This Laundromat Looks Like A Nightclub
In Barcelona, Spain a new eco-friendly laundromat opened last summer. Nothing new you would say, except for the fact that this laundromat looks like a nightclub.
QRadio: A Music Sharing Platform In Public Space
Finding hidden treasures in the most random places around the city is one of my favourite urban tasks! Repudo is a smartphone app that allows you to leave or pick up 'treasures' such as text messages, pictures, videos and generally any digital object around the city. Berlin-based street artist Sweza took this concept a bit further with his street intervention project called QRadio.
Hand-Woven Fiber Walls Make Interiors Flexible
Dutch designer Wies Preijde has created a great series of hand-woven walls that work as flexible dividing structures for apartments.
Google Street Scene: Moments From Cinema Captured By Street View Cameras
It seems that the World Wide Web and the potential generated when you mix one concept and Internet tool with another are really inexhaustible. Though it's only been a week since map enthusiast Tre Baker launched his new Tumblr (check out the other one here), things have gone wild in the blogosphere. Google Street Scene is the perfect combination of Google Street View aesthetics, cinephile interests and challenging quizzes.
Wikify Your City With Wikipedia’s Nearby App
Pop-Up City is always interested in mobile apps that create new experiences of the city. So when Wikipedia, the most popular source for all things information announced its spatial-debut, we paid attention. Wikipedia recently introduced its GeoData extension. This streamlined, centralized source for geographic information means that 'mapping Wikipedia' is about to explode.
2,100 Plastic Bottles Make A Great Intervention
Earlier this week we presented you a this light installation in a neglected street in Athens. Today we will mentally take you to a journey to one of my favorite cities — the city of Chania, on the Greek island of Creta.
Modular Accordion House On Three Wheels
Many Chinese people can not afford to buy land to build a house in the huge, expensive and over-populated cities. Design studio People's Architecture Office (PAO) came up with a solution — a mobile accordion house that can be taken everywhere by means of a bike.
Create GB Volume 1: Celebrating Great British Creativity
Last year we met We Heart’s James Davidson in Helsinki during the city’s fantastic series of World Design Capital events. A few weeks ago he sent us his recently published book Create GB Volume 1: Celebrating Great British Creativity. Looking back on the celebration of UK culture during London’s 2012 Olympic games, the book highlights the best of British creativity, exploring the country’s cutting edge design, and the significance of being in the UK to the creative process.
Camouflaging The Urban Ugliness
Today, it was Dutch designer Roeland Otten that made our day! Starting in 2009 in Rotterdam, until his most recent intervention in Amsterdam, the designer has been 'dressing' the walls of concrete, inelegant urban infrastructures (such as an electricity station or an air-quality measuring station) with photographs. Either in the form of sleek, big, high resolution photographs which create an optical illusion of invisibility and transparency or in that of small colored tiles that form a pixelated resemblance of the urban environment behind them the designer manages to conceal some ugly parts of the city.
Boston’s City Hall On Wheels
Food trucks have become really popular in many cities around the world. Now also other organizations start to see the potential of offering their services in a flexible way. Inspired by the food trucks, Boston launched its City Hall To Go — a truck that travels the city's neighborhoods to get in touch with local communities. Doing so, the flexible city hall aims to bring civil services to the people. As the Boston area measures almost 50 square miles, traveling all the way downtown to City Hall can be a big hassle for residents. Making the City Hall mobile solves this problem.
Bright Intervention Spices Up Shady Street In Athens
Walking through the dark alleys of Psirri, a part of the Athens’ city centre that has a strong identity and contradictive reputation, you will discover Pittaki street. Creative studio Beforelight and the non-profit organization Imagine The City decided to bring light back to that forgotten street by creating a light installation from 150 citizen's donations of old lamp fixtures and lamp shades.
Build Your Own Pop-Up Seed Swapping Station
Hawaii-based Eating in Public’s Seed-Sharing stations are unmonitored installations that have started to pop up all over the USA and Canada. They offer an easily accessible space for urban gardeners to exchange seeds and important information about how to best grow their fruits and veggies.
New Swedish Concept Hotel Offers Homeless Experience
A very special hotel has opened doors in Gothenburg, Sweden. Faktum Hotels has no rooms, but offers places to sleep that the city's homeless might also use.
Derelict Gas Station Transforms Into A Dreamy Public Space
Re-use and transformation of former private buildings into places open to the public is something that always attracts our interest. This time we’re showcasing an example of such a transformation project around the corner of our HQ in North Amsterdam that opens today!
Tracking Street Food With An App
I believe that it takes some personal interest on a subject to develop a smartphone application for that. I guess that’s what happened to Eric Lo, a young media designer from San Francisco, who likes to eat street tacos and was frustrated by not being able to track one easily, due to their pop-up nature. Lo developed FoodCarts, a prototype iOS application that allows its user to find a food cart in and around San Francisco in real-time.
