Between the seventies and nineties, Amsterdam’s international image has been shaped by prostitutes, marihuana and gays. The city’s administration tries to reset this impression of the Dutch capital…
Urbanism is marketing and marketing is urbanism. That could be a leading phrase of this blog. In fact, more and more marketing initiatives take the urban sphere as…
We are happy to announce a very special open air summer edition of the Pecha Kucha Night Amsterdam. It will all be taking place on Wednesday 23 June at the…
Posted in Headline | Also tagged 20x20, 3d printing, amsterdam, Architecture, design, golfstromen, lectures, media, pecha kucha, presentations, tolhuistuin |
Create your own own city online with the so-called Suicidator City Generator (SCG). The Suicidator City Generator is a rather funny piece of online software based…
Master plans, urban plans, and regional plans are most of the times extremely complex. Not only because a huge amount of actors is involved, but also because of a load…
Five people from the University of Michigan Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning transformed an abandoned house in Detroit into their own design lab. The students bought…
Two things are happening. First, needless to say, the role of the Internet in daily life is only increasing. Second, the role of city regions as strategic nodes in the…
Good news reached us today. Arkinet writes about the upcoming opening of Archigram’s archives, “with more than 4,000 drawings, models and audio tapes produced by Archigram…
Pachube, the online network for sharing of real-time data has come up with a plug-in for Google’s SketchUp. The plug-in connects the Internet of…
By Jesse Jorg | Published:
Thursday March 18, 2010
Wasted Spaces is a London-based non-profit art organization that transforms vacant shop fronts and unused properties into exciting art experiences. This attracts new audiences and gives them the…
As a new icon for Amsterdam, Rietveld Landscape proposes JackUpCity. JackUpCity is a plan to reconnect Amsterdam with its harbor area. Since decades most…
Posted in Headline, International Practices | Also tagged city marketing, drilling platform, floating city, harbor, icon, imagination, jack-up, landscape, offshore, shipping |
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…
