Blogger Interview 1: Alain Bieber (REBEL:ART)
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. We kick […]
The Blogger Interview Series 2011
This Summer we present a series of short interviews here on Pop-Up City, which emerged from our profound fascination with other blogs, the people behind them, and all (often unpaid) efforts that go into it. We invited a number of our favorite bloggers to answer six questions not only about their passion for blogging, but also their […]
Living Large In Narrow Houses
Architect Bassam El-Okeily describes the concept of The Narrow House (see photo below, taken by Tim van de Velde) as follows: “What‘s a house? A space to live, To project our happiness between four walls, Then to spread out our vanity outside these walls. Can there be space for something else? A space for our melancholy, our scars, […]
Detachable Floating Capsule Hotel
Wouldn’t it be great to independently float around in your own capsules on the blue water of a sea anywhere in the world? Ivan Filipovic has designed a completely flexible floating hotel. His ‘botel’ consists of 22 small cabins that can be disconnected from the central mother boat. The core comprises a lobby, restaurant, bar and […]
The Pussycar: An Automodule That Does Wheelies
The Pussycar, or Automodule, was the name of a promotional vehicle made by Jean Pierre Ponthieu in Paris in 1986. Ponthieu is said to be a mad French genius who used to work in advertising, known as the Buckminster Fuller of this field. His Pussycar was described as ‘the car of the year 2000′, which obviously was a misjudgment. […]
From Design To Hacktion
Fabrique | Hacktion designs small-sized objects to twist and improve urban and collective spaces. Recharges for mobile phones rehabilitate declining phone boxes. Grafted to public walls, coat racks create hospitable places. Light signals on top of train ticket machines enable the travelers to check the state of the terminal from a distance.
Kiosk Decides Whether It's Art Or Fart
We can discuss a lot about the quality of art, but we don’t have to. When surfing around I came across this rather funny kiosk which checks the quality of your artwork. This is how it works. Just pay a small fee and insert an artwork. The machine will automatically determine the artistic value of it. […]
Slide To The Train
It’s officially called a ‘transfer accelerator’ by Dutch railway maintenance company ProRail, but everyone else would say it’s a slide. An awesome slide. Installed next to a stairway at the newly renovated railway station Overvecht in the city of Utrecht, the slide offers travellers the opportunity to quickly reach the railway tracks when they’re in a hurry. But above all, the slide is a great instrument to make the city more playful. The ‘transfer accelerator’ was designed by Utrecht-based firm HIK Ontwerpers, and installed as the final piece of the renovation of the Overvecht railway station.
Review: IN SITU
We destroy and rebuild cities every day. We strive to map every inch and connect every bit of them. We inundate them with signs, messages, sounds. Do we understand them better in the end? Do we know ourselves better? No. We just go on and hope we’ll find some answers. What if we were actively […]
Fotomat Drive-Through Kiosk Looks For New Business
Once upon a time, Fotomat was a widespread suburban phenomenon in the United States. With over 4,000 drive-through photo kiosks mainly located at parking lots nearby supermarkets or strip malls, their appearance characterizes the suburban spirit of the mid-eighties. Most of these remarkable Fotomat kiosks have been abandoned since the service provided by the company […]
An Amphibious Quickie Through Amsterdam's Canals
What to do when having some spare time at the airport of Amsterdam? From July 20 it will be possible to take a bus to the historical city, do a canal tour and be back for your flight in only two hours. A quickie to Amsterdam without transferring once, all thanks to the innovative Amfibus. […]
A Mini-Camper For Bicycle Riders
We’re in a holiday mood. Thursday we posted about the SwissRoomBox, a portable modular living system for on the campsite, and here we’ve got a micro-caravan. Artist Kevin Cyr has designed a camper specifically meant for bicycle riders. The camper was part of a solo exhibition Home in the Weeds at San Francisco’s Geary gallery. But […]
Chicago Pop-Up Park
Many of you might have heard of pop-up park iniatives such as Park(ing) Day, which involves the transformation of urban parking spots into little pop-up parks. Joe Baldwin, founder of arts advocate organization Noisivelvet, must have thought that this can be done better. In conjunction with the Altgeld Sawyer Corner Farm, he turned nearly an entire Logan Square street […]
A Swiss Apartment In A Box
Some people like luxury, also when camping. Now it’s possible to bring a complete apartment on vacation, thanks to a Swiss design firm who have designed the SwissRoomBox. Springwise describes this new invention as the Swiss army knife among the apartments. The box is deep red, the same color as the remarkable knife, and has […]
Self-Service Bicycle Repair Station
Cycling becomes increasingly popular in big metropolitan centers around the globe. That is perhaps the reason why new services for bicyle riders start to become interesting business concepts. Bike Fixtation is a DIY bicycle repair station recently launched to serve stranded bicycle riders in the Minneapolis/St. Paul metropolitan area. The smart initiative offers self-service kiosks on an extended-hours basis for bicyclists.
