Dezeen reports about the semi-translucent bar that designers Diogo Aguiar and Teresa Otto have built for a competition of the Universidade do…
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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In August I wrote about a walking grill in Berlin. My article triggered Junk Jet Magazine to invite me to contribute to its third volume.…
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…
Posted in Headline, International Practices | Also tagged amsterdam, Architecture, bar, berlin, cologne, design, flexible, mobile, pub, public space, staalvilla, vans |
Haven’t heard from Levi’s in a while. Therefore it’s nice to see them doing something that at least draws my attention. As a boy I didn’t have Levi’s 501, which…
In a modern metropolitan experience-focused society everything is about the ‘momentum’ — clubs, shops and bars, among others, are hot the first two years before they slip back into oblivion. We’re…
Posted in Headline, International Practices | Also tagged clothing, concept, fashion, flexible, london, momentum, shop, store, strategy, style |
By Jesse Jorg | Published:
Thursday December 10, 2009
If you were to go to the Red Light District in Amsterdam, for a long time it was obvious what you would get to see. Since a few years however,…
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,…
Today we celebrate article number 300 on The Pop-Up City. No champaign though at our office in Amsterdam, but a serious article about Russian pop-up culture.…
Die Wende and the German reunification twenty years ago inspired us to look back and find out about pop-up culture in the former Deutsche Demokratische Republik (DDR). One of the…
Yesterday someone pointed me to a fresh photo exhibition in the heart of Hamburg’s district of St. Pauli and bordering neighbourhoods, titled ‘All Over the Kiez’. This project…
Online fashion retailer Roktic has opened one of the heaviest short-term pop-up stores I’ve ever heard of. For only one week Roktic will land at the East Gallery at London’s fashionable Brick…
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…
Posted in Headline, International Practices | Also tagged art, cardboard, design, installation, interior, mobile, office, vienna, working, workplace |
The city of Amsterdam is about to take a former pirate broadcasting platform to the shores of its to-be-built Spaarndammerhout neighbourhood. This so-called REM…
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Marseille-born and Amsterdam-based artist Laurence Aëgerter is about to launch a new episode in her ‘Opening Soon/Opening Now’ series in Amsterdam. Currently she is busy turning…
