Solar-powered POP-UP Park takes over underused Budapest square
Hungarian design studio Hello Wood has teamed up with the Municipality of Budapest City yet again to revive a forgotten...
Whimsical park built of recycled materials pops up in Shanghai
Shanghai’s hip Anfu Road recently sprouted a whimsical urban intervention that shows how one man’s trash create...
Artist transforms cement truck into a gigantic disco ball
French artist Benedetto Bufalino has transformed a very large cement mixer into one very shiny rotating disco ball....
Basurama transforms landfill trash into playgrounds in Taipei
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFs4FqOuI58 Founded in 2001, the Basurama artist collective has worked around...
Simple but smart design transforms a concrete plaza into a lively urban park
“The project springs from the need to create a welcoming place for the citizens of Favara while simultaneously...
Mini Gabion Parklet pops up in a Brazilian neighborhood
Parklets are hands down one of our most favorite types of urban interventions, and they’ve started to catch on...
Guerrilla art in Jerusalem breathes new and colorful life into street benches
The director of the Baka community commissioned Tomer-Schlesinger’s colorful interventions for an upcoming arts...
Repurposed traffic barrels reactivate a forgotten public space in El Paso
Architects Ersela Kripa and Stephen Mueller, partners at AGENCY, have teamed up with a group of Texas Tech University...
Portable ParkedBench parklet injects a breath of fresh air in London
Supported by the Transport for London Future Streets incubator fund, ParkedBench was installed at Tooley Street...
Jerusalem’s giant red poppies bloom when you walk by
The sculptures are divided into two pairs, with one located at the entrance of the city’s market square and the...
Temporary Urban Farm pops up at Oslo’s Øya music festival
Multidisciplinary design studio Growlab Oslo created a four-day urban farm for Oslo’s Øya music festival, an...
Pop-up art gallery brings beauty back to a public square in Oslo
Set within a cobble-stoned central square, the four structures of MM1 create a miniature courtyard space between...
Clever guerrilla birdhouses provide urban nests for our feathered friends
The Nest Project’s colorful birdhouses are built for easy assembly and to withstand the elements. While citizens...
Futuristic inflatable spa engulfs visitors in mist on the River Thames
The Nine Elms Horticultural Spa & Apothecary Experience is an experimental public space created to coincide with...
ON/OFF’s BOULEvard tensegrity ball is a mobile playground in Brussels
http://vimeo.com/114451559 The ON/OFF team assembled the 4-meter-tall BOULEvard ball with high-tension rope...
Cargotecture transforms a San Francisco parking lot into a lively village
The Yard project is intended as a temporary urban intervention to provide alternative uses for a portion of a massive...
Pont9 proposes a parasitic takeover of a Paris bridge to make use of underutilized space
The concept behind Stéphane Malka's Pont9 is to co-opt existing infrastructure and better utilize the space for...
Children Help Build and Set Ablaze a Miniature City Made From Wood Waste at Valencia’s Fallas Festival
Held every March to welcome the spring season, the annual Fallas Festival is Valencia's biggest and most vibrant...
Street Artist r1 Recycles Reclaimed Wood Pallets Into Mobile Pop-Up Benches in Johannesburg
During the Absolut residency, the six artists shared an apartment in Jeppestown, Johannesburg where they exchanged...
Luke Jerram’s Massive Blue Water Slide Stops City Traffic for a Day in Bristol
A strip of blue plastic coated straw bale, surrounded by excited onlookers allowed thrill seekers to sail down...
Today is Park(ing) Day 2013 – Send Us Your Photos!
We want to see your Park(ing) Day photos! Today is Park(ing) Day and we're on the hunt for the coolest pop-up...
HOTTEA Adorns the Williamsburg Bridge with a Rainbow-Colored Canopy of Yarn
HOTTEA and a team of assistants laced the bridge with 2,000 individual strands of yarn, which took an estimated...
Recycled “Gecekondoo” Emergency Shelters Could Provide Relief to Displaced Residents of Istanbul
The Turkish Government recently voted on a ‘’disaster risk’’ law that will demolish and rebuild roughly...
Pop-up ‘Centipede Cinema’ is Made With Locally-Sourced Cork From Portugal
Led by Colin Fournier, the Centipede Cinema is an urban intervention that demonstrates how easily exciting new...
Park(ing) Day 2012: Photos of the Best Pop-Up Parks From Coast to Coast!
Park(ing) Day began in San Francisco in 2005 when Rebar Studio converted a single parking space into a pop-up park....
Bottom Up Showcases Giant Spider-Like House Made of Recycled Materials in Barcelona
A giant spider-like house made of recycled materials is just one of the many surprising projects that could emerge...
UNPACK A PARK: MOBILE GREEN SPACE
We may never tire of new ways to interject some spontaneous green space into a concrete cityscape. Kevin van Braak's...