Tag Archives: flexible

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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Industrial Waste Bin Architecture

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…

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Book Review: Findings On Elasticity

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…

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Revitalizing Ken Isaacs

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…

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Flying Gardens

An overwhelming history of sky design does not exist. Ancient Romans and Greeks never had the technical possibilities to really redesign the big space around us. As modern…

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Supertramp By Lehman B

‘Supertramp’ – a new alternative ‘future platform’ initiative by recently founded do-tank Lehman B – is officially embarking on its maiden voyage in and around London’s urban amazingness…

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Hong Kong’s Transformable 24 Room Apartment

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…

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Mobile Donation Launderette Pops Up In New York

Soon a mobile pop-up laundry truck will drive the streets of New York City. It will not only facilitate mobile laundry services but also asks people to donate…

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Karel Appel House Opens In Amsterdam

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…

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Open Soon: The Archigram Archives

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…

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Le Balcon Additionnel

Sometimes we stumble upon something that doesn’t need any explanation, because there’s simply nothing to explain. The project ‘Balcon Additionnel’ by French artist Julien Berthier is…

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Architectural Ice Cream On Wheels

Yesterday NOTCOT talked about the Coolhaus Ice Cream Truck that dropped by during the Architizer launch party at the A+D Museum in…

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BlockChalk: Forget About The Neighborhood

BlockChalk is a new locative media tool made by former Delicious people Stephen Hood and Dave Baggeroer. BlockChalk is available for different…

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Bye Bye Concrete, Hello Plastic

Whereas the modernists were lyrical about the possibilities of using concrete as a new material for buildings, back in 1920, I now feel a comparable enthusiasm for sustainable…

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A Floating Modular Park For Amsterdam

Last Friday I had an interesting talk with landscape designer Ronald Rietveld about temporary urbanism and flexible strategies for the city of Amsterdam. He revealed a great design…

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