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Creativity and boldness for the Isuda bike share design competition
Singapore’s bike-sharing operator Isuda recently launched a design competition in partnership with the Bicycledesign.net website. Altogether 13 different projects of bicycles or bicycle stations were...
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What future for New York’s payphones?
In December 2012, the City of New York launched the “Reinvent Payphones Design Challenge” to imagine the future of its 11,000 public phones network. Even though the use of payphones has significantly...
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The Bicycle Fence, a smart bike rack prototype
As part of the 2013 International Forum Design awards, a group of students from the Korean University of Hyupsung imagined a bike rack prototype using sidewalk’ fences. The system is based on vertical...
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Art in the streets
Hidden street-art Pieces of street-art don’t always appear at first glance. German artistic duo Zebrating creates artworks that can only be viewed from a certain angle. They use, for their spray...
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Brands and institutions in favour of street-art
Crossing the street can be an esthetic experience too! The City of Paris is currently experimenting, in several locations, a new generation of crosswalks, some of which are inspired by street-art. This...
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A smart parking solution for cargo bikes
Cargo bikes are getting more and more popular, especially in Northern-European cities (there are 40,000 of them in the Greater Copenhagen area). But parking these vehicles has become a problematic...
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A bold design for an Austrian village’s bus shelters
Willing to develop its awareness and attract more tourists, the Eastern Austrian village of Krumbach (around 1,000 inhabitants) contacted several renowned architects in 2013 and offered them a free...
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An index in the street to find your way around
Iranian designer Mojtaba Raeisi created the prototype of a street furniture providing information about businesses and facilities located in a given street. But instead of showing the points of...
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The Bus Stop, literally
As part of the “TRANSIT – Creative Placemaking with Europe in Baltimore” initiative, launched by non-profit organization Creative Alliance and several cultural institutions, a public art installation...
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Go swing in art!
An illuminated idea came up for Lawn on D, a Boston park opened a few weeks ago. The agency running the park, MCCA, commissioned Höweler + Yoon Architecture to create illuminated swing chairs for...
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Mapping a worldwide subway system
What would happen if all the subway systems were connected to form one giant, borderless network ? The collective of designers ArtCodeData imagined this utopia by creating the World Metro Map. Based on...
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Little mobile libraries revitalize Seoul streets
After the Ticket Books campaign launched in Brasil, here is a new project to promote reading and revitalize a neighbourhood at the same time. Local design firm ArchiWorkshop launched the Mobile...
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The beauty of urban symmetry
Symmetry is a traditional architectural obsession, considered as an essential aesthetic factor since the Gothic period. Among other graphic themes, urban symmetry is naturally a popular subject on...
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The new NYC transit hub is awesome (and expensive)
After 11 years of work, the new World Trade Centre Transportation Hub finally opened, revealing a stunning dino-shaped architecture designed by Santiago Calatrava. This transit hub will connect about...
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Enhancing the place of women in cities
“This is a man’s world” claimed James Brown in his famous song. And this is still true. The 8th March was the International Women’s Day, an occasion to recall the numerous gender inequalities that...
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Nordic atmosphere in Paris
Willing to celebrate the official visit in Paris of the royal couple of Sweden and promote its sustainable development policy, IKEA teamed up with Swedish artist Aleksandra Stratimirovic and Ubi Bene...
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