Tag Archives: lifestyle

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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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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Tokyo’s Underground Dreamers

Metropolitan life can be close to a real survival. The daily struggle people in metropolitan areas around world have to undergo is one of the main themes in…

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Moving House By Double Bike

Currently Copenhagen seems to take over the position of world cycling capital from Amsterdam, considering the bicycle culture blog Copenhagenize and the amazing Copenhagen Wheel. Nevertheless,…

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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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Book Review: Hong Kong Inside

“A single image doesn’t tell you much, but seen as a collection, a pattern emerges to form a meaningful narrative.” This is the first sentence of the beautiful book

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NYC BigApps: The Final Results


Last October I wrote about some initiatives that aim to improve the so-called user-generated city. One of those initiatives is the New York BigApps competition,…

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Sushi-Like Capsule Hotel From Tokyo

Masaaki Hiromura and Takaaki Nakamura from Design Studio S, an agency based in Roppongi in Tokyo, made this proposal for a very exciting capsule hotel.…

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Lock Your Bike With Your iPhone

Hi fellow Flying Dutchman, good news for us here. A new wheel makes it possible to lock your bike with your iPhone. The Copenhagen Wheel is…

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DIY Nomadic Living

A few days ago I got remembered of Ken Isaacs’ classic book ‘How To Build Your Own Living Structures’ (which you can find in our online library) when I…

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Kitchen Farming By Philips

Philips is busy rolling out interesting new concepts related to the future of food production. Their so-called Biotower is such an idea. This new kitchen installation…

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Introducing the Erotic City

This single post can be considered a preambule of our upcoming series about the so-called ‘Erotic City’. Get prepared.

According to the Times, the blog

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7 Useful Tips to Explore the Cool City

It’s holiday time! But how to find cool places, bars, clubs, shops and restaurants in a city you’ve never been to? The only way not to land up…

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Food Follows Hunger: on Mobile Food Concepts

As people get more flexible, food has to come after them. Mobile food concepts increase in popularity. Recently all sorts of flexible food concepts had a tasty show…

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WiFi to Get G(r)eeks to the Green

The local government of Athens must have been concerned about the pale skin of the local nerds. Flickr user Tribalddb.Athens made these pictures of…

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