Considering the many examples of countryside-like places filled with modular buildings that I’ve seen so far, it seems that flexible quickbuild architecture is slowly becoming more widely accepted. The funny…
Reading Italo Calvino’s novel ‘The Invisible Cities’, I found this great story about Zenobia, a flexible city avant la lettre. Calvino addresses perfectly the issue of a dynamic city…
New York architecture office WORK has made a temporary Public Farm. The installation in Queens is the winning submission for the PS1 Young Architect Program by…
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At this blog we generally aim to tickle you with new developments, designs and practices that are directly or indirectly related to the concept of the pop-up city. However, sometimes…
Just a great picture from our friends of Je Hoofd Loopt Om, taken in Berlin. The photo illustrates a major development of more and more people getting footloose; a…
A few days ago I stumbled upon a Wall Street Journal Magazine article about the work of Seattle-based architect Tom Kundig. He designed rustic homes on…
On the last day of December we wrote about the planned comeback of temporary club, restaurant and event space Club 11 Amsterdam. March, Club 11 opens its…
If you’re the owner of a fine apple tree, giving you too many apples to eat, you may be interested in hiring a mobile apple juice machine. Well, that’s possible.…
The concept of space becomes more and more diffuse in the digitally oriented Western society. The emergence of the Internet already had a tremendous reflexion on physical space. For example,…
Posted in International Practices, Theory | Tagged ar, augmented reality, camera, city, gps, iphone, physical, public space, sharing, social, software, space, tagging, Technology, trendwatching, virtual, web 2.0 |
This picture is shot a couple of years ago, during a holiday at the French westcoast close to the old pirate town of Saint Malo (which currently is a tourist…
Posted in International Practices | Tagged beach, design, experience, flexible, france, landscape, planning, recycling, saint malo, sea, Society, space, temporary |
Most people collect so much stuff during their life that they get trapped in their own possession. The more stuff you have, the bigger your house has to be, the…
Posted in International Practices | Tagged box, cologne, creative class, design, flexible, interior, lifestyle, lips, mobile, mobile workers, pop-up, room, transportable, trendwatching, working nomads |
One good thing of all those people traveling to India is that they take pictures of all kinds of phenomena that are somehow strange to our Western perspective, and share…
Posted in International Practices | Tagged agriculture, farming, food, informal, market, mumbai, planning, public space, unused space, urban, urban residues |
How often did I fuck up a whole afternoon of working being unproductive due to immense tiredness? Drinking coffee is not the only solution. Taking a 30 to 40 minutes…
Posted in International Practices, Theory | Tagged amsterdam, culture, flexible, innovative, lips, london, power-nap, sleeping, stuttgart, tokyo, working, working nomads |
This bookshelf actually is a temporary building concept in Cardiff, Wales. It will be there during the building of a new central library at the building spot right behind this scene.…
The ‘S(ch)austall Project’ of Stuttgart-based FNP Architekten shows another perspective on the re-use of ruins and other abandoned buildings and can be considered a contribution to the vitality…
