Library Pay Phone Booth in New York City by John Locke
I absolutely love this project! The need for pay phones continues to diminish. New York-based architect John Locke had an idea that would help make your standard pay phone booth a bit more practical...
View ArticlePlayful Sculptures by Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen
Funny and playful sculptures by Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen - ordinary objects depicted in monumental scale. The artistic team of Coosje van Bruggen and Claes Oldenburg has to date executed...
View ArticleOutliers – Animal Tracks by Maskull Lasserre
Animal tracks are reproduced onto the soles of shoes that are worn to leave prints in urban areas, presented here at Articule, Montreal, QC. This project is called Outliers and is created by the...
View ArticleUrban Origami Installations in Hong Kong and Vietnam by Mademoiselle Maurice
This summer French paper artist Mademoiselle Maurice took her unique style of urban origami installation to the streets of Hong Kong and Vietnam. The hexagonal piece shown above were created in Paris...
View ArticleStreet Pong
Urban street interactions! I absolutely love it. This pong game is created by HAWK Hildesheim. Thanks to my colleague Kasper for showing me this!
View ArticleLisbon’s urban art gallery – full of street art
Lisbon’s City Hall knows that a rich and cultural city embraces street art as one of its components. Lisbon has one of the major street art collections in the world, alongside a rich and historical...
View Article21 Musical Light Swings on the Streets of Montreal
When I first saw the photos from this lovely installation in Montreal I smiled. I absolutely love, when a city allows artists to put up installations that makes the citizens use the their city. But...
View ArticleStreet Art by Sao Paulo-based SÃO and Delafuente
The 6emeia project, as all these pieces are a part of, is created and developed by the artists Anderson Augusto, also known as SÃO, and Leonardo Delafuente, also known as Delafuente. The duo live in...
View Article2012 ArchTriumph Inflatable Trampoline Design
My God, I wanna try! This year’s 2012 ArchTriumph design contest had some innovative entries. Especially this one; the Inflatable Trampoline Design from Atelier Zündel Cristea Architecture in France....
View ArticlePortable River by Luzinterruptus
‘Luzinterruptus’ is an anonymous artistic group from Madrid arranging urban interventions in public spaces. Their latest project named ‘Portable River’ took place in Caracas at the ‘In the Middle of...
View ArticleSTM: Urban recycled furniture
STM (Société de transport de Montréal) is a public transport company in Montreal, Canada, which took all kind of old urban material, such as traffic signs, old benches, … and transformed all of these...
View ArticleGorgeous Iceberg Housing in Aarhus, Denmark
Go to Aarhus in the other part of my country, and you’ll find this gorgeous housing project. In Danish it’s called Isbjerget – meaning The Iceberg. because that’s what inspired the architects. And you...
View ArticleUrban Interventions by R1
These cool urban interventions are created by street artist R1, who is based in Johannesburg, South Africa. R1 often works with found materials, transforming them and giving them back to the city as...
View ArticleVaulot & Dyévre create ‘Insectopia’ modern shelter for bugs
There’s no avoiding insects wherever you may be in the world, and while bird houses, feeders and the like are in no shortage – it had designers Vaulot & Dyevre asking, what about the bugs? In an...
View ArticleCidade das Artes by Christian de Portzamparc
Christian de Portzamparc is an architect and urban planner – born in Casablanca in 1944. And he is the architect behind this stunning piece called Cidade das Artes – City of Arts – situated in a new...
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