Beer Bottle Christmas Tree
Dutch beer brand Heineken built a huge Christmas tree right in front of the Nanjing road mall in Shanghai, China. The tree consists of 1,000 bottles of Heineken’s export beer. It’s still not clear whether these bottles are full or empty, no-one in blogosphere has taken the effort to go to China and check it, […]
Sushi-Like Capsule Hotel From Tokyo
Masaaki Hiromura and Takaaki Nakamura from Design Studio S, an agency based in Roppongi in Tokyo, made this proposal for a very exciting capsule hotel. Recently the concept, called 9h/Nine Hours, was exhibited in the Axis Gallery in Tokyo. Reason enough for the design blogs Mocoloco and SpaceInvading to bring it to attention. 9h/Nine Hours is a beautiful design for a short-stay sleeping accommodation, dealing with the inconvenience of the hard working business men in Tokyo.
Public Phenomena By Temporary Services
“Dedicated to all of the uncredited modifiers, inventors, communicators, and public citizens whose work has changed our common landscape.” This is the first line of the publication ‘Public Phenomena’ by Temporary Services. The book is a celebration of urban interventions of the smallest kinds by ordinary citizens, entrepreneurs or artists, all uncredited and not done for the […]
Turning Times Square Into Art Square
Last week I came across designer Justus Bruns who told me about his ambitious idea to temporarily transform New York’s Times Square into Art Square. “Times Square to Art Square is a very complex project with a simple goal: to turn all advertising on Times Square into art.” Although the official website is still in its […]
New: Cities The Magazine
We just received some information about the launch of a brand new magazine about the urban sphere, entitled Cities. The first edition, which is a test issue (Volume 00), is available online and contains articles of contributors from all over the world. The magazine sheds a light on some interesting urban themes such as raw […]
MediaWharf And MediaSpree: A Comparative Analysis, Part 2
“Increasingly, media has become a global business, in which multinational media conglomerates have their branches all over the world, but show a strong tendency to cluster their headquarters and main production facilities in a highly selective group of ‘global media cities’.”
MediaWharf And MediaSpree: A Comparative Analysis
Hamburg has its HafenCity, London transformed the Canary Wharf area into a new business district, and Copenhagen built a new cultural center at former navy base. Over the last decade, spatial redevelopment of former naval areas and harbors came on the front-line in spatial planning in Western European cities. The same kinds of developments have […]
Lock Your Bike With Your iPhone
Hi fellow Flying Dutchman, good news for us here. A new wheel makes it possible to lock your bike with your iPhone. The Copenhagen Wheel is considered to be one of the most interesting cycling innovations since the invention of the wheel itself. “The Copenhagen wheel transforms ordinary bicycles quickly into hybrid e-bikes that also […]
Robot-Printed Facades
Before, we already introduced the Nike Chalkbot used to add supporting and commercial texts to the streets during the Tour de France. Here’s a new public domain printing installation, this time made for vertical surfaces. The Facadeprinter is a simple, software controlled robot. It consists of a two-axis turntable and a print head (paintball machine) […]
Tokyo Blues
Helsinki-based photographer Nurri Kim recently released the first Do Projects book Tokyo Blues in collaboration with former Tokyo-resident Adam Greenfield.
The Phone Box Experiment
In The Netherlands we don’t have callable phone booths, so as a youngster I was fascinated by American thrillers in which someone passed a public telephone that suddenly got called. Most of the times the hell broke loose as soon as that curious pedestrian answered the call. (I think you all know the movie Phone […]
Jewellery Pops Up In A Hardware Coat
If you were to go to the Red Light District in Amsterdam, for a long time it was obvious what you would get to see. Since a few years however, that has somewhat changed. Red Light Fashion and Red Light Art replaced the prostitutes behind the windows and gave it a new impulse. That also […]
Terrarium, A Sonic Experience Dreamscape
Amsterdam-based interaction designers Theodore Watson and Emily Gobeille created this stunning interactive installation back in 2008, but it’s still worth posting it. Terrarium is an electronic dreamscape that listens to the visitor’s voice. This leads to a dynamic experience of an almost perfect and super neat underwater world. The participants are drawn into a new […]
Image-Based City Modeling
Some time ago a friend told me that when he was a young boy, his mom explained him that at the time he would be an adult, mankind wouldn’t have to work any more, as machines and robots should have taken over all jobs by that time. Twenty years later it seems that the post-Fordist […]
New Lives For Old Phone Booths
The use of phone booths is declining. (I know I’m beating a dead horse now.) Even tourists favor buying a cheap-ass prepaid phone instead of visiting a phone booth when they want to make a call. Phone booths are an old, location-dependent concept, so we have a serious surplus of them on the streets and […]
