“Another great conversion by ZECC Architecten, this time an apartment in a converted chapel located in Utrecht, The Netherlands. It’s on the second floor (added?), and because there were no windows at floor level, the firm designed one to be cut into the front on the street side to bring in more light – it vaguely resembles a Mondriaan painting. Together with the original stained-glass windows and the white painted interior, the whole effect is simply amazing. The bedroom and bathroom were left dark. The original organ remains as a reference to the history of the building – it’s a nice conversation piece, that’s for sure…”
(Link and photo materialicio.us, tip: Laurent )
Algemeen Dagblad has a 
A Flemish study which showed that the Dutch talk faster than their Southern neighbours was shot down rapidly by Dutch experts when it was first published in 2004. But four years later linguist Hugo Quené from the University of Utrecht has proved his Flemish colleagues right. Quené used new methods to pick apart the 38-hour speech corpus and used a recently developed statistical method, multi-level analysis. As it turns out long “phrases” (bits of speech separated by pauses) take relatively less time to pronounce than short ones. Even so, the Dutch tend to use shorter phrases than the Flemish. Also when phrases of the same length were compared, the Dutch proved to be the fast talkers.
The united Dutch public broadcasters are considering introducing a YouTube like system for posting videos of shows 
