Beaming down like an artificial sun, this outdoor sanitizer by Studio Roosegaarde uses ultraviolet light to reduce transmission of COVID-19. “Urban Sun” uses a fairly new technology called far-UVC to ...

During his visit to Beijing in 2013, Daan Roosegaarde, Dutch artist, designer, and innovator, discovered the air quality in the city was so poor that children were kept indoors and he was unable to ...

Studio Roosegaarde‘s Smog Free Project continues to create bubbles of clean air throughout the world – the team recently opened a Smog Free Tower in Park Jordana in Kraków, Poland. But Daan ...

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 ...

The prolific Studio Roosegaarde has followed its Smog Free Tower and Waterlicht projects with a work that combines their respective environmental and light installation elements. Windlicht seeks to ...

Studio Roosegaarde has restored a set of flood defences in the Netherlands, impregnating the floodgates with a new retroreflective material that glows in the headlights of oncoming cars. The Gates of ...

At a time when global economies are just beginning to get to grips with their impact on the environment, one man is thinking about waste on a much larger scale. Daan Roosegaarde—artist, social ...

A remarkable 26 percent of the Netherlands is below sea level. A series of dikes, dams and waterworks are used to keep the country from being submerged. But what would happen if those defenses weren't ...

As one solution to urban air pollution, Dutch designer Daan Roosegaarde has invented a large tower that eats smog. The tower debuted in Rotterdam in 2015, and then went to four Chinese cities in 2016.