As a new icon for Amsterdam, Rietveld Landscape proposes JackUpCity. JackUpCity is a plan to reconnect Amsterdam with its harbor area. Since decades most…
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Earlier this week I speculated about the spectacular changes that the development of the 3D printer could bring to our lifes, economies and cities. One of…
“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…
Amsterdam-based interaction designers Theodore Watson and Emily Gobeille created this stunning interactive installation back in 2008, but it’s still worth posting it.
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Some time ago a friend told me that when he was a young boy, his mom explained him that at the time he would be an adult, mankind…
The financial pyramid game that Dubai was, shows to have collapsed. When I started studying urban design ten years ago, I would never believe a city to be…
This is the first time that we react on the news of the day. But with the unexpected and rather predictable collapse of the Dubai bubble we have…
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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.…
Wonder how to make easy DIY furniture for the urban realm? The French artist Cedric Bernadotte came up with this interventions made from stretch…
The decline of Detroit is often explained by the fall of the Fordist economy in the city after the global shift to Post-Fordism. In…
The next battle for international cities might be the competition for open source-ness. Which city has the most initiatives using words like ‘crowdsourcing’, ‘city 2.0′, ‘open source’ and…
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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…
On the Architectural Scholar blog I found a four minute video containing a selection of contributions from miscellaneous architectural practitioners. Main topic is the future of our cities. Just…
