Tag Archives: pop-up

Temporary Bar Made Of IKEA Storage Boxes


Dezeen reports about the semi-translucent bar that designers Diogo Aguiar and Teresa Otto have built for a competition of the Universidade do

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A Floating Modular Park For Amsterdam

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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On Plug-In Retail

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.…

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Mobile Bus Bars

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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Levi’s Suddenly Pops Up Again

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…

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Roktic Pops Up Again At London’s Brick Lane

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…

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Jewellery Pops Up In A Hardware Coat

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,…

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The Pop-Up Lunch City

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,…

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Flexible Living The Russian Way


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.…

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Trabi Roof Tents And East German Holiday 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…

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Open Now: The St. Pauli Open Air Gallery

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…

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Online Shopping Gets Real For One Week In East London

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…

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The New Style Mobile Office

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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REM Island: Recycling Pirate Architecture

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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Opening Soon: Pop-Up Mini Swimming Pool

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…

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