Urban Left-Overs: Berlin Vs. Amsterdam
This collection of pictures is the result of an excursion to Berlin, the City of Space. It shows the inverse spatial situation compared to Amsterdam. In Amsterdam, space is highly dominated by a balance of economic and political power. These pictures show the spatial circumstances in Berlin, characterized by openness, wideness and an ongoing energy of the urban subculture.
A Flexible Extension To Amsterdam’s Olympic Stadium?
Amsterdam's Department of City Planning has presented a plan for possible physical extensions to the city's Olympic Stadium. Architecture agencies Na-ma and Tom Bergevoet were the lucky ones to explore the extension possibilities.
OSA’s Campinski
The Office for Subversive Architecture (OSA) is a network of eight architects based in London, Vienna, Köln, Berlin and Frankfurt. The work of OSA is a blend of art and architecture, exploring the way people use and interact with public spaces, especially in relation to urban regeneration. For example the Campinski project. As part of Campinski workshop, held by OSA at the Darmstadt University of Technology, students were asked to transform specific locations in an industrial harbor in Frankfurt into living spaces using only white igloo tents.
Kubik
Kubik is a temporary light-room-installation created to inspirit unused urban space with an arrangement of water tanks, light shows and electronic beats. Stacked up tank-walls illuminated in different colours are composed to a piece of stunning architecture, which interacts with the beats of minimal electronic music.
Carl Rohde On Working Nomads And The Flexible City
Carl Rohde is a trendwatcher and the leader of a network of 'coolhunters' across the world. After many years of working as a professor at the University of Utrecht, Rohde now runs his trendwatch agency Science of the Time. Science of the Time produces scientific analysis containing large trends observed by his network of coolhunters. "Trends are sustainable developments which come up in a society", says Rohde. "That is something different than a hype, which is brief and less crucial." I spoke with Rohde about the 'Pop-up City', the new city dwellers, the so-called 'working nomads' and the demands of new hybrid lifestyles for the contemporary urban networks.
Hyper Flexibility In Bangkok
Market places are definitely one of the most classical and well known examples of flexible use of space. Thanks to Flickr and YouTube we found out that flexibility in Thailand can take really extreme forms...
Pop-Up Party In Berlin
Berlin is full of spontaneous parties in public space. During a trip we spotted a techno party near metro station Warschauer Straße.
This Blog And Pop-Up City
This blog is about everything related to the flexible city: dynamic and temporary architecture, urbanism, landscaping and planning. The Pop-up City Blog is part of the Pop-up City Laboratory in Amsterdam. At this blog we collect all kind of projects, designs and stories which deal with the concept of the so called ‘pop-up city’. The […]
