Landpeel: The Flexible Life Mat
Landpeel is great innovative floor mat system that enables users to adapt the floor to their specific interior needs. The Landpeel is more than a floor mat — it’s a modular system that can be transformed into chairs, tables and workstations by the simple act of lifting the panels. The idea of the Japanese designer […]
My Green City: Back To Nature With Attitude And Style
Nowadays, nature and cities seem more than ever two different, distant realities. Often, when we need a lapse of green, we decide to leave the city to look for an oasis, far away from traffic and concrete. But what about green spaces inside the city? what about a new relationship with nature in our own […]
Blogging The City
On Thursday 12 May we will be doing a talk at the Blogging the City conference in Berlin on the latest urban trends that we spotted. Blogging the City is a joint venture of Urbanophil and Architekturvideo and will be taking place at the Uferhallen. The Internet has become the most powerful communication infrastructure developed […]
Night Of The Bicycles
Last summer in Moscow a few hundred cycling and architecture enthusiasts gathered at midnight to take part in a 22 kilometre, five-hour bicycle tour of the city’s architecture. Participants came equipped with bike pumps, helmets, headphones and an FM radio and were guided through the city via a broadcasted audio tour. That year participants were taken […]
An Indoor Tree For A Greener Future
In order to support a more sustainable atmosphere on the work floor, Vanabbetotvessem (a Dutch marketing and communication office) has designed the Binnenboom (Indoor Tree). The Binnenboom can be installed in almost every office in the world, as it takes the prototypical office ceiling system as a starting point. The project is explained as a contribution […]
Turn The City Into A Night Club With The Mobile Disco Ball
Smart has turned one of their new electric cars into a movable disco ball. The special two-seater is covered with reflective glass discs from nose to boot, and even the windows are mirrored. The thousands of tiny mirrors give a stunning effect when the car drives through the city. During the day the Sun is […]
Cool Ideas
In the context of the Festival of Ideas for the New City, a gathering of independent cultural projects for Manhattan showing the potential of the creative community to imagine the ideas that will shape the future, Urban Omnibus is presenting a series of clever posters entitled ’50 Ideas for the New City’ a nice series of retro-style […]
A Secret Car Park
The people of San Francisco-based Beausoleil Architects have transformed the ground floor of a monumental Victorian house near Ashbury into a secret parking space. Due to a lack of parking spots in this San Francisco neighborhood, parking inside the building was a necessity for the owner, explains The Presurfer. Sacrificing a part of the ground […]
Find Your Creativity At The Lost Sock
The Lost Sock is often empty and very, very quiet, but useful for drying sheets when it rains for days on end (and yes it does rain in Tasmania). My local laundromat is a perfectly functional space, but boring. Your nearest laundromat may be a bit like mine, a place where nothing much happens. Imagine […]
The Roller Coaster Of Death
Lithuania-born and London-based designer, artist and engineer Julijonas Urbonas has proposed a true suicide machine in the form of a rollercoaster. His ‘Euthanasia Coaster’, a plan created in 2010, is engineered to humanely take the life of a human being, with elegance and euphoria. In other words, this roller coaster is especially designed to gently […]
Shoe Box Apartment Turned Into Luxury Loft
Tiny apartments are everywhere and most city dwellers around the globe actually live in one. When you live in such a tiny apartment or urban shoe box, the only thing you have got to do is grab your phone and call the Spanish architects of ARQUITECTURA-G. They did a great job in transforming this 366 […]
Public Design Festival 2011: A Report From Milan
Deep down in the suburbs of Milan, a campsite is situated under a highway. It’s the Public Design Festival, an initiative promoted by Esterni agency, which aims to spread knowledge and sensibility regarding themes related to public space. Happening in various areas throughout the city of Milan during the famous Salone del Mobile, the Public Design Festival […]
Bird City: Collective Housing For Birds
Dutch designer Eveline Visser has created a beautiful collective bird house called Bird City. The installation gives a potential home to an entire population of up to 33 unique species. Inspired by the huge community of different birds that live in the city, Visser has designed this neighborhood for birds. Like with people, every different type […]
Tweet Land: Arcade-Like Game Based On Real-Time Tweets
Tweet Land is an interesting new platform for video games that are able to interact with real-time happenings on Twitter. The arcade-like game-play integrates things and situations people in your social network tweet about. When someone, for instance, tweets about a plane crash, you’ll have to deal with this in the game you play. When […]
A Parasite Chair To Wear
It is hard to find a good, clean and comfortable place to sit in the dense and over-designed urban jungle these days. The guys from the Austrian design agency Undpartner came up with a solution to this problem. Their design is a chair to wear, a mix between a piece of jewelry and a piece […]
