Food Follows Hunger: On Mobile Food Concepts
As people get more flexible, food has to come after them. Mobile food concepts increase in popularity. Recently all sorts of flexible food concepts had a tasty show off in Amsterdam. The Vespa Ape espresso bar that pops up at every market, is most the recognisible form of this trend. In London you’ll find them […]
Klaus Overmeyer On The Importance Of Urban Pioneers
In 2007, Overmeyer published a book called Urban Pioneers, in which he wanted to emphasise the strategic importance of temporary use projects for urban development. "Space pioneers open up new development prospects at disused sites that defy the bounds of traditional urban planning." Pop-Up City went to Berlin and talked with Klaus Overmeyer about urban pioneers, temporary strategies and urban developments in the German capital.
Pool Noodle Rooftop Party Space
Los Angeles-based architecture firm INABA have designed and installed a so-called ‘Pool Noodle Rooftop’ for the non-profit art group X-Initiative in Chelsea, New York City. The designers needed to find a light weight, easy to install material to create a large amount of seating for guests, so they came up with huge structures of pool […]
Norwegian Clouds Of Cardboard
Design studio Fantastic Norway created a dreamy, pixellated cloud of recycled cardboard for the student exhibition of the Norwegian Centre for Design and Architecture in Oslo. Their artwork demonstrates how beautiful a simple idea can be. “Being that the exhibition is set to present brand new design objects, we decided to base the architectural concept […]
Vertical, Mobile, Urban, Campsite
In order to give space intensive landscape functions a chance in a dense city, you should order them vertically. Think of farms. Or even campsites. Antwerp-based firm Import Export Architecture did so. They created a new, small scaled, vertical type of urban campsite. As you can see in the images, the campsite is pretty mobile […]
Built Overnight: Gecekondu in Sausalito Almere
At the ‘beach’ of Amsterdam’s new suburb Almere, our friends of DUS Architects have built an illegal temporary summer house slash hotel which opened its doors three days ago. The construction, which is built in one night, is completely made of typical plastic bags filled with sand. Gecekondu literally means ‘built overnight’. Gecekondu is a […]
Encastrable: Guerrilla Art in Megastores
Are highly commercial megastores and supermalls the new domains of guerrilla artists? Encastrable is an interesting urban project intiated by Paul Souviron and Antoine Lejolivet of the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs. The project consists of a series of guerrilla art residencies (seven at the moment) held inside gardening and DIY megastores in and around Paris. “At no […]
Space Making The Sexy Way
Brazilian visual artist Ernesto Neto has made this great fantasy space at museum Booijmans van Beuningen in Rotterdam. His work is made out of nylon and makes you feel like entering a fairytale. The installation is a composition of large, soft, biomorphic sculptures that fill the exhibition space. Viewers can touch them and even enter […]
Darmstadt's Pop-Up Theater
The architects of Berlin agency Convertible City have designed a great theatre transformation project in the German town of Darmstadt. During the recontruction of the theatre the parking lot under the building was used as a provisory performing space. This way the architects managed to transform an outdated, car-friendly functional building into a flexible city-friendly […]
Sim City Meets Google Maps
The creator of this three-dimensional pixel map of Hong Kong has put big efforts into this fantastic artwork. The unknown artist entirely pixeled the city of Hong Kong and linked it to the concept of Google Maps. His creation can be explored the same way you would fly over a normal map. This guy is a hero. Fantastic, […]
São Paulo: Clean City?
No outdoor advertising. No billboards, no neon signs, the electronic panels. No posters. No flyers. No ads on buses. No ads on trains. That’s São Paulo these days, Brazil’s largest city and the most populous one with 11 million inhabitants. According to Wikipedia, “São Paulo exerts strong regional influence in commerce and finance as well […]
On Bubblegum Architecture
As our posts about inflatable constructions and 'bubbletecture' are among the most popular on this blog, we'd like to show these rather classical examples of Urban Hubba Bubba Gum; bubbling as an urban style avant la lettre.
Spotted: Urban Camouflage
Urban Camouflage is a project by a group of German creatives who are inspired by the camouflage suits of snipers and hunters. The idea is simple: camouflage yourself in a megastore by using materials you find in the store itself, and blend into the surrounding. The project has a huge candid camera potential, but the […]
Brooklyn Rooftop Agriculture
The New Yorkers are busy reducing their foodprint, making plans to build skyscraper farms and doing experiments with innovative public urban agriculture. Green rooftop specialists like Chris Goode have a lot of work to do these days. Recently I came across an interesting rooftop farm project in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. On top of an industrial building […]
Pop-Up Café Opens in Amsterdam
Recently the Pop-Up Café opened its doors in West Amsterdam. “The Pop-Up Café is a temporary exhibition that will take place from June 6 until August 2 at Meneer de Wit Gallery in Amsterdam. It’s a place that looks and functions as a café. A place where you can socialize, drink coffee, experience art, read […]
