Did you ever sleep in a hotel with an architecture bookstore on your floor? In Marseille that’s possible. We stayed at Hotel Le Corbusier, to be found in
Over the last years we’ve encountered a continuous stream of pop-up architecture constructed out of daily objects. Almost every single household product has been used to create a…
Swedish artist Michael Johansson (who in general makes the most brilliant series of heavily packed regular objects) created this handy packed city. The so-called ‘Umedalen Skulptur’…
Last week the exhibition Fashion & Architecture kicked off with a good party at the Amsterdam Architecture Center (ARCAM). Along with ARCAM and office for architecture…
This book review contains a little theoretical background on the subject we often write about — flexibility. Inspired by Darwin, we’ve described the ability of cities to adapt…
Yesterday I received a kind email from Glasgow School of Art design student Alec Farmer who wanted to thank us for sharing Ken Isaacs’ 1974 classic…
The famous annual multidisciplinary conference TED is spreading across the globe. As of 2010, so-called TEDx events have been held in over 60 countries. Under the slogan ‘somethink…
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We are happy to announce a very special open air summer edition of the Pecha Kucha Night Amsterdam. It will all be taking place on Wednesday 23 June at the…
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Five people from the University of Michigan Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning transformed an abandoned house in Detroit into their own design lab. The students bought…
This construction made by architect Alexander Lefebre and artist Jetske Verhoeven popped up during the alternative art event Kunstvlaai in Amsterdam. It’s a small temporary movie…
On top of the ruins of the closed Berlin Airport Tempelhof, the German architect Jakob Tigges proposes a plan to construct a 1,000-meter tall artificial mountain. The recent…
Architect Gary Chang is one of the approximately 7 million Hong Kong inhabitants living in a small 30 square meters apartment behind one of the concrete…
When cities get crowded, inhabitants get amazingly effective in finding space to live, work, sell, and sleep. We’ve written a couple of articles about Hong Kong’s cage homes,…
Good news reached us today. Arkinet writes about the upcoming opening of Archigram’s archives, “with more than 4,000 drawings, models and audio tapes produced by Archigram…
