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…
If you’re in Amsterdam tomorrow, we’d like to sincerely invite you to drop by at the first official edition of the Nuit Blanche Amsterdam festival. Tomorrow night, five…
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This week, Amsterdam-based artist Leonard van Munster will be opening a squeezed vertical campsite in Amsterdam. The Camping is a project in a series of…
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Soon a mobile pop-up laundry truck will drive the streets of New York City. It will not only facilitate mobile laundry services but also asks people to donate…
Yesterday NOTCOT talked about the Coolhaus Ice Cream Truck that dropped by during the Architizer launch party at the A+D Museum in…
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Some days ago I came across an article on PSFK featuring Little World, a fresh user interface concept for mobile phones which was developed by Kevin…
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Today I stumbled upon a nice article by Rebel Art about a wicked, unusual mobile bar in Berlin that consists of four old vans. According to…
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To inform the world about their (free) Ovi Maps mobile navigation software, Nokia built a house-sized, interactive signpost in the form of a dynamically rotating…
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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In 2007 we fell in love with Spacecraft, a fantastic book published by Gestalten which presents inspiring “projects that meet the changing spatial needs…
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Many analysts and ‘trendwatchers’ believe Augmented Reality will become the big hit of 2010, but I have some doubts. Technological determinists tend to overlook the risk…
Improvement of public space is a hot topic these days. All kinds of idea makers seem to expand the function of the public realm by adding new objects,…
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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This camper bike is a project by artist Kevin Cyr. It’s a functioning sculptural piece, built in April 2008. Kevin describes his one man camper as…
In the Berlin district of Friedrichshain I came across this ‘Bratwurst’ selling girl close to train/subway station Frankfurter Allee. Observing her for a couple of minutes, her business seemed…
