As a new icon for Amsterdam, Rietveld Landscape proposes JackUpCity. JackUpCity is a plan to reconnect Amsterdam with its harbor area. Since decades most…
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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,…
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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…
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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…
One of these days Soundpiece will be installed in downtown Rotterdam. Soundpiece is a major permanent open air sound installation, meant to transform the Schouwburgplein into a permanent…
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Derick Childress spent more than three nights at the Clarion Hotel in Raleigh, North Carolina, to prepare a wedding proposal for his girlfriend Emily. The project…
Last Friday I paid attention to Spacecraft 2 by showcasing some of the more than 150 projects covered in the book. Under the slogan ‘more fleeting architecture…
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“I know, you’re probably sick of AR this and AR that by now, and the technology is only in its infancy, but this?”
Today I bumped into this article on…
In 2007 we fell in love with Spacecraft, a fantastic book published by Gestalten which presents inspiring “projects that meet the changing spatial needs…
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