Rob Carter has designed a brilliant stop motion animation in which he compresses about 70 years of a city’s development into 3 minutes and 12 seconds.…
How would it be to drive in the Google Street View car? The designers of F.A.T. built a fake Google Street View car and successfully provoked…
Last Friday I had an interesting talk with landscape designer Ronald Rietveld about temporary urbanism and flexible strategies for the city of Amsterdam. He revealed a great design…
Posted in Architecture, Headline | Tagged amsterdam, culture, event, experience, flexible, floating, landscape, lifestyle, modular, pop-up, public space, scenes |
Not so long ago, the Internet of Things sounded like something very abstract. The term ‘Internet of Things’ represents a world in which more and more objects and…
Posted in Headline, Technology | Tagged data, environment, feed, internet of things, mapping, objects, real-time, rfid, sustainability, Technology |
‘Hong Kong Outside’ is the book that comes with its counter part ‘Hong Kong Inside’ — the book we reviewed Friday. Both books are photographic collections…
“A single image doesn’t tell you much, but seen as a collection, a pattern emerges to form a meaningful narrative.” This is the first sentence of the beautiful book
“Actually we know nothing about video art in public space.” That’s how art historian Catrien Schreuder introduces her book ‘Pixels and Places’ during the book presentation at…
Our highly appreciated reporter in Hamburg Rudolf from Urbanshit recently wrote about a project by graphic designer and illustrator Christoph Niemann, who’s currently living…
‘Feeding the Senses’ is an interesting novelty in the field of food future. Before we’ve been talking about Philips’ food explorations and instant food installations, such as the…
Yesterday we finally opened a Facebook page devoted to this blog, The Pop-Up City. Hereby we’d like to invite you to join the network and make it a…
In August I wrote about a walking grill in Berlin. My article triggered Junk Jet Magazine to invite me to contribute to its third volume.…
Last October I wrote about some initiatives that aim to improve the so-called user-generated city. One of those initiatives is the New York BigApps competition,…
Posted in International Practices | Tagged application, ar, augmented reality, bigapps, city, datamining, lifestyle, metro, new york, nyc, open data, path, subway, taxi |
Today I stumbled upon a nice article by Rebel Art about a wicked, unusual mobile bar in Berlin that consists of four old vans. According to…
Posted in Headline, International Practices | Tagged amsterdam, Architecture, bar, berlin, cologne, design, flexible, mobile, pop-up, pub, public space, staalvilla, vans |
Just a piece of architectural inspiration which I found via Matarua’s Tumblr blog Obsidian Bureau. It’s a swimming pool on top of the Hemeroscopium House, a residence in…
On Bill O’Reilly’s conservative TV show, The Netherlands are often ridiculized when talking about the way soft drugs policy is organized here. First of all, O’Reilly doesn’t know…
