Casulo’s Room-In-A-Box
I often imagine it would be great to just have a notebook, a folding table, a bed and a chair. That’s all one needs for working and sleeping, within a complete free and flexible lifestyle. Well, after seeing these pictures about a ‘room in a box’ there might be one more thing that you need — the Casulo!
Mumbai’s Urban Left-Overs
One good thing of all those people traveling to India is that they take pictures of all kinds of phenomena that are somehow strange to our Western perspective, and share them with their friends, relatives and the rest of the world.
Power-Napping Around The World
For LIPs (Location Independent Professionals) of this world, power-napping becomes more and more accessible. Most of them work for themselves and are not bound to manager’s old-fashioned ideas on targets and physical presence. For those people, who travel a lot, some facilities for quick sleeping are already initiated around the world.
Cardiff Temporary Central Library
This life-size bookshelf could be considered a temporary building concept in Cardiff, Wales. It will be there during the building of a new central library at the building spot right behind this scene.
Reanimation Of Ruins
The 'S(ch)austall Project' of Stuttgart-based FNP Architekten shows another perspective on the re-use of ruins and other abandoned buildings and can be considered a contribution to the vitality of the landscape by restoring and re-using its traditional landmarks.
The High Line
On Tropolism we found a few pictures of one of the nicest restructuring projects currently running: the re-skinning of New York's former High Line.
London Underground Dinner Party
The London Circle Line has always been a good place for illegal parties and more legal knitting sessions... But this romantic banquet within the raw urban context of the London tube is really wicked and a nice temporary reinterpretation of public space.
Club 11’s Comeback
Famous temporary club, restaurant and event space Club 11 Amsterdam is working on a comeback. Opening its doors March 2009, Club 11 pops up at a new temporary location: the printing plant in the former building of newspapers Het Parool and Trouw at the Wibautstraat.
Flexible Interior Units By Kapteinbolt
Designers Louwrien Kaptein and Menno Bolt have been producing a flexible interior for an artist consisting of four double panels, each with its own function. The interior consists of units that can be easily collapsed and taken to another site, wherever you want it to be.
Street Advertising The Flexible Way
Chicago-based brand marketing studio Alt Terrain is specialised is new collaborative marketing campaigns. They have designed a live mobile billboard to bring outdoor advertising to life.
Belgian Beer Cathedral
Well, it's Christmas, so let's talk about pop-up religion. We've found a nice temporary cathedral in Belgium...
MoMA: Pre-Fabricating The Flexible City
As we have proclaimed more often at this blog, the increasingly flexible context of modern lifestyle calls for dynamic solutions in our build environment. Already a century ago experiments with this thought have been launched. A great overview of all those efforts have been shown last summer at New York's Museum of Modern Art and are now brought together in the book Home Delivery: Fabricating the Modern Dwelling.
Flying Grass Carpet — A Landscaping Fairytale
Flying Grass Carpet is a huge carpet entirely made of artificial grass. It flies over the world as a temporary landscape, to land in all kinds of places where an extension of the landscape is needed. I visited the Flying Grass Carpet in Amsterdam, and talked about it with some people hanging around. The initial astonishment of most visitors was surprising: "Flying carpet? But… how does it fly?" That of course is the secret of this new instant landscape.
Space Inn’: Sleeping In A Temporary Design Project
Space Inn' is a temporary design project by Golfstromen which has recently opened its doors in downtown Amsterdam. Space Inn' offers two amazing rooms situated within a raw urban context of an abandoned building. Spend the time lying in a giant hammock overflowed by a green lightscape and feel like Lucy in the sky with diamonds... Or witness the urban interpretation of sleeping in a sultry haystack.
Take Your Home With You
After two years of work, a group of Japanese students has completed the build of a fantastic transportable home. The compact dwelling is based on a truck and has a pop-up second floor containing a cosy Japanese bedroom. It's hard to believe, but the mobile home also contains a kitchen, bathroom, deck and living area.
