Oord

Jan De Nul and Van Oord are, of course, responsible for conjuring up Dubai's artificial archipelagos, both The World and The Palms, from the bottom of the sea.

Training Ground for Future Terraformers 2008

Van Oord, a marine engineering and dredging company that is constructing the artificial Palm Islands for Dubai, proposed building what amounts to artificial sandbars.

Don’t Just ‘Do Something’ 2010

He was also there when Oord and the others were pardoned and released.

In Gordath Wood: Writer Patrice Sarath » Lady Blackheart 2009

Oord and Cietu began to pull themselves along board by board beneath the dock.

In Gordath Wood: Writer Patrice Sarath » Lady Blackheart 2009

With compressed lips Morrit offered her his arm, just in time for Oord to come crashing through the ceiling in an avalanche of bricks and mortar and land on him.

In Gordath Wood: Writer Patrice Sarath » Lady Blackheart 2009

Cietu and Oord waded through the crowd much as they breasted the water of the moat, keeping together with difficulty.

In Gordath Wood: Writer Patrice Sarath » Lady Blackheart 2009

She let Goshawk take her arm, and, ignoring the significant looks cast among Oord and the others, they left the prison behind.

In Gordath Wood: Writer Patrice Sarath » Lady Blackheart 2009

For answer Oord squeezed her hand, deftly drawing off the ring and making it disappear in his coat again.

In Gordath Wood: Writer Patrice Sarath » Lady Blackheart 2009

Then Lady Cietu Blackara, and Oord, for company, plunged into the moat twenty feet below.

In Gordath Wood: Writer Patrice Sarath » Lady Blackheart 2009

Oord pulled her through the opening and hoisted her to her feet.

In Gordath Wood: Writer Patrice Sarath » Lady Blackheart 2009