Studio Weave Turns London Hospital Into A Musical Box
Yes, they did it again! Studio Weave, the British architecture agency that was also featured in our review of Create GB, managed to amaze us again with another amazing intervention, called the Lullaby Factory.
Read more →Virgin Launches World’s First Airplane Art Gallery
Virgin Atlantic has recently announced to open art galleries on airplanes. Teaming up with British street artist Eine (Ben Flynn), the ‘Gallery in the Air’ collaboration aims to bring art at 35,000 feet. The passengers of the first class (Upper Class) will have the chance to experience a pop-up gallery atmosphere while traveling between New York and London. Except for the in-plane exhibition, there will also be a series of the artists’ typography artworks presented in the lounge rooms, the exclusive ‘Clubhouses’, of London Heathrow, JFK and Newark Clubhouses airports.
Read more →Can Augmented Reality Supermarkets Revitalize Vacant Urban Lots?
Yihaodian, China’s biggest e-commerce site, is planning to launch 1,000 virtual stores all around the country. Contrary to the QR code technology that was used by other companies around the world as well as Yihaodian itself, this project is solely based on the Augmented Reality (AR) technology and is called Unlimited Yihaodian.
Read more →QRadio: A Music Sharing Platform In Public Space
Finding hidden treasures in the most random places around the city is one of my favourite urban tasks! Repudo is a smartphone app that allows you to leave or pick up ‘treasures’ such as text messages, pictures, videos and generally any digital object around the city. Berlin-based street artist Sweza took this concept a bit further with his street intervention project called QRadio.
Read more →Google Street Scene: Moments From Cinema Captured By Street View Cameras
It seems that the World Wide Web and the potential generated when you mix one concept and Internet tool with another are really inexhaustible. Though it’s only been a week since map enthusiast Tre Baker launched his new Tumblr (check out the other one here), things have gone wild in the blogosphere. Google Street Scene is the perfect combination of Google Street View aesthetics, cinephile interests and challenging quizzes.
Read more →2,100 Plastic Bottles Make A Great Intervention
Earlier this week we presented you a this light installation in a neglected street in Athens. Today we will mentally take you to a journey to one of my favorite cities — the city of Chania, on the Greek island of Creta.
Read more →Camouflaging The Urban Ugliness
Today, it was Dutch designer Roeland Otten that made our day! Starting in 2009 in Rotterdam, until his most recent intervention in Amsterdam, the designer has been ‘dressing’ the walls of concrete, inelegant urban infrastructures (such as an electricity station or an air-quality measuring station) with photographs. Either in the form of sleek, big, high resolution photographs which create an optical illusion of invisibility and transparency or in that of small colored tiles that form a pixelated resemblance of the urban environment behind them the designer manages to conceal some ugly parts of the city.
Read more →Derelict Gas Station Transforms Into A Dreamy Public Space
Re-use and transformation of former private buildings into places open to the public is something that always attracts our interest. This time we’re showcasing an example of such a transformation project around the corner of our HQ in North Amsterdam that opens today!
Read more →Tracking Street Food With An App
I believe that it takes some personal interest on a subject to develop a smartphone application for that. I guess that’s what happened to Eric Lo, a young media designer from San Francisco, who likes to eat street tacos and was frustrated by not being able to track one easily, due to their pop-up nature. Lo developed FoodCarts, a prototype iOS application that allows its user to find a food cart in and around San Francisco in real-time.
Read more →Give Your City A Virtual Paint Job With Tagtool
Tagtool is an iPad application developed to function as a portable, intuitive instrument for projection painting. The app was created by a Vienna-based OMAi, an agency that offers interactive art and entertainment services.
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