As a new icon for Amsterdam, Rietveld Landscape proposes JackUpCity. JackUpCity is a plan to reconnect Amsterdam with its harbor area. Since decades most…
Posted in Headline, International Practices | Also tagged city marketing, drilling platform, floating city, harbor, icon, imagination, jack-up, offshore, shipping, urbanism |
Will the first Dutch hills be on water? Dutch architect Anne Holtrop collaborated with green technology firm Studio Noach and botanist and vertical garden…
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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…
Posted in Architecture, Headline | Also tagged amsterdam, culture, event, experience, flexible, floating, lifestyle, modular, pop-up, public space, scenes |
Amsterdam-based interaction designers Theodore Watson and Emily Gobeille created this stunning interactive installation back in 2008, but it’s still worth posting it.
Posted in Headline, International Practices | Also tagged amsterdam, art, cool, design, digital, experience, installation, interaction, nature, public space, sound, soundscapes, Technology, urbanism |
“The Japanese always seem to lead the list with weird and wacky ideas” is stated on the Optical illusions weblog. In addition, I would like to…
Sleeves for the iPhone are available in every single material and colour. The ‘WePhone’ (the public phone) on the contrary never had such a fancy jacket.
Of course…
Back in 2007, landscape artist Melle Smets built this amazing Tentstation in de Dutch Waddenzee close to the island of Terschelling. The…
Singapore’s Telok Blangah Hill Park is an amazing park structure consisting of different landscape types connected through a fly-over-like infrastructure. Within the context of the Weak…
Last summer we reported about the Flying Grass Carpet, the huge pop-up landscape entirely made of artificial grass. The project of our friends, Rotterdam-based architecture and…
Posted in International Practices | Also tagged aachen, art, berlin, budapest, city, flexible, grass, landscaping, pop-up, public space, rotterdam, temporary, urbanism |
After our recent report about the meanwhile disappeared Dutch Sausolito near Amsterdam, we should spend some of our time on this small floating island at…
A temporary shelter of red Umbrella’s has been constructed in the centre of Talca, Chile. The project is done by students Jaime Latorre and Pablo Retamal of the…
Posted in Headline, International Practices, Theory | Also tagged Architecture, art, chile, christo, city, land, landscaping, talca, temporary, urbanism |
Dutch architecture office NL Architects present this series of images in the Italian Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale. Their wonderful impressions perfectly relate to the…
Markets are definitely among the most attracting urban places, linking communities and people of differerent cultural backgrounds. The temporary floating market, that popped up July 6 in North…
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…
A couple of months ago we blogged about the High Line, the urban transformation project in New York City. What was once an old traintrack trough Manhattan will be…
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