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A Physical eBay in Rotterdam

By Jeroen Beekmans | Published: Thursday June 11, 2009

Buying second hand stuff, especially at websites like eBay, has some disadvantages. For instance, you cannot try or feel the product you plan to buy beforehand. Albert Richters, a student at…

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Floating Market Pops Up in Amsterdam

By Joop de Boer | Published: Sunday June 7, 2009

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…

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The Market of the Future

By Jeroen Beekmans | Published: Thursday May 28, 2009

Rotterdam is boosting its pre-war downtown Laurenskwartier district by planning a brand new iconic market hall. Architecture office MVRDV came up with a spectacular…

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A Typical Friday in Brands

By Jeroen Beekmans | Published: Tuesday May 19, 2009

How do brands affect our daily lives? Blogger Jane Sample tried to visualise how many brands she has been using on an ordinary Friday. Nice work!

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Newbanking: Make More Money?

By Joop de Boer | Published: Monday March 30, 2009

A crisis is a terrible thing to waste. That’s what the guys of SPAARbOD must have thought. In these times of financial disorder, there seems to be place…

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Art Market Amsterdam

By Jeroen Beekmans | Published: Sunday February 15, 2009

On Sunday March 1, a new pop-up art market will take place in the Wijdesteeg parking garage in Amsterdam. Here you will find young leading artists selling their products, fresh…

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Public Farming in New York City

By Joop de Boer | Published: Friday January 23, 2009

New York architecture office WORK has made a temporary Public Farm. The installation in Queens is the winning submission for the PS1 Young Architect Program by…

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Mumbai’s Urban Left-overs

By Joop de Boer | Published: Saturday January 10, 2009

One good thing of all those people traveling to India is that they take pictures of all kinds of phenomena that are somehow strange to our Western perspective, and share…

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Hyper Flexibility In Bangkok

By Jeroen Beekmans | Published: Tuesday June 24, 2008

Market places are definitely one of the most classical and well known examples of flexible use of space. Thanks to Flickr and YouTube we found out that flexibility in Thailand…

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