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…
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…
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…
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!
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…
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…
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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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…
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…
