Over the last years we visited a lot of so called ‘Wohnzimmer’ bars. The Wohnzimmer (‘living room’) bar is a unique typology in bars which gained popularity over…
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Whereas the modernists were lyrical about the possibilities of using concrete as a new material for buildings, back in 1920, I now feel a comparable enthusiasm for sustainable…
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Dezeen reports about the semi-translucent bar that designers Diogo Aguiar and Teresa Otto have built for a competition of the Universidade do…
Will the first Dutch hills be on water? Dutch architect Anne Holtrop collaborated with green technology firm Studio Noach and botanist and vertical garden…
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Currently Copenhagen seems to take over the position of world cycling capital from Amsterdam, considering the bicycle culture blog Copenhagenize and the amazing Copenhagen Wheel. Nevertheless,…
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…
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‘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…
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.…
