How Waste Can Be Beautiful
What to do with the good old Compact Discs in the world of MP3, iTunes and Spotify? Don’t throw them away!Artist Elise Morin and architect Clémence Eliard used 65,000 old CDs to create an enormous installation called Waste Landscape in the world’s shiniest city Paris. Rolling hills of hand-sewed together disks of shiny metal in […]
Amsterdam’s Indoor Campsite
How the hell can we spice up a gray and boring business district? It’s one of Amsterdam’s main concerns. The so-called Zuidas, the city’s financial center under construction, is suffering from the current economic situation and bad urban planning. Bored bankers and the few posh people living in the too expensive penthouses have proven not […]
Graffiti Knitting Meets Plant Bombing
Aight, we’ve all heard about the yarn bombing/graffiti knitting/yarn storming trend that’s emerging in many cities around the globe. And also about the (somewhat older) plant bombing/guerrilla gardening trend. San Francisco-based urban knitter Heather Powazek Champ and guerrilla gardener Derek Powazek decided to combine their forces and came up with the the very best of both worlds. The […]
Connecting Continents
A mere 14.3 kilometers separates Africa and Europe at the narrowest point of the Strait of Gibraltar. This passage has been the subject of immense debate and speculation, with discussions on the creation of a physical connection between the two continents. The challenge may seem a trivial one… A bridge you cry! A tunnel! But bearing […]
Let’s Paint The World’s Ugliest City
With the project Couleurs Carolo, the Dutch company AkzoNobel aims to support the Belgian city of Charleroi to become a bit more colorful.
Female iPad Head Seduces Man In Bryant Park
Urban Shit reports about a great installations walking in New York City’s Bryant Park a couple of weeks ago. This female iPad head could have easily been an art project reflecting on current avatar culture. Maybe some critical statement about modern social media use as a replacement for real-life contact, and the devaluation of public […]
A Shit With A View
The architects of H3T, who have been mentioned before on this blog thanks to their Bike-0-Sauna, have come up with an illegal toilet providing the best view ever to its users. The Toilet with a View provides one of the most important qualities of a good toilet: privacy. It’s located far from everyone, and nobody […]
An Ephemeral Inflatable City
For its May 2011 edition, the architecture festival Bellastock focused on Architecture of Air and Textile. About 1,300 students, reknown architects and artists gathered to conceive and build together an ephemeral inflatable city in the Île-de-France region.
Change The Highway Into A Roulette Board
Volkswagen has introduced Car Roulette, a new gambling game. To stress the efficiency of the Golf Blue motion, the Norwegian advertising agency Try came up with an enormous roulette board with a Volkswagen Blue motion as the roulette ball. Using Google Maps Norway’s main road from south to north, the E6, was divided into 80,000 […]
Design, Download And Print Your House With WikiHouse
The next revolution in architecture comes without the architect. WikiHouse is the first open source platform for house design. It enables anybody, including non-design professionals, to design houses with Google’s free 3D design software SketchUp and instantly print and build them. Design your own dream house with the help of the crowd and a plywood printer. WikiHouse […]
Urban Exploring With Dérive
Dérive is a fresh smartphone application that enables users to explore the urban atmosphere in a totally new way through the use of randomly drawn task cards that tell you what to do. These cards are refreshed every three minutes, creating a sense of urgency in the exploration for new objects, things, colors and people to […]
Scrabble On The Wall
Right at the moment that Scrabble has made its global comeback thanks to the amazingly popular and hyper-addictive smartphone game Wordfeud, the Polish artist NeSpoon has introduced Scrabble on the city’s walls. The so-called Scrabble Project that RebelArt has stumbled upon was part of the ArtBoom Festival in Kraków. Although one would expect this project […]
The World’s First Ad Campaign You Can Kick
Adidas has rolled out a new urban marketing campaign in several metro stations in Shanghai. The German sports brand started what they call “the first campaign in history you can kick”. Bags, supplied by Adidas, are installed in the metro stations. Passers-by can use them when they’re annoyed by other travelers, their work, public transport […]
Social Container Architecture
Being the main facilitator of global exchange of commodities, hereby an important trigger of globalization, the ISO container has had an immense impact on transnational relations. Introduced for cargo handling in the shipping industry, containers have later grown increasingly popular as elements of architectural design. As construction material, their history of travels across the world might […]
Urban Hacking To Sell Bratwurst Along The German Highway
Along the German A9 Autobahn a creative entrepreneur did some hardcore urban hacking methods to sell traditional Thuringer Bratwurst. While his kiosk is situated on the other side of a fence, the owner brilliantly understood that he will sell quite some sausages, ice creams and drinks to the resting car travelers on their way from […]
