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Prices are monitored by Supermarktscanner.nl The price survey is conducted at the end of the week Avocado Click here to enlarge Hoogvliet offers a remarkably competitive deal on avocados in week 17 with the fruit listed online for just under one euro Other supermarkets maintain stable prices ranging between 1.19 euros and 1.59 euros Cauliflower Click here to enlarge Price differences for cauliflower remain small ranging between 1.99 euros and 2.05 euros each Jumbo highlights cauliflower with a 13% discount Galia melon Click here to enlarge Supermarkets have not changed their Galia melon prices in week 17 Hoogvliet featured the melon in a promotion they stand out because Galia melons are not available online Oranges net 2 kg Click here to enlarge Prices for a 2 kg net of oranges are identical at national supermarkets Albert Heijn Dirk (2.99 euros) and Hoogvliet (3.19 euros) are the exceptions Cucumber Click here to enlarge and Hoogvliet price cucumbers at 85 cents each Vine tomatoes Click here to enlarge and the price has returned to the previous level of 1.29 euros per 500 grams of loose vine tomatoes Price and qualityPrice data is sourced from Supermarktscanner.nl and is based on online prices at the webshops of Albert Heijn This price comparison does not account for origin or quality as most supermarkets do not disclose this information online Hoogvliet and Jumbo do mention the country of origin It is possible that the price comparison above includes unripe avocados versus ripe ones or Spanish cucumbers versus Dutch cucumbers Notes on the dataVomar uses fixed online prices Avocados have been absent from Vomar's online assortment since week 24 of 2022 and prices are adjusted to a 2 kg equivalent for comparison Jumbo only sells packaged vine tomatoes in packs of five rather than by 500g or kilogram; for comparison purposes an average weight of 100g per tomato is used For more information:www.supermarktscanner.nl Frontpage photo: © Supermarktscanner.nl FreshPublishers © 2005-2025 FreshPlaza.com as the building was unoccupied at the time The Rotterdam Fire Brigade arrived in large numbers to combat the blaze which had already spread rapidly due to rows of industrial washing machines catching fire early in the incident “There was an entire row of machines on fire,” said Rick de Koning, owner of Textiel Services, visibly distraught as he paced near the burning building, AD reported The Rotterdam safety region classified the fire as a "very large fire," requiring multiple fire and emergency services on-site The scene remained active throughout the night The fire produced significant amounts of smoke that spread over the surrounding area Local safety officials warned residents to keep windows and doors closed and turn off ventilation systems to avoid exposure to the smoke Firefighters worked to prevent the flames from spreading to adjacent buildings and successfully contained the fire to the Textiel Services property the company’s facilities were declared a total loss parts of the building had to be demolished Authorities confirmed there were no injuries and the investigation into the cause of the fire is ongoing Witnesses reported seeing the glow of the flames from a distance Employees from nearby businesses also gathered at the scene some fearing their own workplaces had caught fire Employees of the company, which has a staff of 60, stood outside in shock. Several were in tears as they watched the building burn. De Koning, who founded the company 25 years ago, said he has no idea how the fire could have started. “We had excellent security measures in place,” he said. “I started this company with nothing, and now I have nothing again.” © 2012-2025, NL Times, All rights reserved. melding urgent environmental inquiry with an engineer’s design sense and an artist’s inspired creativity so I wanted to work on things you can actually use,” Hoogvliet says the more important the story behind the project has become and I think that’s more part of being an artist.” The seeds of Hoogvliet’s passions were sown early on “As a child I was already quite activistic,” Hoogvliet says “I was trying to convince people not to use products tested on animals the Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam—for Hoogvliet to realize how design could be used to “tell the story of things that I think are a bit problematic.” "This is a sample for the Kaumera Kimono a design I made in collaboration with the Dutch Water Authorities," Hoogvliet says all reclaimed materials from (sewage) wastewater." "[These are] samples from my new project H.E.R.B.S., dyed with different herbs (Rosemary, Chamomile and Sage) to see if these natural dyes can benefit our health by releasing medicinal substances to our skin. The fabric in the background is linen dyed with Sage, the pinks yarns are wool dyed with Rosemary and the silk (top left) is green/yellow from Chamomile." It could be argued that Hoogvliet is never not working; when she isn’t physically in her studio, hand-weaving a garment or mixing pigments, she’s gathering inspiration. “I’m always looking at the structures of materials, or in nature,” Hoogvliet says, “and I try to analyze the shapes.” That impulse is especially strong when she’s down by the sea. “I love to go to the beach, but when I’m at the beach, I’m always looking for seaweed,” Hoogvliet laughs. Based in The Hague, in The Netherlands, Studio Nienke Hoogvliet is a design studio specializing in material research Nienke Hoogvliet founded the studio in 2013 and has since been joined by Tim Jongerius The pair now engage in freelance projects as well as self-initiated research and design projects that raise awareness of social and environmental problems in the textile By creating innovative material alternatives they hope to change both perspectives and systems education and background in terms of how you first became interested in creativity This is where my love for the beach and the sea started My mom was always making things: sewing my clothes building new closets or painting something a new color I inherited her love of textiles and making she taught me how to use the sewing machine and my creativity could then flow freely didn’t want to eat meat from the age of seven… Later I went to the Willem de Kooning Academy – an art school in Rotterdam – and there I learned more about concept development I also realized that art or design can be a way to raise awareness and to tell stories I decided that I wanted to have my own design studio and show the world how I started Studio Nienke Hoogvliet immediately after graduating in 2013 I was already fascinated by how things work When I was driving with my parents along the highway I could remember every building project there and could explain the progress they had made since the last time we passed it This way of looking at things developed into questioning things: “Why are things the way they are?” and “Can’t we do better?” At the faculty of Architecture of TU Delft I developed my ‘research and design for a better world’ mentality further Nienke and I met each other in 2005 (at high school!) and since that time we have grown together and embraced the idea that design is the way to change perspectives How would you describe your SEA ME and RE-SEA ME projects SEA ME is an ongoing research project into how seaweed could be used as a sustainable alternative for textiles and dyes knotted by hand into a discarded fishing net to show the duality of the pollution of the ocean and all the beauty and solutions it could offer it doesn’t need freshwater or pesticides or insecticides to grow and it doesn’t take up agricultural land RE-SEA ME is another research project into which sustainable materials can be created from the ocean Fish skin is often wasted by the fishing industry and it can be turned into beautiful leather This project wants to raise awareness for the same topic as SEA ME but it shows another potentially sustainable material from the sea hand-sewn in a discarded fishing net to show the continuation of the topic It’s one of the amazing qualities that fish leather is actually stronger than ‘regular’ leather since fish have a different type of connective tissue to stop polluting and to see their beauty and potential What waste (and other) materials are you using how did you select those particular materials and how do you source them we have also collaborated with the Dutch Water Authorities to work with materials reclaimed or created from wastewater These include reclaimed toilet paper and bio-plastic made from the bacteria that clean the wastewater Those collaborations were super interesting and we never expected that even wastewater could be such an interesting source of raw materials that even such strange – and let’s be honest dirty the change to recycling more materials would be easier to make When did you first become interested in using waste as raw material and what motivated this decision It was never our goal to use waste – we work from a holistic point of view which means that we try to take all aspects around a production process into consideration That often leads to the realization that somewhere in the process What processes do the materials have to undergo to become the finished product The fish skin is turned into leather through natural tanning so everyone can learn how to do it and it’s actually very easy – it just requires oils and lots of manual labor it requires machines and cannot be done by hand But the waste from one process can be used for another application The seating of the chair is made from seaweed yarn the ‘waste’ of that process is made into a textile dye and is used to dye the seating the leftovers of the dyeing process are used to create a regular paint for the tabletop We fully use the seaweed and have no waste left What happens to your products at the end of their life – can they go back into the circular economy When they cannot be re-used or recycled anymore they can be composted and this way they can become food for the soil again How did you feel the first time you saw the transformation from waste material to product/prototype When you are doing research and experimenting the change from waste material to product happens slowly and gradually you are only paying attention to all the things that don’t work When you are mastering a material more and more you start to see the potential and that’s when you get excited Nienke is scared of fish and during the tanning sometimes she still feels a bit disgusted it feels great to have given value back to something Everyone always wonders if the products smell (they don’t!) and they are amazed by the qualities and properties of the materials We think we have changed a lot of perspectives and are looking forward to continuing to do that with all our projects How do you feel opinions towards waste as a raw material are changing More and more people realize that we cannot maintain this linear economy and that we have to look into the possibilities of waste as a material more people understand that – and why – we should move towards a circular economy it’s about looking at processes with the aim to not exhaust the planet We can see that awareness is starting to arise What do you think the future holds for waste as a raw material We hope that it will become normal to use waste as a raw material and that there will be no more waste – just more resources Katie Treggiden is a purpose-driven journalist podcaster championing a circular approach to design – because Planet Earth needs better stories She is also the founder and director of Making Design Circular a program and membership community for designer-makers who want to join the circular economy With 20 years' experience in the creative industries she regularly contributes to publications such as The Guardian Crafts Magazine and Monocle24 – as well as being Editor at Large for Design Milk She is currently exploring the question ‘can craft save the world?’ through an emerging body of work that includes her fifth book Wasted: When Trash Becomes Treasure (Ludion FiiO'S sub-brand Snowsky has launched the Retro Nano user-friendly vinyl flattening machine that restores warped records to their original shape using precision heat technology Zaha Hadid Architects transforms public transit at the KAFD Metro Station in Riyadh with futuristic architecture Full of natural materials and respect for modern Swedish design the STOCKHOLM 2025 collection from IKEA debuts 96 new pieces You’ll always hear it from Design Milk first Our passion is discovering and highlighting emerging talent and we’re energized by and for our community of like-minded design lovers — like you hoogvliet hopes her projects can contribute to a more sustainable product and textile industry known for her material research, experimental and conceptual design hoogvliet conducts research to inform self-initiated design projects. in her projects SEA ME and the SEA ME collection she researched how seaweed can contribute to a more sustainable textile industry. SEA ME – a rug made of sea algae yarn knotted by hand in an old fishing net – hopes to draw attention to this unusual material by capturing the contrast between the polluting plastic waste issues and the beautiful things the sea has to offer the SEA ME rug was made of sea algae yarn hoogvliet suggests the yarn could offer a solution for the sustainability issues in the textile industry by offering an alternative to cotton. whilst researching into this material she has discovered that sea algae grow much faster and need less nutrients hoogvliet discovered sea algae grow much faster than cotton continuing her research for materials out of the sea and repurposing fish skin in this particular exploration the designer went to fish shops to collect their waste fish skins and discovered a way of tanning the skins without chemicals nienke designed a small stool with fish leather seating processes that have proven their ability to be scaled upwards. in creating this particular product – which uses salmon skin – nienke learnt that the tanning process she applied can be produced at a larger scale something she hopes makes it a more viable option for the industry hoogvliet researched into tanning processes to create the chair RE-SEA ME video by studio nienke hoogvliet the chair features leather made from fish skin this year nienke has decided to share this leather tanning process in her new book ‘fish Leather’ in the hope more waste will be used and more people will be inspired by this beautiful and interesting material. the book is a second edition to the designer’s research into seaweed encompassed in her SEA ME and RE-SEA ME projects in 2016, the designer presented ‘waterschatten’ – a mini-collection of products using repurposed and recycled material – as part of dutch design week 2016. the collection included a large dining table a set of pendant lights and a range of bowls out of toilet paper aiming to combat negative associations with the material toilet paper products featured bowls upon a large table hoogvliet combined the paper with brass accents which concealed drawers and runs within the tabletop the collection was made in partnership with the dutch water authorities who have been experimenting with recovering valuable energy and raw materials from wastewater as well as reclaiming phosphates and other materials the table featured a mini-exhibition exploring materials AXOR presents three bathroom concepts that are not merely places of function but destinations in themselves — sanctuaries of style ’Natural dye with seaweed offers a wide variety of colours,’ Hoogvliet says of the dying process offers a colour range from greens and browns to pinks and purples The waste from these processes is then repurposed into a paint which coats the collection’s tabletop This collection is the next step for Hoogvliet who ’would love to see a future with a more sustainable textile industry and full use of the seaweed potentials’ For more information, visit Studio Nienke Hoogvliet’s website escapism and design stories from around the world direct to your inbox Hoogvliet herself feels a connection with the ocean, which led to most of her research projects that have contributed to a more sustainable lifestyle industry, especially through her work with repurposed ocean flora. The work of the studio has been exhibited worldwide in institutions like The Centre Pompidou in Paris, and London’s Victoria and Albert Museum. Here is a look at some of their stand out products— The Sea Me rug is crafted out of sea algae yarn knotted into an old fishing net Made of sea algae yarn, Sea Me is a rug which is knotted by hand in an old fishing net, plugging a sustainability gap in the textile industry. The idea behind this product is to address a broad range of issues surrounding plastic waste contamination that impacts underwater flora and fauna. To recognize its multifunctionality, Hoogvliet has used an old fishing net as the base for the rug. This is a clever example of reusing waste to fulfil both aesthetic and functional needs. Sea Me CollectionThe products in this collection have immense potential to become fixtures in our homes in the future. Hoogvliet has designed a chair made of seaweed yarn that is dyed naturally with seaweed. This piece of functional art has a soft, hand-woven seating integrated into it. A coat of regular paint on the tabletop is made from the leftovers of this process. The waste was also used to make bio-plastic bowls. The H.E.R.B.S. installation shows how dye can be used on fabrics that one wears at home or outside. It aims to change your perspective on the clothes you wear by urging you to upcycle them when they wear out. Textiles can be dyed with essential oils using a specific dyeing process, and Hoogvliet has employed this technique along with herbal dyed samples that were tested in a laboratory to create her products. The designer has used natural linen from By Mölle, which is a fabric that doesn’t use pesticides or irrigation and is manufactured in Europe. The dyed linen is then used as a quilt to sleep under. It is hand embroidered with herbal-dyed yarn that is used to calm your head, body, and feet. This product also raises awareness about textiles using harmful chemicals that can cause disorders and diseases. This piece of clothing comes from Kaumera—a bio-based raw material extracted from waste water—which contributes to reducing ecological damage in the era of fast fashion. Hoogvliet aims for consumers to value the textile, as this material is also a good absorbent for dyes like anammox and vivianite, which require less water for production. Kimono is an important part of Japanese culture, and the idea behind the Kaumera Kimono is to stimulate consumers to lean towards sustainable fashion. The patterns on the blanket are hand-drawn, which lends it a unique irregularity and rawness. It is made of natural materials like mohair, linen, and cotton. After weaving the grey blanket with fill yarn, it is steamed to activate the fabric along with a hand-sewn silk border. The material on this site may not be reproduced except with the prior written permission of Condé Nast The driver of a car with four children inside of it is accused of stabbing a man in Rotterdam in the evening hours of Thursday to Friday after the car had ended up on its side A woman who tried to free the children from the car was also injured and is currently in the hospital Police have said that the four children are unharmed Emergency services were warned about an accident on the Steurweg in the area of Hoogvliet at around 3 a.m Police gave no information regarding the age of the children or whether the man is their father or carer A police spokesperson shared that the children had been taken in by a relative after the incident The car ended up on its side because the driver lost control of the wheel The driver then got out of the car before an argument ensued with another man That man was then stabbed by the driver before the culprit fled the scene The woman who was injured during her attempts to free the children was a bystander in the situation located just outside of rotterdam in the netherlands, ‘campus hoogvliet’ is a cluster of buildings that together compose one diverse, yet united project. designed by wiel arets architects the six structures include a sports center immediate surroundings are characterized by mid-twentieth century housing developments the scheme aims to rectify the social and cultural deterioration that coupled the demolition of this once historic village glazing surrounding every building is fritted with an abstracted so as to create an exterior terrace that is both transparent and private a white ring surrounds each structure and denotes the transition from public tarmac to private terrace each programmed with bike parking and play areas. the sports center seats 300 people and overlooks the multi-purpose activity space which functions as an exercise area for students this volume is the largest of the campus’ six buildings and has been elevated in order to accommodate a parking garage an outdoor basketball court occupies the roof of the sports center’s ground floor perpendicular to a monumental staircase that enables views across the site internal balustrades are finished with colored glass unique to each building custom-designed white terrazzo seating dots the campus’ programmed tarmac and japanese maples set in custom-designed black terrazzo planters permeate each fenced terrace is illuminated at night uniting the campus sportsize: 41,100 sqmdate of design: 2007-2009date of completion: 2014project team: wiel arets mai henriksencollaborators: jochem homminga anne-marie diderichclient: woonbronconsultants: ABT BV the method which hoogvliet utilizes, gives the skin a strong and leather-like texture the unique project marries textile, product and sustainable design into one with hopes to raise awareness and highlight the beauty of these ocean materials to influence people to reuse them more often. the salmon embodies an interesting texture and monochromatic tone the same method with any type of fish skin can be used the waste material is tanned into leather – referencing traditional methods – without the use of chemicals the rug uses a disposed fishing net with the scale-like material sewn on close-up of the ‘leather’ used in the rug the designer sourced the skin from fish shops happening now! partnering with antonio citterio, AXOR presents three bathroom concepts that are not merely places of function, but destinations in themselves — sanctuaries of style, context, and personal expression. News & Analysis on Food & Beverage Development & Technology 22-Dec-2022 Last updated on 22-Dec-2022 at 13:45 GMT Wasteless uses dynamic pricing to incentivise consumers to buy soon-to-expire products and thus help cut down on food waste. It comes as the recent COP15 biodiversity agreement deal struck in Montreal included a target to cut global food waste in half and ‘significantly reduce overconsumption and waste generation’. The COP27 Climate Conference held in November in Egypt also included a pledge to accelerate action to reduce food loss and waste worldwide. Six percent of the European continent’s greenhouse gas emissions are a result of food waste, as the continent alone lets food costing €143 billion go to waste every year, according to the EU Food Loss and Waste Prevention Hub. Weighing in at 153 million tons of food, that’s equivalent to all its imports. “The EU's supermarkets alone are responsible for nearly 7% of all food waste, leading to more than 15 million tons of greenhouse gas emissions,” said Oded Omer, Co-Founder and CEO of Wasteless. “By the time this waste occurs, all the energy and resources have already gone into the food. It’s the most costly waste we’re creating – indeed it’s costing each store up to 4% of their revenues." Wasteless said that current approaches to food waste do little to address the causes of this waste nor do they offer a solution that impacts business and consumer behaviour on a sufficient scale. On top of that, current price reduction systems are unattractive and hard to manage effectively, so shoppers continue to hunt out the freshest perishables at the expense of the environment. Founded in 2017 and with operations throughout Europe and US, Wasteless said its markdown technology in Hoogvliet’s existing store operations mean the supermarket is on track in the immediate term to cut waste and markdown costs by 30% and 50% respectively. Hoogvliet’s perishables sections in its 71 stores comprise approximately 3,000 SKUs, and Wasteless’ technology will help the company reduce the category’s carbon emissions and help Hoogvliet recover up to 4% of its revenues lost to discarded food. Wasteless further claims that hundreds of its partner stores have experienced a 39% decrease in food waste, as well as a 40% increase in revenue. The ‘magic sachets’ combatting food waste by keeping food fresher for longer10-Nov-2022By Oliver MorrisonA Spanish company has invented a solution to food waste by keeping fruit and vegetables fresher for longer. Recent success for Welsh food and drink as it targets international marketsPaid for and content provided by Welsh Government Mastering mouthfeel: The importance of mouthfeel in making brands thrivePaid for and in partnership with Tate & Lyle Rethinking eggs for a resilient food future a ‘matter of necessity’Paid for and content provided by CSM Group (CSM Ingredients & HIFOOD) The creative duo from Arnhem (Netherlands) specializes in experimenting with new techniques to explore the boundaries of craftsmanship and production Ruben Hoogvliet and Gijs Wouters are the founders of Atelier Fig a dynamic collaboration that sprung during their study period at ArtEZ Academy in Arnhem Atelier Fig’s original creations delve into the art design sector aiming playfully to meet the contemporary desire for new and personalized products The creative duo specializes in crafting unique objects and accessories where the aesthetics encapsulate the tactile experience and experimental process of their projects The studio’s method seeks to investigate the limits of craftsmanship and production to find the boundary of what can be achieved: Atelier Fig aims to crystallize in its objects the act of transformation and sensitivity to the context in which it operates An example of their creativity is the recent Gravity Collection a series of works—made to order—using liquid clay not employing plaster molds but a new technique: objects are created by exploiting a shape immersed in clay that absorbs moisture and is then left to dry without the use of kilns and subject to gravity A process capable of revealing the unexpected effect of natural forces that always results differently from the previous one Atelier Fig received the Rising Talent Award at the Maison & Objet fair and has already embarked on several international collaborations and partnerships with brands like Vitra and B&B Italia The largest diffusion magazine in the luxury & design world Privacy Policy(function (w,d) {var loader = function () {var s = d.createElement("script") tag = d.getElementsByTagName("script")[0]; s.src="https://cdn.iubenda.com/iubenda.js"; tag.parentNode.insertBefore(s,tag);}; if(w.addEventListener){w.addEventListener("load" false);}else if(w.attachEvent){w.attachEvent("onload" loader);}else{w.onload = loader;}})(window This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks The action you just performed triggered the security solution There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase You can email the site owner to let them know you were blocked Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page The brand Zeefier creates natural dyes made entirely from seaweed Nienke Hoogvliet and Anne Boermans have been researching how to create sustainable and eco-friendly textile dyes and during the past eight years they have tried different types of seaweed. The seaweed dyes act as an alternative to the traditional dyes which are chemical-heavy and artificial They hope that their company Zeefier can scale up the production of seaweed dyes and make the fashion industry a bit more sustainable The Dutch Design Week was held last month in Eindhoven and during the week Zeefier presented the range of colors they’ve created using seaweed dye Zeefier’s dyes are made from seaweed waste streams which is the recycled seaweed leftover from the food or cosmetic industry Using seaweed as an alternative has gotten a lot of attention as of late because it produces oxygen and absorbs carbon dioxide while growing Some of the challenges the team faces are that the natural color subtly changes over time and that it can only be used on natural fabric (such as wool and cotton) releases microplastic in the washing machine and while wearing it the fashion industry should be leaning more towards using natural fabrics only Hoogvliet believes there is a market for natural dyes especially as more brands look for ways to cut their environmental impact The company has yet to release any of their dyes but the duo hopes to one day work with high-end fashion labels is to begin supplying high-street fashion brands with their seaweed dyes you help in the creation and sharing of fact-based optimistic news all over the world Scientists have measured the energy levels of electrons in a new quantum material and discovered that they follow a fractal pattern known as "Hofstadter's butterfly." It has been theoretically predicted since 1976 but has now been directly observed for the first time in a real material Solar energy and battery storage will account for 81 percent of the total capacity increase with solar energy representing over 50 percent The US will decommission twice as much coal power capacity this year compared to last year Broadband Jesus waited until one week after Easter to resurrect By subscribing, I confirm that I've read and agree to the Cookies & Privacy Policy. “It’s not quite Psychedelic Brutalism but it’s aspiring to be something like that,” says Sam Jacob of FAT Architecture and Taste responsible for “The Villa” a new community centre on the outskirts of Rotterdam which blends flamboyant civic ambition with prosaic budget reality Deep in the industrial hinterland of the city’s sprawling port sandwiched in a reluctant buffer zone between the world’s largest chemical plant and an ailing 1950s suburb FAT has been working to develop a new civic hub conference centre and community cafe in one the souped-up Wendy house sits in its own expansive grounds in a surreal interpretation of the Dutch heerlijkheid appropriated in cartoon style for the common good “It’s a stately home for the community,” says Jacob “but it’s built out of tarmac and grass in the cheapest way possible.” And it looks a bit like the lord of the manor went to Ikea on LSD The project is the largest and most visible part of the regeneration of the dull suburb of Hoogvliet a failed modernist experiment in utopian New Town planning the challenge of rethinking this moribund place has been choreographed by Wouter Vanstiphout and Michelle Provoost of Crimson Architectural Historians who came together with others to form WiMBY (“Welcome into My Back Yard!”) in a provocative take on the ingrained “NIMBY” attitude of the region’s white in contradictions and in stories,” says Vanstiphout Fascinated by the successive mutations of Hoogvliet from a small fishing village to an industrial dormitory town then from a white suburb to an immigrant melting pot they were keen to promote the resulting patchwork of convoluted fragments as the town’s main strength “We were attracted to it because it had failed Hoogvliet has become an incredibly rich place.” it was their ambition to reflect this heady mix of stories in 2000 with its New Civic art project for King’s Cross an exploration of civic values for the new millennium and its polemical exhibition Kill the Modernist Within which trumpeted a revival of vernacular iconography and we wanted an architecture that tells a story a kind of Bible for the poor,” explains Vanstiphout “The idea was to monumentalise our idea of Hoogvliet as a city that is interesting because of all its conflicting identities FAT began a programme of cultural observation by drifting through the dilapidated streets of Hoogvliet in the mode of suburban flâneur – somewhere between Baudelaire’s “botanist of the sidewalk” and Dame Edna’s Neighbourhood Watch – looking into people’s front gardens and analysing the artefacts of their domestic dreams “We were trying to recognise the narratives of occupation the layers of stuff that gets applied by people living there,” says Jacob “Somehow the project would have to be embedded in this kind of stuff.” it attempted to distil an essence of Hoogvliet’s hybrid urban condition and develop a visual language that would reflect the town’s innate contradictions between pastoral and industrial “But we’re not image consultants,” Jacob argues wandering down the hard shoulder of the motorway.” Early ideas for both the form and programme of the building were tested though a series of annual summer festivals in which the town’s innumerable disparate groups were brought together by WiMBY in a collective mêlée of pony-rides and model boat demonstrations a bright red plywood cut-out in their emerging style of abstracted Hoogvliet iconography “The intention was that it would become a kind of social condenser to counteract the distance that normally exists between these various groups,” says Jacob “It was also a means to promote and sell our architectural language to the public,” their buy-in being essential for a project with such broad social ambition The resulting Villa and Heerlijkheid park are a distillation of the activities of successive festivals providing a permanent home for the eccentric clubs and ephemeral cultural events of the town which lay dormant and hidden “It was a process of looking for all the little clubs and foundations in Hoogvliet,” explains Vanstiphout “then bringing them together in a kind of parallel alternative urban centre As the climax of six years of exhaustive consultation the building is bursting at the seams with rhetorical content Essentially an industrial shed – the predominant local vernacular – the blue blockwork box is wrapped in a monumental super-graphic facade depicting the story of Hoogvliet in an abstract collage A rustic timber frieze envelops the upper storey in a tour de force of symbolism where cut-out domestic rooftops merge into cartoon tree canopies which in turn meld into vertical structures referenced from the port and refinery and back into the monotonous strip-window world of the New Town while a ridiculous riot of trees and clouds extruded in golden polyurethane trumpets the main entrance It’s a Venturian “decorated shed” taken to the extreme “The sign has enveloped and grown all over the architecture,” says Jacob “like a mould obsessed with graphic design.” Greeted by an exposed steel frame and bare blockwork it is clear that much of the building’s €2.4 million budget went on the facade yet there is still acute attention to visual association but articulated with the sweeping ambition of a much grander civic building while the steel cross-bracing of the walls recalls the mock-Tudor cladding of some of Hoogvliet’s more aspirational residences Exploiting the site’s troubled context a strategically placed double-height window allows the spectacular nighttime theatre of flames and flashing lights from the nearby refinery to provide a dramatic backdrop to parties this flexible space has already hosted Antillean raves a chamber orchestra and a circumcision party The inflated cartoon Villa sits within an equally stylised landscape of caricatures: an impossibly curvy comic book hill (built with surrounding toxic landfill) frames a new lake carved in the shape of the Netherlands while rustic log benches with bright pink inserts dot the shore An ecological kids’ playground has already seen toddlers wrestling with wattle and daub while plans for a pet cemetery were foiled by the Tree Knights which has taken the site for its arboretum – just one of the many squabbles of the park’s development “We were dealing with a real community,” recalls Vanstiphout “in that they also hated each other.” The first of a series of “hobby huts” is in place a miniature palace in yellow profiled steel and plywood Soon to be joined by other bespoke huts with glamorous aspirations the motley jumble will form a kind of miniature model urbanism providing homes for Hoogvliet’s weird and wonderful societies along the edge of the park Already embraced by a complete cross-section of the town’s diverse demographic there is hope that this whimsical intervention driven through by a model of considered long-term consultation will change the fortunes of this maligned New Town and help to welcome more people into its backyard Comment on this article Registration for the Vertical MRO Conference in Kelowna B.C. is now open! Click here to learn more. and website in this browser for the next time I comment Δdocument.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value" Bell 525 Walkaround: The First Commercial Fly-by-Wire Helicopter Bell 505 Contact seller for price Year: 2022 Click on the button below to send an email to our team and we will get to it as soon as possible Have a story idea you would like to suggest Two men died in separate shootings in The Hague and Hoogvliet the social media platform formerly called Twitter The shooting in The Hague happened at around 9:20 p.m. on Monday on Orlandostraat, the police said First responders stabilized the critically injured man at the scene and rushed him to a hospital Shortly after the shooting, the police found a burnt-out car on Van der Kooijweg in Rijswijk. The police are investigating whether the car fire is linked to the shooting, a spokesperson told Omroep West The Hoogvliet shooting happened at the entrance of an apartment complex on Bovensim at around 3:00 a.m. on Tuesday, the Rotterdam police said First responders tried to resuscitate the victim The police are investigating both shootings and asked witnesses to come forward FAT’s community building on the outskirts of Rotterdam distills the essence of suburban dreams Of a world where the comfortingly slick cuteness of a Nintendo video game can be part of our homes Of a Post-Deconstruction world where a bring-and-buy sale is dignified with architecture made in the grandest of porticoed a new community building by London-based practice FAT but it has ideas above its station; a vaulting dream that springs from the imagination of its designers Antillean DJs and tree-lovers of this depressed post-war suburb of Rotterdam in the Netherlands Those dreams are expressed on the jovial facade of this simple steel-frame shed and its surrounding landscape communicative architecture that most architects don’t much like Rare is the architect whose analysis of a given situation or context leads them to propose a large golden portico of stylised trees made out of sprayed polystyrene and the multi-faceted landscape that it sits in was conceived as part of a regeneration effort in the town of Hoogvliet which was set up by Rotterdam-based Crimson Architectural Historians This group of activist-academics was commissioned to come up with an alternative regeneration strategy for a context it is obsessed with: the post-war Modernist suburb must take the most molecular-scale approach to consultation I have ever seen engaging a wide range of groups through different tactics including an annual festival bringing together diverse groups within the local community The pavilions and interventions for those festivals were designed by FAT in a search for what Crimson describes as ‘an architectural style exclusive to Hoogvliet’ The result is a radically different architecture but also a real example of an alternative to conventional planning practice Think of how this post-war suburb would conventionally be redesigned in the UK supersede Modernist towers in parks with blocks hard up to the street Wouter Vanstiphout of Crimson explains: ‘There were lots of big plans to introduce high streets and perimeter blocks but our criticism was that this is another completely artificial It says that the Modernist planning paradigm has failed and we have to return this place to paradigms that work That kind of consensus allows for a schematic quantitative approach to urban renewal under the guise of consultation.’ Crimson emphatically doesn’t believe in this kind of conventional masterplanning practice because it always assumes an ideal society,’ says Vanstiphout ‘Norms are very poor compared to looking at the way the city is in reality Imagination and extrapolation are a poor substitute for reality It is only when these models fail that they become real urban situations.’ while this anarcho-democratic paradox might be familiar from crit rooms or pub conversations the most comprehensive example in recent years of trying to practice this kind of consultation and allowing it to drive the urbanism and architecture The project is a polemic against what one might call coffee-morning consultation where residents get to put a few flags in maps and are then sent on their way This leads to FAT’s Heerlijkheid (which roughly translates as ‘beautiful place’) - a project with a mix of programmes that boggles the mind wedding receptions and Antillean festivals It also houses an arthouse cinema; a café; a space dedicated to making models of cargo ships; an arboretum; a nature park; a small scaffold hut for teaching kids how to make wattle-and-daub walls; and a large lake in the shape of a map of the Netherlands for birds and model boats Other programmes that were nearly part of the mix but didn’t make it (or haven’t yet) include a pet cemetery; a giant Hoogvliet sign facing the motorway with pigeon lofts in the letters; stables; an ‘outlook tower’; and a place to store machinery for maintaining the park Many of these uses came from the consultation that WiMBY in which it discovered a world of furtive social activities taking place in people’s lounges Some of the other ideas came from FAT’s approach to the non-existent brief before the site or use of the building was decided and that gave it a unique involvement in the project’s genesis it was FAT’s suggestion to have a pet cemetery was able to find a cemetery operator who was looking for a new location This particular use didn’t happen in the end but it shows how FAT’s testing of its client’s boundaries prompted a new and utterly unique mix of uses FAT’s reading of the site was also used to help it achieve one of the priorities on this scrubby bit of land which is on the edge of a motorway and opposite one of the biggest oil refineries in the world ‘We wanted to manufacture a sense of place,’ says Sam Jacob ‘Our approach is like Critical Regionalism from the opposite point of view but an abstraction that’s not heading towards meaninglessness We want to articulate the complexity of the story a collage of elements that absolutely makes an identifiable place even if there is a miniature-golf eeriness to some of it There is the aforementioned Netherlands-shaped lake There is the tarmac landscape with an ovoid patch of astroturf A ‘hobby hut’ sits by an artificial mini-canal There’s also a wetland area where kids ‘can go and play about in the mud’ and I can’t really improve on that description As you look into the distance at the man-made hillside that shields the building from the motorway you are overwhelmed by how a strong artificiality is needed to blot out the banal man-made context of wasteground FAT’s approach here has a kind of pharmaceutical strength underneath the decoration and the discourse at the heart of this project is a dumb box the building is divided into two halves: one is a big room for parties and the other houses a café on the ground floor and a small and you notice that in the double-height entrance hall is a cheap galvanised staircase winding around the space as if it were in a grand country house this building can’t help but reach beyond the narrative to the architectural Its facades retell the story of Hoogvliet in a dreamy half-timbering - and a portico that looks like the stylised foliage of the trees on its suburban verges crossed with plumes of smoke from the nearby Shell refinery to continue the Classical architectural references this project has both the portico (although it’s a Super Mario golden portico made of a homogenous non-material that will not age) and a frieze (the cut-out timber that changes on each facade of the building) the timber is cut into the image of the towering smokestacks beyond the site; on another It’s a picture of the skyline of Hoogvliet a way of compressing the dispersed nature of this Modernist town into a single place to be shared by all this one is the most explicitly connected to the work of Robert Venturi American architect and author of Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture (1966) and the more-famous 1977 follow-up Learning from Las Vegas (with Denise Scott Brown and Stephen Izenour) FAT’s project is an archetypal decorated shed using sign-like popular imagery to communicate to its audience It would surely satisfy Venturi’s desire for an architecture with a ‘social aesthetic’ But Heerlijkheid’s message is ambiguous and charming The values of this building are not abstract or imported They are not about giving instruction or pressing people into action It is about creating a new vernacular for a place authentically Post-Modern work of architecture that deserves credit in his furious little essay ‘Ornament and Crime’ (1908) wrote that ornament is ‘the culture of the poor’ pared simplicity would come to be loved by ‘uncultured folk’ even if they would never fully understand it In the centenary year of the essay’s publication FAT has completed a decorated building and landscape that embody the histories dreams and desires of an economically underprivileged community abstraction and lack of adornment could never communicate the stories of the residents of Hoogvliet FAT’s new vernacular for the town can dream of all those things Hoogvliet’s regeneration is documented in WiMBY Past and Present of a Satellite Town (Netherlands Architecture Institute this piece by Peter Blundell Jones and… One of the chief influences on the design of the National Gallery… Browse the Women in Architecture calendar and keep up to date with… [attach id="514859" size="medium"][/attach] Today’s Art Discussion Group meeting being held at Misco Offices (first floor) Fino Building in Notabile Road at 7.30pm is inviting Annemarie Hoogvliet-Weijers who is preparing a retrospective at Cavalieri Art Hotel next month Hoogvliet-Weijers was born in Holland in a small village south of Rotterdam Her family loved music and creativity and she was brought up in the Dutch countryside among rivers that nurtured a love and a spirit for nature When she moved to Malta in the early 1990s but the real change came when she moved to Dubai Her painting addiction became an obsession on experiencing Arab horses Hoogvliet-Weijers will answer questions about her vision Hollandse Nieuwe and The Sunday Times of Malta please register for free or log in to your account Ziggo restarts National Gigabit internet roll out in Hoogvliet RotterdamZiggo restarts National Gigabit internet roll out in Hoogvliet RotterdamUp to 1 gigabit internet speed for 370,000 connections Ziggo will restart superfast internet with download speeds of up to 1 gigabit per second in Rotterdam Hoogvliet gigabit speeds will be available throughout the Rotterdam region Ziggo aims to offer gigabit speeds on its existing fixed network everywhere in the Netherlands within 18 months customers in Rotterdam Hoogvliet can now enjoy gigabit speeds a Ziggo service team will be ready in Hoogvliet to answer questions in the most personal way there will already be more than 1 million gigabit connections altogether That’s more than 370,000 households and business customers in Rotterdam who can switch to this fast internet connection Since Ziggo's glass-fibre coaxial network is already in place it won’t be necessary to dig up any streets or gardens Councillor for the Economy and Neighbourhoods: “Internet is now as normal as water and electricity in your home The people of Rotterdam should therefore be able to rely on a fast secure and reliable connection and a wide choice of internet services Completion of the gigabit internet network is an important step in our ambition to make Rotterdam a digital example for the rest of the world by 2025 It is an objective that requires pioneering work that we cannot do alone That’s why we have entered into partnerships with players like Ziggo .” Ziggo will offer gigabit speeds to nearly half of the 7.2 million households and commercial properties connected to the Ziggo network Ready for the Future"The roll out of superfast internet in the Netherlands is fully in line with VodafoneZiggo's ambition to prepare the Netherlands for the digital future," said Jeroen Hoencamp we’re investing hundreds of millions every year in a stable ‘Gigabit without digging’ is an important part of that investment " Thanks to all these investments to make our network suitable for gigabit speeds not only will customers who opt for the fastest connection benefit all customers will benefit from a faster and more stable network without having to do anything." Network InvestmentRotterdam’s cable network was prepared technically for gigabit internet in 2019 Ziggo technicians installed more than 560,000 new connectors in homes and replaced more than 53,000 cables in 29,214 street cabinets That’s more than 70 kilometres of new network cabling in street cabinets and district exchanges super-fast internet is not made available per street or district but Ziggo can switch on entire cities or regions at once.One gigabit per second is ten times the current average 100 Mbps connection speed in the Netherlands It allows people in one household to simultaneously view and download 4K films and HD TV programmes to multiple devices They can download a 5 GB HD film in 42 seconds instead of the seven minutes it takes with a normal internet connection Signal 97% Fibre-OpticZiggo combines fibre-optics and coaxial cabling in its ''hybrid'' fixed network An average of 97% of the route taken by an internet signal from the studio to a home from the local switch box to the living room Ziggo uses DOCSIS 3.1 technology for this coaxial leg which will enable exceedingly high internet speeds and already boasts a download speed of up to 1 Gbps this technology will see speeds soar up to 10 gigabits per second Upload speeds will also increase over time GIGA SubscriptionZiggo's new ‘GIGA’ subscription consists of: internet up to 1 Gbps download and 50 Mbps upload the most extensive TV channel package on the interactive Mediabox Next the Ziggo GO app and a landline telephone connection All the benefits of gigabit speed are now also available to small and medium-sized business customers Check if you already have access from your company or university With a MRW subscription you’ll get access to: It will be possible to buy groceries on January 1 in most places in the Netherlands There is at least one supermarket open in seven out of ten municipalities on New Year’s Day It does differ per municipality how many different supermarkets are open The site collected automatized opening times of 3,873 supermarket stores of all the well-known chains in the Netherlands Around 40 percent of these are open on Wednesday which is as much as there were on Christmas Day last year It has become more common for supermarkets to be open on New Year’s Day: this was only the case in five percent of the stores in 2015 But the number of stores opening has stayed around the same for the last few years The proportion of supermarkets that are open varies per municipality Around 10 percent of the supermarkets are open in the municipalities of Vijfheerenlanden Whereas people in Barendrecht and Zandvoort can go to all the supermarkets in the country and Utrecht have relatively the most supermarkets open A big outlier is Nijmegen: all supermarkets there are closed on January 1 except for a to-go branch at the main station There will also be no supermarkets open in Emmen The supermarkets of the following chains were taken into account for this calculation: Albert Heijn Three explosions likely caused by firework bombs occurred in different locations in Rotterdam early Friday morning There was a great deal of damage caused at each location The first blast happened at a café on the Kreekplein in Rotterdam-Zuid at about 1:25 a.m To extinguish the fire that started after the explosion the fire brigade had to demolish part of the ceiling there was also a blast at an apartment building on Forelstraat in the Hoogvliet neighborhood Some exterior doors for the ground floor apartments were damaged and a number of homes had to be temporarily evacuated The third incident took place at about 3 a.m off De Blecourtstraat in the Schiebroek district residents were asked to leave the area as a few homes were evacuated after the explosion occurred on an apartment porch On Wednesday, another explosion occurred in a café located a few kilometers from the Kreekplein incident It was also likely caused by a firework bomb Both cafes are known as places frequently visited by supporters of Rotterdam football club Feyenoord It is still being investigated whether the incidents are connected to the Feyenoord-Ajax game that will be played on Sunday Police could not yet establish the connection between the incidents Wanaka Helicopters flight instructor Graham Stott A helicopter broke apart in mid-air near Wanaka after the rotors struck the tail during turbulence The Wanaka Helicopters' Robinson R22 crashed on the return leg of a flight to Mt Aspiring National Park on April 27 A Transport Accident Investigation Commission (TAIC) report found the helicopter had been operating in a high-risk situation due to a combination of factors It was also flying at an altitude of 5500 feet and was close to its maximum permissible weight with gusts of up to 60 or 70km/h over the mountain passes The helicopter had intended to return to Wanaka along the Matukituki Saddle But an internal tracking device showed that instead of passing over the saddle it turned right over the nearby Waipara Saddle The helicopter was reported overdue later that afternoon The wreckage of the helicopter and the pilots' bodies were found the next day in the Arawhata River valley The wreckage revealed the helicopter had broken up in flight The TAIC found the break-up happened after the main rotor blades struck the tail boom Causes included severe or extreme turbulence buffeting the helicopter the pilots making large and abrupt movements of the controls and the main rotor speed being allowed to drop below its lower limit The TAIC identified a number of safety issues including a lack of knowledge within the industry which meant Mr Stott may not have been fully aware of the risks of flying an R22 near maximum weight at high altitude and in moderate to severe turbulence The report found the format of the Robinson R22 flight manual did not draw enough attention to safety instructions and conditions that could result in serious injury or death It also noted the rate of R22 break-up accidents in New Zealand had not been significantly reduced by a local version of US Federal Aviation Administration measures intended to prevent such accidents The TAIC said aviation regulations must ensure operating parameters for aircraft were clearly and consistently articulated to pilots regardless of the country in which an aircraft was operated The TAIC recommended the Director of Civil Aviation address the pilot and instructor ratings on Robinson helicopters said the report confirmed the family's view that the helicopter had been overwhelmed by extreme wind and was unable to recover we are pleased the report is silent on any negligence on the boys' behalf "Those who fly in and around the mountains appreciate how unpredictable conditions can sometimes be Mr Hoogvliet said the family was deeply saddened but did not have regrets He spent the happiest last four months of his life learning to fly The family's thoughts were with Wanaka Helicopters and Mr Stott's family They would never forget the support of the Queenstown community their local church and those involved in the search and rescue (SAR) operation "In recognition of the SAR team involved our family will make an undisclosed donation to the new SAR building for capital costs and associated running costs.'' 'This is not something we’ve seen before.' Amsterdam and Rotterdam were again the scene of explosions overnight One person was treated for smoke inhalation Amsterdam had one at a fishmonger on Molukkenstraat There was also a suspected arson in the Dutch capital overnight The explosion at the Amsterdam fishmonger happened around 5:00 a.m., a local told AT5 The blast shattered the business’s windows Emergency services also responded to Derde Oosterparkstraat at 00:20 a.m. because a motorcycle, scooter, and car were on fire. The letterboxes in a nearby apartment building were also damaged. The cause of the fire is not yet known, a police spokesperson told NH Nieuws The fire happened near the site of an explosion earlier this month an explosive damaged the door of another apartment building on Derde Oosterparkstraat The explosion in Schiedam happened at a home on Boterstraat at 00:50 a.m Paramedics treated one resident at the scene for smoke inhalation The Berkel en Rodenrijs explosion set a car on fire and shattered a window at a home on Lunet the Rotterdam police reported on X at 1:45 a.m The residents were home at the time and managed to flee through the back door The explosion in Hoogvliet happened at around 1:00 a.m. at a commercial building on Koddeweg. The blast and subsequent fire damaged the building’s facade. The police think the explosion may be linked to a robbery at the same building a day earlier, possibly involving cocaine, according to Rijnmond Supermarket chain Jumbo recalled chocolate cookies on Thursday as they could contain metal pieces that are bad for the health and DekaMarkt have also asked customers to bring certain chocolate cookies back to the shop for a full refund Lidl issued a recall for some Easter chocolate bunnies Jumbo requests customers who have purchased the Jumbo Chocolate Cookies with an expiration date of 5-9-2024 and the Jumbo Double Chocolate Cookies with an expiration date of 13-9-2024 to return the products Albert Heijn's problems are also with their store brand cookies SPAR is recalling store-brand Triple Chocolate cookies The G'woon brand of double chocolate cookies will also be pulled from the shelves at Coop and Coop all have problems with the Merba brand biscuits identified as being cranberry or triple chocolate DekaMarkt and Hoogvliet only have issues with the Triple Chocolate biscuits from Merba said that that the metal shavings are too small to be discovered by metal detectors in the production lines "The metal pieces discovered have different sizes which could form a possible risk to people's health if they consume them," the company said White and dark chocolate Easter bunnies from Lidl were also at risk of causing problems The chocolate may contain pieces of hard plastic and Lidl urged its customers not to consume the candy This concerns Favorina Easter bunnies in the praline white and praline pure varieties Customers are able to get a refund at the store Two people died in separate shootings in Arnhem and Oss over the weekend There were also shooting incidents in Hoogvliet and The Hague that left two people hurt The shooting in Arnhem happened at the intersection of Amerstraat and Scheldestraat at 12:15 a.m. on Monday. Gelderland police confirmed on X that a man was killed but did not reveal any further details The police are investigating what happened In Oss, a 23-year-old man got shot and killed in an apartment on Hertewissel on Saturday evening. The police responded to the home at around 10:00 p.m. and found the man dead inside. Responding officers arrested two women, aged 36 and 31, both from Oss. The 36-year-old woman was released a day later and is no longer a suspect. The other woman is still in custody, the Oost-Brabant police said on X “Detectives are trying to find out what exactly happened in the home by investigating trace evidence and conducting neighborhood research,” the police said about the Oss shooting In Hoogvliet, which falls under the municipality of Rotterdam, a 25-year-old woman was found with a bullet wound and multiple other injuries on Lengeweg at 4:35 a.m. on Sunday. First responders stabilized her at the scene and then rushed her to a nearby hospital by ambulance, the police said The police arrested five people for involvement in this shooting and assault - an 18-year-old man from Rotterdam The woman will be questioned once she is able And in The Hague, a 20-year-old woman got hurt in a shooting in a home on Asstraat at 11:45 p.m. on Saturday. The police arrested a 23-year-old man from The Hague and three other people for possible involvement in the shooting You are not permitted to download, save or email this image. Visit image gallery to purchase the image a licensed pilot training for his commercial licence are believed to have died on impact when their Robinson 22 went down on Wednesday at the head of the Arawhata River Their bodies were found in the wreckage by searchers at 9am yesterday Their deaths have been referred to the coroner and a Transport Air Investigation Commission inspector is scheduled to visit the site today "We had him as our student liaison officer and he would help students with all their problems .. He was the sort of guy you would want your daughter to marry." Mr Hoogvliet had been training with Wanaka Helicopters for just a few months but had impressed Mr Spencer-Bower with his abilities "He was one of our top achieving students and absolutely loved what he was doing Maritime New Zealand's Rescue Co-ordination Centre and Wanaka police mounted a search on Wednesday afternoon after being alerted by Wanaka Helicopters the pair had failed to return from the training flight from Wanaka to Haast Wanaka's search and rescue community was assisted by helicopter companies from Dunedin and Te Anau using specialist night detection equipment Wanaka LandSar spokesman Phil Melchior and Const Johnston yesterday praised the 20 volunteers who helped out in testing conditions rocky alpine area on the western side of the Divide despite the use of the specialist detection tools A change in conditions "allowed us to put people on the ground and pick up evidence of where the aircraft was," Const Johnston said Ground crews found part of the tail section in the Arawhata River bed was found further away in the narrow gully Wednesday was a tough night for Mr Spencer-Bower The couple had decided the company would not operate in the meantime so they and their employees could grieve began training with Wanaka Helicopters in 2005 He was offered a job as a commercial pilot in 2006 became a qualified instructor in 2009 and had completed 2000 flight hours Mr Hoogvliet obtained his private helicopter licence on March 23 and hoped to complete his commercial licence by the end of winter The Hoogvliet family's deep Christian faith was keeping them strong a Queenstown property owner and real estate agent Marcus completed his electrician's apprenticeship He was a keen outdoors man who loved to "go into the hills with his mates" and go shooting Devout members of the Open Brethren Queenstown Bible Chapel and our memory of him will be of a loving son and brother Mr Stott (31) was raised in Dunedin and attended Grants Braes School Kings High School and Dunedin College of Education Friends described him as a "top bloke" and "one hell of a nice guy" Even before his name had been officially released they were writing condolences on his Facebook site He was on everyone's wedding invitation list "Stotty has been to more weddings than anyone I know .. There is nothing that can fill the gap of a man like Stotty," the friend said was passionate about aviation and a keen photographer were distressed and had not made a media statement