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Pay & Sit: Privatized Benches In Public Space

By Joop de Boer | Published: Friday June 11, 2010

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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Street Furniture Pops-Up When Needed

By Joop de Boer | Published: Saturday May 22, 2010

In the district of Lombok in the city of Utrecht, The Netherlands, the first pop-up lounge has been placed. Pop-Up, a piece of furniture for public…

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Hong Kong’s Transformable 24 Room Apartment

By Joop de Boer | Published: Friday May 14, 2010

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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Temporary Color Along Amsterdam’s Ugliest

By Joop de Boer | Published: Tuesday April 27, 2010

The Wibautstraat is a modern four track road that ends in the center of Amsterdam. For years this street was considered to be the most ugly street of…

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Take A Look Into The Wohnzimmer Bar

By Joop de Boer | Published: Monday March 8, 2010


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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Levi’s Suddenly Pops Up Again

By Joop de Boer | Published: Saturday January 16, 2010

Haven’t heard from Levi’s in a while. Therefore it’s nice to see them doing something that at least draws my attention. As a boy I didn’t have Levi’s 501, which…

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Urban Intervention: Sealing The City

By Joop de Boer | Published: Tuesday October 20, 2009

Wonder how to make easy DIY furniture for the urban realm? The French artist Cedric Bernadotte came up with this interventions made from stretch…

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Pool Noodle Rooftop Party Space

By Jeroen Beekmans | Published: Thursday June 25, 2009

Los Angeles-based architecture firm INABA have designed and installed a so-called ‘Pool Noodle Rooftop’ for the non-profit art group X-Initiative in Chelsea, New…

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A Table That Eats Itself

By Joop de Boer | Published: Thursday June 4, 2009


Atema Architecture’s ‘Auto-Cannibalistic Table’ is made out of egg cartons, flour paste, soil and seeds. When water is added, the seeds germinate and the table literally eats…

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Gummo’s Recycled Office

By Jeroen Beekmans | Published: Thursday March 12, 2009

Looking at the pictures coming with this article, you won’t say that the interior of this office entirely consists of recycled furniture. But yes, it does. Interior architects of

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Flexible Interior Units by Kapteinbolt

By Joop de Boer | Published: Tuesday December 30, 2008

Designers Louwrien Kaptein and Menno Bolt have been producing a flexible interior for an artist consisting of four double panels, each with its own function. The interior consists…

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