Playground In The Sky: Roof Garden Arnhem
Roof Garden Arnhem is an all-in-one location for a guaranteed fun time: it's a park, garden, hang-out place, bar, silent disco location and showroom for Arnhem's many creative and cultural initiatives.
Remote-Controlled Pop-Up Shop Takes On The Streets Of Tokyo
Tokyo-based designer Duncan Shotton has created the world's smallest pop-up shop. In Japan's most densely populated city, the British designer has come up with a novel solution to the metropolis's limited space in its busy retail streets.
Urban Hacktivist Creates Tram Track Skateboard
With minimal effort, artist Tomáš Moravec managed to turn a standard wooden pallet into a tram track skateboard.
A Tiny House Village In A Parking Garage
In an attempt to explore concepts for urban micro-living, students of the Savannah College of Art & Design's Atlanta branch have built a temporary tiny house village inside the parking garage of their campus's main building.
IABR Lesson #48: How To Create Your Own Cyber Garden
Gardening in the 21st century is not about a shovel and a rake any more. Today we talk cyber-gardening, that's all about applying the latest technologies to produce our food. London-based design office EcoLogicStudio has developed a new agro-urban prototype for algae cultivation — a digital design project that combines urbanism, food manufacturing and ecology.
Sorry, Your Phone Is Blocked In This Coffee Bar
Artist Julien F. Thomas and architecture office HCMA have designed a coffee bar in Vancouver that disconnects you from all wireless networks once you're inside.
Wanted: Pop-Up Photo Reporters!
We're looking for three readers in the Netherlands who want to make a photo report for Pop-Up City! We'll give you a brand-new Samsung Galaxy Tab S in return.
Transformable Street Furniture For The Homeless
Non-profit organization RainCity Housing has launched multi-functional street furniture that can be used as seating during the day and sleeping places for the homeless during the night.
New App Lets People Share Their Boat
The newly launched peer-to-peer app We Are on a Boat matches people who would like to be on a boat with people who are willing to share their boat.
Billboard Houses For The Homeless
Slovakian architecture agency Design Develop has launched a plan to turn roadside billboards into houses for the homeless.
Which Architect Is Winning The 3D Printing Rat Race?
Architects and builders all over the world seem to be participating in a fictional rat race to build the very first 3D-printed house. In the past five years we've seen quite some drawings and models of 3D-printed architecture, but only few architects have the printers running until now. In this article we'll compare five of the most prominent 3D-printing initiatives in the world to find out what 3D-printed architecture has in store for the coming years.
Don’t Touch The Ground In Hong Kong!
In the Netherlands many kids play a game called 'voetje van de vloer', which is about keeping your feet off the ground as long as possible. The Cities Collective makes this game come to life on a city-wide level by presenting a series of three-dimensional maps of Hong Kong which you can use when you would like to experience the city without 'touching the ground'...
Clean Me A River
Tired of the numerous throw-it-away-immediately handouts you get and the many annoying commercials on your phone or television? Beauty brand Shokubutsu HANA introduces a more interesting way of advertising: a purifying water billboard floating on a river. This billboard, made out of grass, actually cleans the polluted water of the river, conveying the message "Clean River Soon".
We’re Proud to Present Pop-Up City Book
After months of hard work, we are proud to present Pop-Up City: City-Making in a Fluid World. On Thursday 3 July at 18:00 we will celebrate the launch of the book at Felix &Foam in Amsterdam, and you are invited!
Drones Of The World, Unite!
There are so many drones out there already that they are collecting footage of a big part of the world. Bringing together as many drone-made videos as possible, Travel by Drone aims to create the world's first crowd-sourced aerial video map.
