Office Life In The Middle Of A Forest
This is where you want to work, no matter what job you have. Madrid-based architects Jose Selgas and Lucia Cano of Selgascano have designed their new office, located in the woods near the city. They created a fantastic dreamy tunnel-like space with a north-facing wall of 2 centimeters thick, curved window made of transparent acrylic. The opaque, southside is constructed from a thick, […]
A Physical eBay in Rotterdam
Buying second hand stuff, especially at websites like eBay, has some disadvantages. For instance, you cannot try or feel the product you plan to buy beforehand. Albert Richters, a student at the Delft University of Technology, invented an 'eBay Pavilion' to be built in Rotterdam.
What Future Should Look Like
Dutch architecture office NL Architects present this series of images in the Italian Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale. Their wonderful impressions perfectly relate to the Age of Experience and make clear how humanity can deal with current social, urban and environmental problems in a positive, sometimes utopian way. The left picture above shows ‘Google […]
Advanced Seed Bombs By Jin-Wook Hwang
You might know the seed bomb. Yeah, those small clay balls loaded with seeds. After being dropped in public space, rain will melt the clay to expose the seeds, and the bombs will grow. Seed bombs are fun and an easy way of guerrilla gardening. Designer Jin-Wook Hwang from South Korea came up with the […]
PROOFF's Transportable Office Of The Future
Jurgen Bey, one of the key figures of the Dutch Design movement, has started a new platform called PROOFF to rethink to office. PROOFF, which stands for ‘Progressive Office’, is meant for sharing knowledge and exchanging ideas regarding the improvement of working life and all around it. To realise products, PROOFF works together with national […]
Floating Market Pops Up in Amsterdam
Markets are definitely among the most attracting urban places, linking communities and people of differerent cultural backgrounds. The temporary floating market, that popped up July 6 in North Amsterdam is an experiment aiming to find out what markets could mean regarding the neutralisation of spatial and cultural barriers. The Johan van Hasseltkanaal forms a spatial […]
The World Of Underground Restaurants
Subtle is beautiful. As small, semi private house parties mark the new nightlife and projects like the Pirate Cinema manifest a new way of cultural entertainment, the underground dining movement is also developing itself and is becoming a feature of the culinary landscape. Nowadays, many people are looking for new community-based alternatives for dining and […]
Rooms Of Red Bull: Stimulate Your Mind
Another creative space in Amsterdam officially opened its doors yesterday: the so-called Rooms of Red Bull. For three months during summer, Rooms of Red Bull will be a temporary hotspot of inspiration and creation. The project is a collaboration of Red Bull and housing corporation Ymere, which owns the property after a rip deal in the […]
A Table That Eats Itself
Atema Architecture’s ‘Auto-Cannibalistic Table’ is made out of egg cartons, flour paste, soil and seeds. When water is added, the seeds germinate and the table literally eats itself. I’m not sure whether this is a useful piece of recycled furniture or a plant in itself. At this blog we’re interested in places and spaces adaptable […]
Bratislava's Upside Down Highway
Dutch office NL Architects have transformed a boring and brutal modernist facade in Bratislava to an upside down highway. The project is presented at an exhibition of the work of NL Architects in the Slovenská Národná Galéria (Slovakia National Gallery) that is located behind the uplifted facade. The project, which is called ‘Feel the Difference’, […]
Social Media Help Flowers Growing
Publicity Plant is a social interaction installation designed by Sander Veenhof. The installation lets plants grow through us writing about it on the Internet. The more web publicity the project gets, the faster the plants will grow in their special greenhouse. Flowers are social organisms. As we know, trees like to be hugged, and plants […]
Inflatable Architecture: Spacebuster NYC
We simply love inflatable architecture, or 'bubbletecture'. It pops up and disappears and it's highly flexible. Furthermore, inflatable structures can easily upgrade public space by establishing a whole new atmosphere. Check out our previous articles on inflatable projects here, here and here. The so-called Spacebuster by Raumlabor is another exciting project worth mentioning.
Guerrilla Gardening In Newspaper Boxes
Toronto-based street artist Posterchild has been turning unused newspaper boxes in his city into planters. Very nice work. “I’ve always been amazed by the state of most flyerboxes. (…) Some haven’t been filled in years. Yet, there they are: everywhere in the city (…) taking up valuable sidewalk space. (…) For whatever reason, a great […]
Roofscapes And Hut Architecture
Huts are inspiring, mostly because they remind of childhood. Treehugger reports about this interesting rooftop hut. The sustainable hut is provided with solar panels and natural isolation material. “The hut contains a sliding glass roof, solar panels, wood-burning stove and sheep’s wool insulation the building takes ideas from both hide-away tree houses and the suburban […]
'Downhill' Bike Rally In An 11-Floor Building
Red Bull outshines with extraordinary campaigns to promote its energy drink, such as the international Red Bull Air Races and the recently opened venue Rooms of Red Bull in Amsterdam’s Red Light District. The brand knows how to reach its audience by perfectly adapting to the Age of Experience. In March, it organised an exciting […]
