New chapter of the Gecekondu and Sausalito Almere story! Last week we reported about the Gecekondu summerhouse hotel built by DUS Architects at the beach…
The New York Times and Bright report about a new, free, smartphone application by Dennis Crowley called Foursquare. Foursquare seeks to turn…
We are glad to announce a very fresh Pecha Kucha Night Amsterdam. It’s all gonna happen next week, on Wednesday July 8, at the venue of
As people get more flexible, food has to come after them. Mobile food concepts increase in popularity. Recently all sorts of flexible food concepts had a tasty show…
Klaus Overmeyer is a Berlin-based landscape architect. The philosophy of his office, UC Klaus Overmeyer, is deeply rooted in an optimistic attitude towards the contemporary landscape stimulating an…
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Los Angeles-based architecture firm INABA have designed and installed a so-called ‘Pool Noodle Rooftop’ for the non-profit art group X-Initiative in Chelsea, New…
Design studio Fantastic Norway created a dreamy, pixellated cloud of recycled cardboard for the student exhibition of the Norwegian Centre for Design and Architecture in Oslo.…
In order to give space intensive landscape functions a chance in a dense city, you should order them vertically. Think of farms. Or even campings. Antwerp-based firm…
At the ‘beach’ of Amsterdam’s new suburb Almere, our friends of DUS Architects have built an illegal temporary summer house slash hotel which opened its doors three days…
Are highly commercial megastores and supermalls the new domains of guerrilla artists?
Encastrable is an interesting urban project intiated by Paul Souviron and Antoine Lejolivet of the…
Brazilian visual artist Ernesto Neto has made this great fantasy space at museum Booijmans van Beuningen in Rotterdam.…
The architects of Berlin agency Convertible City have designed a great theatre transformation project in the German town of Darmstadt. During the recontruction of…
The creator of this three-dimensional pixel map of Hong Kong has put big efforts into this fantastic artwork. The unknown artist entirely pixeled the city of Hong Kong…
No outdoor advertising. No billboards, no neon signs, the electronic panels. No posters. No flyers. No ads on buses. No ads on trains. That’s São Paulo these days, Brazil’s largest…
As our posts about inflatable constructions and ‘bubbletecture’ are among the most popular on this blog, we’d like to show these rather classical examples of Urban
