Make A Mash-Up Mix Of Your Street With StreetMix
By Daniel Rotsztain
StreetMix.net is a digital mixing board for the urban environment. It invites its users to create, mix and mash a streetscape with a wide array of typical road elements, such as bike and vehicle lanes, medians, boulevards, sidewalks and trees.
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Jules Basement: A Bar You’ll Probably Never See The Inside Of
By Bob Wiebes
During the early twenties and thirties, the ‘speakeasy’ started to pop-up throughout the United States, illegaly selling alcoholic beverages as a result of the Prohibition. Although alcohol is now very much legal, the speakeasy concept happens not to be dead just yet with the opening of Jules Basement, a new exclusive bar in Mexico City.
Read more →Help Us Build The City Of The Future!
By Daniel Rotsztain
We are excited to announce that The Pop-Up City will be collaborating with The Hague’s Museon this summer on #stadvandetoekomst (#cityofthefuture, in Dutch), an exhibit that will take The Pop-Up City into an exciting and interactive experience. But before that, and with a cue from trends in urbanism, we are taking the exhibit “to the streets”, and will be hosting a series of six workshops to investigate (and crowdsource) what the city of the future will look like, and how it will work. We need your input!
Read more →Bitponics: Where Urban Agriculture Meets The Internet Of Things
By Bob Wiebes
Brooklyn start-up Bitponics makes urban farming a bit more convenient with its smart device and website that helps you manage your greens from a remote location.
Read more →Food-For-Food Intervention Encourages Shoppers To Rediscover Their Local Market
By Daniel Cooper
During the summer of 2011, Hackney-based multidisciplinary collective The Decorators (in collaboration with Atelier ChanChan) transformed a vacant plot within the market into a temporary restaurant named ‘Ridley’s’. Suzanne O’Connell, one quarter of The Decorators, was kind enough to answer a few questions on this unique program.
Read more →Studio Weave Turns London Hospital Into A Musical Box
By Vivian Doumpa
Yes, they did it again! Studio Weave, the British architecture agency that was also featured in our review of Create GB, managed to amaze us again with another amazing intervention, called the Lullaby Factory.
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Hong Kong As A 2D Game
By Ted Pouls
Remember playing Super Mario Bros on the first Nintendo? Stockholm-based photographer Christian Åslund shot a series of photos in Hong Kong depicting the city as a 2D game.
Read more →Labrador Becomes Architecture Critic
By Joop de Boer
An 8.5 meter tall sculpture of a black labrador pissing on the facade of the Orange County Museum of Art in Newport Beach is Richard Jackson’s latest artwork. The artist’s thought-provoking installation ‘Bad Dog’ was installed for the occasion of the retrospective exhibit ‘Richard Jackson: Ain’t Painting a Pain’.
Read more →Virgin Launches World’s First Airplane Art Gallery
By Vivian Doumpa
Virgin Atlantic has recently announced to open art galleries on airplanes. Teaming up with British street artist Eine (Ben Flynn), the ‘Gallery in the Air’ collaboration aims to bring art at 35,000 feet. The passengers of the first class (Upper Class) will have the chance to experience a pop-up gallery atmosphere while traveling between New York and London. Except for the in-plane exhibition, there will also be a series of the artists’ typography artworks presented in the lounge rooms, the exclusive ‘Clubhouses’, of London Heathrow, JFK and Newark Clubhouses airports.
Read more →Make Your Tools Accessible To Those Who Need Them At The Tool Library
By Daniel Rotsztain
Here’s another solution for putting those tools gathering dust in your house to use: make them available for lending at your local Tool Library! Opening next month, Toronto’s Tool Library is one of many similar projects that have popped up all over North America, Australia and Europe. The recent popularity of tool libraries is another example of how the peer-to-peer economy continues to gain popularity and evolve, changing the way we interact with each other and our cities.
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