One Man’s Trash Is Another Kid’s Playground
Spanish design collective Basurama has built two inspiring playgrounds in Taipei using urban waste material such as discarded lamp posts and water tanks.
Roboats Roaming Amsterdam Waters
A research institute in Amsterdam, AMS for Advanced Metropolitan Solutions, has recently started a program with the goal of developing autonomous boats for the city's canals.
Print, Build, and Customize Urban Furniture With WikiBlock
WikiBlock allows community members to take placemaking into their own hands, by printing and building their own urban street furniture and street elements.
Gardening As An Alternative To Juvenile Detention
Through the Queens Youth Justice Center, the Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson Community Garden offers an alternative-to-detention program for troubled youths in Queens, New York.
A City On A City: The Rooftop Movement
Cities are making use of their rooftops more than ever before. ROEF Amsterdam is a festival that hopes to be part of a movement celebrating this phenomenon, starting with 8 rooftops across Amsterdam.
An Age Of Convenience
Convenience stores in Japan are stepping up to address the needs of an ageing population
Modern Signboards For Taipei’s Traditional Markets
The Small Shop Signboard Manufacturer, organized in collaboration with Taipei-based culture promotion brand Archicake, is working to create store front signs by connecting family run businesses with designers.
Ecuador’s Disassembling Shipping Container Home
Architects Daniel Moreno Flores and Sebastian Calero have worked together to create this industrial-chic home by re-purposing seven shipping containers. What is most intriguing is that the entire home can be completely disassembled; allowing for each module to be transported to a new location.
Scandinavia Dreaming: Nordic Homes, Interiors And Design
The new book Scandinavia Dreaming: Nordic Homes, Interiors and Designs showcases the unique interiors, architecture, and products of Nordic spaces; providing insight into this region’s creative scene.
Strange Dinners With Seven Strangers
Stranger Danger is a pop-up initiative from Perth that brings together eight strangers with no mutual friends on Facebook for a social dinner.
Free E-Books In The New York Subway
New York City's Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) has teamed up with publishing company Penguin to offer free e-books to subway commuters.
Trailer Park Hotel Pops Up On A Melbourne Rooftop
Notel claims not to be a hotel — it's "an experience that is 50% about the bed and the other 50% is about Melbourne", says James Fry, creator of the concept that places 6 re-fitted 1930s designed Airstream trailers onto a carpark rooftop.
Hands-Free Cycling Navigation Through Blubel
Blubel is trying to make cycling more accessible through the development of a smart bicycle bell that knows its way around your city.
Taking A Trolley Bus To Vanishing Point
Street artist Liudas Parulskis transformed one of the iconic trolley buses that remain a fixture of the city's urban fabric into a piece of urban art that literally vanishes into the landscape.
Rural Japanese Houses Transformed Into Satellite Offices For Tech Start-Ups
In Japan, architects have started to renovate rural homes into satellite offices for tech start-ups. Can start-ups save the country-side?
