Tag Archives: berlin

Blind Date Swingers Club

The Blind Date Swingers Club probably has the best name for a club night. In fact the BDSC is a Berlin-based club with an ever-changing location…

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Digital Paint Bombs

VR/Urban is a Berlin/Glasgow-based collective of ‘public media interventionists’ that works together to create real-time installations. The aim of all their projects is to reclaim urban…

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Follow The Light Signs

As you may know, the mayor of São Paulo has decided to ban all neon ads, billboards and other forms of advertising in public space. The results of the…

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The Fastest Way To The Underground

Urbanism is marketing and marketing is urbanism. That could be a leading phrase of this blog. In fact, more and more marketing initiatives take the urban sphere as…

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Pay & Sit: Privatized Benches In Public Space

As one of the students participating in an interface design program, Berlin-based artist Fabian Brunsing designed this rather remarkable privatized bench in public space.…

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The Inverse Security Camera

Wouldn’t it be nice to see the face of the security officer who is sitting in the urban space control room? That would be fair, right? While he,…

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The Berg: Berlin Goes Beyond Dubai

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…

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Berlinomat: Street Art To Go From Berlin

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

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Take A Look Into The Wohnzimmer Bar


Over the last years we visited a lot of so called ‘Wohnzimmer’ bars. The Wohnzimmer (‘living room’) bar is a unique typology in bars which gained popularity over…

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Build Your Own Google Street View Car


How would it be to drive in the Google Street View car? The designers of F.A.T. built a fake Google Street View car and successfully provoked…

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Subway Bathroom

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…

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On Plug-In Retail

In August I wrote about a walking grill in Berlin. My article triggered Junk Jet Magazine to invite me to contribute to its third volume.…

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Mobile Bus Bars

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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Book Review: Spacecraft 2

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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MediaWharf And MediaSpree: A Comparative Analysis, Part 2

“Increasingly, media has become a global business, in which multinational media conglomerates have their branches all over the world, but show a strong tendency to cluster their headquarters and main…

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