library of New Zealand
Group Captain Leonard Henry Trent whose Victoria Cross is on display in the RNZAF Museum in Christchurch this month.
A Victoria Cross awarded to Nelson-born Squadron Leader (and later Group Captain) Leonard Henry Trent VC DFC (RAF 36146) is on public display for the first time. It’s the only VC in the RNZAF Museum of New Zealand collection at Wigram, Christchurch. The precious medal, which will be on display until May 9, was donated to the museum along with Trent’s nine other medals by his family after his death in 1986. A quiet and unassuming man, Trent disliked the fuss that the award caused and remained uncomfortable with the publicity and his renown as a war hero, always stressing the vital contribution of his aircrew and making a point of quietly visiting the families of those who gave their lives.
Ij lake, Amsterdam, 2013
Amsterdam’s Next Data Center Clusters Will Be Built Out of Town The city is out of space and power, and there are signs of government and industry agreement on a new location. Now, they have to convince the public.
Amsterdam is preparing to build its next cluster of data centers in a neighboring county, after officials and experts concluded that the capital does not have the space to accommodate the mushrooming number of gigantic hi-tech warehouses nor the electricity to satisfy their extraordinary power load.
The group that effectively made the decision has been tackling the dilemma of where to put Amsterdam s data centers for the last three years. Pending a final, formal decision, they will be built in Almere and Zeewolde, counties wrought from the sea with dam walls on Amsterdam s Eastern flank in the 1960s. Their spacious province, Flevoland, has become home to growing wind farms and new towns. Official studies have declared it the best spot