Toronto-based street artist Posterchild has been turning unused newspaper boxes in his city into planters. Very nice work. He explains:
“I’ve always been amazed by the…
Huts are inspiring, mostly because they remind of childhood. Treehugger reports about this interesting rooftop hut. The sustainable hut is provided with solar panels…
Red Bull outshines with extraordinary campaigns to promote its energy drink, such as the international Red Bull Air Races and the recently opened venue Rooms of…
The local government of Athens must have been concerned about the pale skin of the local nerds. Flickr user Tribalddb.Athens made these pictures of…
Rotterdam is boosting its pre-war downtown Laurenskwartier district by planning a brand new iconic market hall. Architecture office MVRDV came up with a spectacular…
Rebel Art and Wooster Collective report about the latest project of Madrid-based street art collective Luzinterruptus. Goal of this guerrilla project in the…
Thanks to Dutch blog Het Zesde Vlak we found out about a fantastic public toilet in Rotterdam by Monica Bonvicini (thanks Trendbeheer!). The toilet was part…
City marketing is hot for already 20 years. I believe this is not a hype but a necessary consequence of the fact that cities…
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Urban flexibility is one of our main focuses at Golfstromen. Therefore we are proud to announce a new chapter in our story of temporary use of vacant urban…
We came across the work of Berlin-based artist Jan Vormann, who combines his passion for both LEGO and dispatch work. Vormann started his own bottom-up reconstruction project fixing…
A city should be considered an ever changing organism instead of something static. Charles Darwin’s famous quote “It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most…
A couple of months ago we blogged about the High Line, the urban transformation project in New York City. What was once an old traintrack trough Manhattan will be…
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Earthmine is an interesting 3D mapping application that uses a Google StreetView-like environment extended with a virtual layer on the buildings upon which users can draw legal graffiti.…
The work of the famous Improv Everywhere group is now captured in a book and has become mature as a new form of performance art. The book ‘Causing…
A logic result of the current urban farming trend is making the good old farm fit with the urban structure. Different architects and city planners around the world are playing…
