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…
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…
Launderettes are great inspiring places of which their existence is seldomly celebrated. They are perhaps the best indicators for metropolitan lifestyles within an urban area. Here I’ll describe and celebrate…
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…
Last Friday I paid attention to Spacecraft 2 by showcasing some of the more than 150 projects covered in the book. Under the slogan ‘more fleeting architecture…
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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…
I’d like to provide you with some pictures of waiting rooms at Dutch railway stations. Since I’m travelling a lot by train through the Dutch Metropolis, I’ve developed my own…
This concrete floor installation in Halle, Germany, is one of the most interesting pieces of public art I’ve seen. Created by Dagmar Schmidt, the ‘Grabungsstaedte’ represents…
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We’re unlucky to have chosen a name for this blog that is mostly associated with the paper-sort of pop-up architecture. You’ll understand what I mean by this video…
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Rough Trade is definitely one of the coolest music stores in London. Besides LPs, EPs and CDs, magazines, books and T-shirts, Rough Trade sells inspiration. It’s…
Brazilian visual artist Ernesto Neto has made this great fantasy space at museum Booijmans van Beuningen in Rotterdam.…
Japanese architects Jo Nagasaka and Schemata Architecture Office have designed the PACO. PACO is a complete house in a cube of three by three meters.
PACO…
Look what we’ve got here. Greenhouse, the first eco-friendly nightclub of the United States, recently opened its doors in New York City. Antonio Di Oronzo of
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
After we lost the fishmonger and the mobile ice seller in the streets of the post-war modernist neigbourhoods, this flexible coffee bar might be the solution for revitalising the urban…
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