Interventions

Over the course of this parklet season, around 30 spots across the Austrian capital have already been transformed into outdoor meeting points.

Dutch artist, Willem de Haan, loves to take a humorous approach into his work. Strategically placed within the urban environment, his pieces will make you take a second look, and probably smile.

Public space around Rotterdam’s fancy high-rises isn’t the most social space. Local movement Happy Streets closed off one of the city’s streets to cars and opened it up to the people.

French visual artist Benedetto Bufalino has been giving a surprising new life to these outdated daily objects.

Nowadays, designer office spaces are becoming the norm for creative agencies around the world. In São Paulo, Brazil, the fancy digs are drawing concern to small neighbourhoods. Here’s how one agency is targeting the issue.

With this refreshing design, fire hydrants can double as water drinking fountains for the public and their pets.

With limited public space for children to play in Mexico City, an underused historic fountain has transformed into a lively urban playground.

Citizens of The Hague have the opportunity to swap their parking space for extra public space. Will this make urbanites reconsider car use?

Next level place-branding — the Dutch province of Friesland welcomed visitors with a road singing the regional anthem as they drove over it.