Underground City By EVOL
Berlin-based street artist EVOL uses stencils and spray paint to transform urban walls and furniture into realistic and stunningly detailed buildings. For the upcoming MS Dockville Festival, he transplanted the city in a rural landscape in Hamburg, Germany. Visitors can walk through a miniature underground intersection. They can play like kids and just “pretend there […]
CityHub Hotel
Springwise writes about the Amsterdam’s CityHub hotel, that will be able to offer rooms for a mere €20 by rethinking the entire concept of a hotel. Within large empty buildings, small cabins will appear that’ll offer basic amenities such as a double bed, a plank for your suitcase, lighting, windows and a lockable door. Bathrooms […]
Fog And The Architecture Of Water
I am amazed by the physical and cognitive effects of the representation or the simulation of fog in art works. When looking at some paintings by Turner or Whistler, I can actually feel the thickness of the fog in my mouth. I remember well the ‘climatological and sociological’ experiment of Antony Gormley’s Blind Light. Visitors […]
Colors Against Cuts
Under the financial crisis, the ones who pay for the problems of governments and markets are usually the same as the ones responsible for making possible the development of a country, and not only under an economic point of view. I’m talking about health, education and culture. We are sadly used to see politicians trample on what represents the strength and pride of their countries, but when it happens in a place like the Netherlands, we are overwhelmed by a deep feeling of discouragement. Some weeks ago, the Dutch government announced a 40% cut to all cultural fundings (a measure approved on the 30th of June). This decision will fall not only on the heads of dutch citizens, but on every of us who has always looked at the Netherlands as a cultural headlight.
Roamler: Earn As You Explore
This new, Amsterdam-based organisation from Martijn Nijhuis and Wiggert de Haan enables users of the Roamler iPhone app to earn money by completing assignments given to them based on their location. Companies can outsource tasks that usually relate to marketing and promotion, and can range from checking a product’s placement within a store to the individual […]
Blogger Interview 5: Fabian Neuhaus (UrbanTick)
This Summer we present a series of short interviews here on Pop-Up City. We invited a number of our favorite bloggers to answer six questions not only about their passion for blogging, but also their city, work experience and inspiration. The result is a collection of stories on blogs and the people behind them. Number 5 […]
Urban Furniture: Social Sofas
Although cities bring people together, urban dwellers may well feel forlorn. “It is a pity there is little interaction between people in the streets,” Karin Bruers argues, “but the current condition of public space does not really help or invite either.” Back in the days, outdoor benches were key places for people to gather, discuss and […]
Blogger Interview 4: Filip Visnjic (Creative Applications)
This Summer we present a series of short interviews here on Pop-Up City. We invited a number of our favorite bloggers to answer six questions not only about their passion for blogging, but also their city, work experience and inspiration. The result is a collection of stories on blogs and the people behind them. Number 4 in this […]
Boxpark Pop-Up Mall
Boxpark is the world’s first pop-up shopping mall, comprising of 60 shipping containers stacked 2 floors high. Appearing in a goods yard next to Shoreditch High Street station this August, the new shopping complex will feature a varied mix of retailers to cater to all budgets, from mainstream brands to more the more niche, as well as […]
London Sky Orchestra
Yesterday, Londoners found themselves awoken by a strange ethereal soundtrack cast across the city. Seven hot-air balloons set off from Southwark Park towards Canary Wharf and Tower Bridge in the early hours of the morning, playing a composition by Dan Jones. The balloons also take off today and tomorrow, all to mark the year running […]
Blogger Interview 3: Régine Debatty (We Make Money Not Art)
This Summer we present a series of short interviews here on Pop-Up City. Weinvited a number of our favorite bloggers to answer six questions not only about their passion for blogging, but also their city, work experience and inspiration. The result is a collection of stories on blogs and the people behind them. Number 2 in this series is a […]
When A Domestic Trash Bin Becomes A Chair
Also the trash bin itself becomes trash at some point. Via Recycleart we stumbled upon these wicked upcycled chairs.
The Airplane Food Restaurant
Last week our friends of Amsterdam-based creative collective Les Oiseaux de Merde (‘The Shit Birds’ in English) organized the very first edition of the Airplane FoodRestaurant at Roest, one of the newest hotspots in the Dutch capital. The birds transformed an old hangar into a pop-up restaurant for 200 people that felt like anairplane interior. Stewardesses served the best meals […]
Blogger Interview 2: Ryan Mitchell (The Tiny Life)
This Summer we present a series of short interviews here on Pop-Up City. We invited a number of our favorite bloggers to answer six questions not only about their passion for blogging, but also their city, work experience and inspiration. The result is a collection of stories on blogs and the people behind them. Number 2 in this […]
Gentrification Battlefield At MoMA
Last year we created Gentrification Battlefield for the occasion of the Noord exhibition at new media and art institute Mediamatic in Amsterdam. The exhibition consisted of works by 22 artists in and about the district of Amsterdam-Noord (North Amsterdam). Gentrification Battlefield aimed to address the issue of gentrification processes in Noord by presenting a trailer […]
