HEL YES! Helsinki Food And Design
HEL YES! brings the tastes and designs of Helsinki to a pop-up restaurant for 15 days in Kalasatama, an old harbor area in Helsinki.
Drawing In The Dark
Most street artists wait for the night to come to begin their performance. Some of then, while acting in the shadow, play also with the shadow itself, leaving a printed memory of an ephemeral shape originally drawn by a road light, or interacting with the shape created in the very moment it is projected. It […]
A Trashy Hotel
The world’s oceans contain 46,000 pieces of plastic per square kilometer. The ‘Great Pacific Garbage Patch’, or the ‘Pacific Trash Vortex’, an unintentional garbage artwork made by mankind, is expected to be twice the size of France. To raise awareness for these shocking facts, Corona launched its Save the Beach campaign, which addresses the issue of beach and […]
Geometry Has A New Perspective
Perspective, illusion and architecture. These are the elements of the work of the Swiss artist Felice Varini. He creates big, colorful, illusionary shapes by painting different surfaces in distinct levels, which, if seen from one unique perspective, suddenly converge into one image, a geometrical and well-defined shape. Varini works in situ choosing an interior or […]
Corruption, Secrecy And 'Immapancy'
The last year in India was full of scams, corruption charges, leaked telephone conversations, privacy debates and protests against farcical court judgements. And all that made me think how ‘immapancy’, a lack of geographic knowledge, plays a deep role in facilitating corruption and scams, in preserving secrecy. The term ‘immapancy’ has been put into action […]
An Inflatable Homage To Childhood
Walter is an enormous white inflatable bunny created by Singapore-based illustrator, artist and all-round creative Dawn Ng. Her creature measures 6 by 4 meters and was inserted in different places throughout Singapore's landscape of standard flats and heartland enclaves, in order to create scenarios filled with surprise and wonder. She took Walter to 30 different spots in and around the city. By placing something surreal in a totally 'invisible normal' scenery, Ng aims to enable people to rediscover the beauty of places and the extraordinary in their everyday lives.
Book Review: Bracket [On Farming]
Anticipation and trepidation are two appropriate words to describe the feeling I had prior to the release of the debut issue of Bracket — the new annual publication curated and edited by Archinect and InfraNet Lab and published by Actar. The anticipation was due in general to the great work that InfraNet Lab has been doing […]
Giraffe: A Portable Space Divider
This is Giraffe, a "portable space divider" designed by Kawamura Ganjavian, an architecture and design studio based in Madrid.
Social Housing For Crabs
For their solo show ‘Moving Sideways’ at the Tang Contemporary Art gallery, the Hong Kong-based architects of MAP Office built a residential building for a community of 100 sea crabs. Their installation consists of 24 identical aquariums (four towers stacked at six storeys high) and represents a standardized social housing unit which you can find plenty […]
The Hanging Garden Of São Paulo
When art meets nature, in any of its shapes, I am always happy to spend some time of my researches on the results of this evergreen union. The project Margem Arte Publica (realized by Itaú Cultural and curated by the architect Guilherme Wisnik) saw different Brazilian cities, and their suburbs in particular, as new theaters of […]
The Green Room
Amsterdam-based artist Leonard van Munster (also known as the man behind this wicked vertical campsite) has made this little movable room completely consisting of green BASF isolation material. As a consequence of this material and the design, no external heating is needed to make the room a comfortable place to sleep in. For the project, […]
Fan Videos For Cities
Fan videos for musicians have become a pretty major part of the online video-streaming world. With increasingly accessible prices for digital video equipment, and user-friendly editing software, expressing your love for your favourite indie band through mash-up edits of kittens dancing on pianos has never been easier. But what if you’re a really big fan […]
DIY Movable Outdoor Kitchen
London-based designer Nina Tolstrup has created the so-called Outdoor Kitchen. Designed to facilitate the joy of cooking outside, the Outdoor Kitchen is a movable unit consisting of basic kitchen/garden gear that is available in hardware stores all over the world. The do-it-yourself cooking unit is made for outdoor purposes, but will function inside as well. It […]
The Dig Will Never End
Despite being hidden underground, the subway system, and metropolitan underground world in general, has been subject of great interest by new generations of urban explorers, including writers, photographers, urban historians, bloggers or any amateur who spent his or her time down city’s crust. Over the last time many blogs have featured underground exploration, so I […]
Farming In A Ruin
Some time ago we received an email from Marco Casagrande from Finland-based architecture firm Casagrande Laboratory about the very interesting Ruin Academy, an independent cross-over architectural research center in the urban core area of Taipei, Taiwan. The Academy, that is run in co-operation between the Finland based Casagrande Laboratory and Taiwanese JUT Foundation for Arts & […]
