“Increasingly, media has become a global business, in which multinational media conglomerates have their branches all over the world, but show a strong tendency to cluster their headquarters and main…
Hamburg has its HafenCity, London transformed the Canary Wharf area into a new business district, and Copenhagen built a new cultural center at former navy base. Over the…
In an era in which the disciplines of architecture and urban design are injected with technology, we see new innovative software for urban design and modelling being launched.…
The first floating homes enter the new Amsterdam suburb of IJburg. This process goes very slowly, as there are 40 dwellings that have to be shipped…
Recently the first floating homes have been moved into the harbour of the new island neighbourhood IJburg in Amsterdam. IJburg is a brand new district in the eastern…
LimeWire founder Mark Gorton has recently announced to launch an application for open source urbanism, inspired by the peer-to-peer principle. Gorton’s goal is to stimulate “crowdsourced development, freely-accessible…
Posted in Headline, International Practices | Also tagged bottom-up, crowdsourcing, data, interactive, mapping, open source, portland, software, Technology, urbanism |
Many of mankind’s greatest achievements are products of the urban cauldron. That the density, heterogeneity and social environment of cities leads to more rapid innovation and idea sharing…
Klaus Overmeyer is a Berlin-based landscape architect. The philosophy of his office, UC Klaus Overmeyer, is deeply rooted in an optimistic attitude towards the contemporary landscape stimulating an…
Posted in International Practices, Interview, Theory | Also tagged amsterdam, berlin, city, development, economy, flexible, Interview, pop-up, Society, soft city, strategy |
Another creative space in Amsterdam officially opened its doors yesterday: the so-called Rooms of Red Bull. For three months during summer, Rooms of Red…
The financial crisis hits California hard. Take a look at these pictures and see what the recession does to real estate development.
“Streets and housing plots are seen…
Looking out the window of my small appartment in Amsterdam, I frequently spot this big heron bird hunting for fish, which is definitely not here to catch. As you might…
CityCAD is a relatively new software tool for architects trying to become a urbanist or planner. The 1.6 version has just been released. Considering the name, CityCAD shows…
Reading Italo Calvino’s novel ‘The Invisible Cities’, I found this great story about Zenobia, a flexible city avant la lettre. Calvino addresses perfectly the issue of a dynamic city…
This picture is shot a couple of years ago, during a holiday at the French westcoast close to the old pirate town of Saint Malo (which currently is a tourist…
Posted in International Practices | Also tagged beach, design, experience, flexible, france, landscape, recycling, saint malo, sea, Society, space, temporary |
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…
