I'LL TEACH YOU HOW TO STUNT! (The World’s 1st Floating Apartment Building)

The World’s First Floating Apartment Building » the citadel netherlands floating apartment 4

FACT: In the Netherlands, it gets floody all the time, given that the country is like 80% below sea level (ok, 27%) and there are 3500 polders there (polder = land reclaimed from water through water control technologies known as “damming up” and “diking out”). ”God created the world, but the Dutch created Holland,” according to a famous saying by Wikipedia.

But check it – now an architect there has learned to live with the water, by floating his building on top of it. The Citadel, a luxury apartment complex designed by the firm Waterstudio, will be less lake-front than lake-top. Images of something that has never been done before, after the jump. Here’s how it works:

"The project will be built on a polder, a recessed area below sea level where flood waters settle from heavy rains. There are almost 3500 polders in the Netherlands, and almost all of them are continually pumped dry to keep flood waters from destroying nearby homes and buildings. The New Water Project will purposely allow the polder to flood with water and all the buildings will be perfectly suited to float on top of the rising and falling water."