Rudolf from Urbanshit recently discovered this amazing ‘street art to go’ vending machine at Berlin’s Central Station (Hauptbahnhof). The so-called Berlinomat provides the book
On Saturday the 24th of April the first Augmented Reality flashmob will take place at the Dam Square in Amsterdam, organized by artist Sander Veenhof. Participants…
‘Walking Men 99′ is a site-specific Public Art Installation, surrounding the site of the upcoming Four Seasons Hotel in NYC’s Downtown area. It features a photographic collage of…
This week Hamburg’s urban intervention and critical lifestyle blog Urbanshit reports about a great project made by the Russian artist Leonid Tishkov. The project called ‘Private…
By Jesse Jorg | Published:
Thursday March 18, 2010
Wasted Spaces is a London-based non-profit art organization that transforms vacant shop fronts and unused properties into exciting art experiences. This attracts new audiences and gives them the…
As a new icon for Amsterdam, Rietveld Landscape proposes JackUpCity. JackUpCity is a plan to reconnect Amsterdam with its harbor area. Since decades most…
Also posted in Headline | Tagged city marketing, drilling platform, floating city, harbor, icon, imagination, jack-up, landscape, offshore, shipping, urbanism |
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…
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…
Also posted in Headline | 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…
Friday’s Dutch late night news show had nothing better to report about, so an item passed about a Dutchman who’s hitchhiking around Europe with a trailer. Tjerk Ridder…
Posted in International Practices | Tagged caravan, concept, eu, europe, hitchhiking, idea, istanbul, music, ruhr area, trailer, travel, utrecht |
To inform the world about their (free) Ovi Maps mobile navigation software, Nokia built a house-sized, interactive signpost in the form of a dynamically rotating…
Posted in International Practices | Tagged interactive, led, london, mobile, navigation, nokia, public space, screen, signpost, Technology, thames |
The idea behind the Anteroom series is so brilliant and simple. Vancouver-based artist James Nizam projects a big size pinhole experience into rooms of abandoned, soon-to-be-demolished…
