WiFi To Get G(r)eeks To The Green
The local government of Athens must have been concerned about the pale skin of the local nerds. Flickr user Tribalddb.Athens made these pictures of a park in Athens provided with free wireless Internet. This must be a great stimulance for geeks and other workaholics to visit the city’s green spaces. Actually, I believe this is […]
The Market Of The Future
Rotterdam is boosting its pre-war downtown Laurenskwartier district by planning a brand new iconic market hall. Architecture office MVRDV came up with a spectacular design for a semi open air market with a roof. The building includes 246 residences, that form an arc that covers the open market area. The interior will be entirely covered […]
Lots Of Policemen, Few People
Rebel Art and Wooster Collective report about the latest project of Madrid-based street art collective Luzinterruptus. Goal of this guerrilla project in the Malasaña district is to make people aware of the brutal manifestation of police forces before and during the ‘2 de Mayo’ celebration in Madrid. “It is considered a high risk period and […]
The Greatest Public Toilet Ever
Thanks to Dutch blog Het Zesde Vlak we found out about a fantastic public toilet in Rotterdam by Monica Bonvicini (thanks Trendbeheer!). The toilet was part of the Rotterdam City of Architecture 2007 festival. The cabine, which can be considered a brilliant piece of artwork, has mirrored walls from the outside. From the inside, however, […]
Top 20 of the World’s Best City Icons
City marketing is hot for already 20 years. I believe this is not a hype but a necessary consequence of the fact that cities have to compete in an international field in which accessibility of places and information has grown exponentially. At the same time, most people in the modern world have the freedom to choose where to go and what to like. Borders open up and economic welfare gives us choice at another level. We don't have to go where work is located, but find ourselves in the luxury position to go where things are attractive or interesting.
Independent Fashion Pop-Up Store Amsterdam
Urban flexibility is one of our main focuses at Golfstromen. Therefore we are proud to announce a new chapter in our story of temporary use of vacant urban spaces. Along with upcoming fashion labels OntFront and Nuzyn we have transformed our project space in downtown Amsterdam, which consists of two former prostitution rooms, into a […]
LEGO Dispatch Work In Berlin
We came across the work of Berlin-based artist Jan Vormann, who combines his passion for both LEGO and dispatch work. Vormann started his own bottom-up reconstruction project fixing walls and buildings in Berlin by putting colourful plastic LEGO bricks between the old stones. The results are interesting pieces of shiny street art. “Centuries of ‘Savoir-Vivre’ […]
The City Is An Organism
A city should be considered an ever changing organism instead of something static. Charles Darwin’s famous quote “It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change” contains an important principle that also applies to cities. I recently […]
NYC’s High Line Reclaims Green Space
A couple of months ago we blogged about the High Line, the urban transformation project in New York City. What was once an old traintrack trough Manhattan will be a next generation park across the city. Landscape wins terrain in densed parts of the city through the process of reclaiming the landscape. People in Rotterdam […]
Earthmine: Digital Street Art In Digital Cities
Earthmine is an interesting 3D mapping application that uses a Google StreetView-like environment extended with a virtual layer on the buildings upon which users can draw legal graffiti. With Earthmine, people are able to freely express themselves and their ideas in ‘real places’ without getting arrested. Just like in the real world, it’s possible to get graffiti […]
Improv Everywhere: Causing A Scene
The work of the famous Improv Everywhere group is now captured in a book and has become mature as a new form of performance art. The book ‘Causing a Scene’ reports about eight years of street improvs around the world, done by Charlie Todd and Alex Scordelis. Some videos of these events have been viewed […]
New York's Vertical Farm
A logic result of the current urban farming trend is making the good old farm fit with the urban structure. Different architects and city planners around the world are playing with the idea of so-called vertical farming. For instance, take a look at the website of the ‘Vertical Farm Project’, which aims to give a […]
A Typical Friday In Brands
How do brands affect our daily lives? Blogger Jane Sample tried to visualise how many brands she has been using on an ordinary Friday. Nice work! Click here to check it out. “I have to admit that I was pretty surprised at how at how big this thing got once I started working on it. […]
Vote For The Worst Art Exhibition Title Ever
Since January, eight former prostitution spaces in the west part of downtown Amsterdam are temporary transformed into working and living spaces for international artists. They participate in the exhibition Red Light Art. This art project is a collaboration between housing assocation De Key (who bought the brothels to redevelop them into high class city apartments), […]
Grass For The Office
Who doesn’t want a piece of nature in the office? The designers of Nine99 created delicious grass squares to give a natural touch to the office or home by placing them freely or according to feng-shui. The entire project is made of recycled materials and tries to merge the home with the outdoors. “Unlike ordinary […]
