Candy Pavilions For A Better City (Life)
By Sindy Li
In Western cities, few people would wake up at 5 am to take a morning stroll in the neighborhood park. Usually they rather stay in their warm beds until the alarm rings after which they rush to work. But the Chinese would wake up that early for a walk or to do some Tai Chi [...]
Read more →Turf: Where Foursquare Meets Monopoly In 8-Bit
By Sindy Li
With location-based services continuing to gain more and more popularity, wouldn’t it be nice to earn money every time you check in at a place? And use the money to buy property in the city, to use it to build additional floors and unique details to your building, earning more money when friends check in [...]
Read more →City Office Dominated By Nature
By Sindy Li
Research has shown that people in hospital and care homes recover faster in a green enviroment. Even a poster with greenery landscape will work. Office employees will finish their tasks more efficiently and faster as well when offered a open green view. Then why don’t we bring some nature into our workspaces? A ordinary house plant in a fancy pot will not be accepted, just let it grow! [...]
Read more →Amphibious Caravan
By Sindy Li
If you can’t choose between the caravan or boat to bring along with your car on the next holiday it’s not really a big deal with the Sealander, presented at the Caravan Salon 2011 in Düsseldorf, Germany. With this miracle, the camping trip doesn’t end at the shore anymore, it continues on the water. You [...]
Read more →Subway Platform Supermarket
By Sindy Li
South Koreans don’t like time-consuming activities and they are always on the run. So how can they make the most of the waiting time at train and metro stations? In the Netherlands we would get some coffee and read a free newspaper to kill time, but in South Korea they have the chance to get some [...]
Read more →How Waste Can Be Beautiful
By Sindy Li
What to do with the good old Compact Discs in the world of MP3, iTunes and Spotify? Don’t throw them away!Artist Elise Morin and architect Clémence Eliard used 65,000 old CDs to create an enormous installation called Waste Landscape in the world’s shiniest city Paris. Rolling hills of hand-sewed together disks of shiny metal in [...]
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