The famous annual multidisciplinary conference TED is spreading across the globe. As of 2010, so-called TEDx events have been held in over 60 countries. Under the slogan ‘somethink…
Posted in Architecture, Headline, Interview, Technology | Also tagged Architecture, climate, energy, eneropa, eu, europe, european union, future, geography, green, Interview, marketing, oma, renewable, roadmap, sustainability, Technology, ted, tedxrotterdam |
One of these days Soundpiece will be installed in downtown Rotterdam. Soundpiece is a major permanent open air sound installation, meant to transform the Schouwburgplein into a permanent…
Posted in Headline, International Practices | Also tagged art, audio, city, culture, experience, festivals, program, public space, sound, soundscape |
For the best cappuccino at the Delft University of Technology you should pay a visit to the Sterk2 espresso bar located in the central hall of the architecture faculty. This…
Architecture office Van Bergen Kolpa and the researchers of Alterra propose to redesign the Dutch landscape as a supermarket. For ages the…
Posted in Headline, Theory | Also tagged agriculture, design, food, future, global warming, landscape design, landscaping, recreation, the hague, the netherlands |
Speaking about interesting spaces, two weeks ago I joined an excursion through the ‘problematic’ neighbourhood of North Rotterdam. Halfway we passed this incredible semi-public combination of a passageway…
In a tour with my students through the city of Rotterdam, we passed this amazing rooftop floating in the Rotte (the river that Rotterdam gave its name). This…
Last summer we reported about the Flying Grass Carpet, the huge pop-up landscape entirely made of artificial grass. The project of our friends, Rotterdam-based architecture and…
Posted in International Practices | Also tagged aachen, art, berlin, budapest, city, flexible, grass, landscape, landscaping, pop-up, public space, temporary, urbanism |
Brazilian visual artist Ernesto Neto has made this great fantasy space at museum Booijmans van Beuningen in Rotterdam.…
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…
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…
Thanks to Dutch blog Het Zesde Vlak we found out about a fantastic public toilet in Rotterdam by Monica Bonvicini (thanks Trendbeheer!). The toilet was part…
A couple of months ago we blogged about the High Line, the urban transformation project in New York City. What was once an old traintrack trough Manhattan will be…
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At this blog we generally aim to tickle you with new developments, designs and practices that are directly or indirectly related to the concept of the pop-up city. However, sometimes…
Designers Louwrien Kaptein and Menno Bolt have been producing a flexible interior for an artist consisting of four double panels, each with its own function. The interior consists…
