Sold Takes Second-Hand Marketplace To The Next Level
'Sold' is a recently launched application that helps users to sell, price and ship second-hand items. The app enables anyone to become a successful seller on the online second-hand marketplace without the hassle that usually comes with it — 'Sold' does all the dirty work. The only thing you have to do is upload a picture and provide necessary information. 'Sold' prices the articles, sells it and organizes packaging and shipping (!).
Architecture for Insects
The urban agriculture scene has become so big you could easily identify different sub-cultures and practices — from little community gardens to urban agriculture supply stores and large-scale urban farms, and from balcony composting to urban beekeeping and mushroom farms. So, what's next? Insect hotels!
Prague’s Public Transport Company Introduces Flirt Trains
Great and delightful news from Prague: The local transportation company Ropid has announced that it will be launching 'love trains' in the city's metro system later this year.
Little Free Libraries Pop Up On Manhattan Sidewalks
We've all seen loads and loads of parasite libraries made from wooden apple crates over the last years. The Architectural League of New York asked ten design agencies to come up with new types of these libraries Little Free Library for the occasion of the Pen World Voices Festival. The people of Stereotank created this remarkable yellow piece of street furniture.
Can Online Architecture Marketplace CoContest Save The Architect?
CoContest is a new online marketplace that connects architects and interior designers from all over the world with potential clients by enabling users to organize little design competitions. On the one hand this enables architects to get in touch with new clients, on the other hand it enables every house owner in the world to launch a contest based on their very own wishes and needs. CoContest crowdsources the overwhelming amount of global creativity and brings it to the masses.
Strut Turns Exploring The World Into A Game
Travelling is for many people deemed a chore and taking a different, longer route home is pretty much unthinkable in our modern efficiency-based lifestyle. iPhone app Strut gamifies your travel and transforms that unconvenient alternative route into an exciting and challenging adventure.
Danish Plug-In Concept Transforms Empty Office Buildings Into Hotels
The economic downturn has resulted in a real estate crisis in Midtown Manhattan. The Copenhagen-based architects of PINKCLOUD consider their Pop-Up Hotel to be a feasible concept for transforming empty office spaces into hospitality spaces.
Paris Replaces Lawnmowers With Fleet Of Urban Sheep
Paris has taken urban sustainability to the next level with the most recent addition to its team of municipal workers. Rather than investing in another fleet of gas-guzzling lawn mowers, the city has acquired four large sheep to take care of its green spaces. Known as “eco-grazing”, the sheep won’t just be mowing the city’s lawns — they’ll be fertilizing them too!
A Community-Driven Street Art App
We sure do love city-related apps. Some of them are for common and community good, some others are just for fun, others are both. Combining street art with crowd-sourcing, 1AM Mobile is such an app. This new, free community-driven photography application developed by San Francisco-based First Amendment Gallery aims to present the world's street art on one platform.
Brussels Express: Cycling In Europe’s Most Congested City
Sander Vandenbroucke’s fantastic film Brussels Express is a short documentary that explores the trials and tribulations experienced by the first bike messengers in Brussels, Europe’s most car-congested city. With colourful racing caps, stylish shoulder bags and speedy road bikes, Karl-Heinz Pohl and Karel Rowies of Pedal BXL aren’t just passionate about their innovative Brussels business: they are dedicated bicycle advocates in Brussels, a city overrun by cars and frozen in gridlock.
Urban Nomads Spread DIY Inspiration Throughout Amsterdam
Have you seen the Mobiators roaming around Amsterdam? It’s likely you’ve encountered urban nomads before, but you probably quickly shrugged them off as punks, hippies, architecture students or circus performers just doing their thing.
A Coffee Drive-In For Cyclists
In order to further improve bicycle culture and infrastructure, the urban authorities in Zürich teamed up with a team of designers to launch a true coffee drive-in for cyclists.
Don’t Toss It Away — Fix It! — At The Repair Cafe
We’ve all been there. Our coffee maker, printer, or blender brakes, and it costs way less to buy a new one then to go through all the trouble of fixing it. Responding to this incredibly wasteful phenomenon and the volume of raw materials and energy needed to produce and transport new goods, Martine Postma, an environmental activist in the Netherlands created the world’s first Repair Cafe.
Urban Foraging — Find Out What Your City Tastes Like
Spring is late in Amsterdam this year, but we can finally see some greenery around the city. Let's go outside for some urban foraging! Plants growing on the sidewalks that are either an urban wildlife or belong to someone (be it public or individual) may come out to be a great source for your daily nutrients. Fruits, vegetables, herbs, nuts or even snails are only some of the products that one can harvest and enjoy for free.
Every Home Is A Restaurant With EatWith
Everyone can turn their home into a little private restaurant with EatWith, a new web-based service that enables people to rent our their kitchen table to strangers. EatWith gives travelers the opportunity to eat with a local in their homes and experience local culinary traditions. As the founders explain, "being a guest in someone's home is a great way to get an authentic local perspective in a different city or country". And that's what every modern traveler wants, right?
