Recently the Dutch town of Castricum was been changed into a temporary open air campsite. Between August 19 and August 29, camping was made possible all over the place —…
In their battle for salary increase, the garbage men of the city of Amsterdam decided to strike in May. Their actions led to an entire city full of…
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’…
Everyone is invited to play football new style. Spanish artist Maider López (1976) will be transforming the Dutch polder landscape into a football field with natural…
Reading ‘Urban Interventions’, a recently published book by the ever inspiring German publisher Gestalten is like re-experiencing last two years of The Pop-Up City. The book…
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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…
During the annual art fair Art Pie International/Kunstvlaai 2010 (taking place between May 15-23), Amsterdam-based artist Brian Kersbergen aka ROYALSTEEZ showed his biggest work…
Two years ago I stumbled upon Banksy’s pet shop in New York City. It was amazing. Not only the statement made by the street artist from…
It took us two years, but it’s here. Yesterday the Karel Appel House opened its doors in the east of Amsterdam. The Karel Appel House is a mixed-use…
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
‘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…
