Sleeping Around: Pop-Up Hotel in a Shipping Container
Do you want to spend a night on a river bank, a cliff, a meadow or a busy urban street? The 'Sleeping Around' pop-up hotel concept can go virtually anywhere you like, setting up quickly in ...
Tag: Temporary Architecture
Temporary Urban Coffee Farm Grows & Sells Bean Brew
Coffee lovers are getting a special treat at this year's Melbourne Food and Wine Festival: an urban coffee farm installation made primarily of pallets, which functions as both a temporary coffee ...
Transportable Tourist Towers Provide Stackable Housing
Prefabricated, portable and modular, the Transportable Tourist Tower (TTT) by Portuguese architect Jose Pequeno is an adaptable housing solution that can be installed on almost any site, ...
Design Miami Tent Covered with Inflatable Sausages
Bundles of giant white inflatable sausages make a big visual impact on the exterior walls of the Design Miami tent at Art Basel. New York studio Skarnitecture covered the structure in vinyl tubes ...
Bridging Home: House Wedged in an Alleyway by Do Ho Suh
Passing by this Liverpool alleyway and noting the bizarre sight of a small structure wedged between two buildings, you might wonder whether it was dropped from the sky, or perhaps pushed off the ...
Bubbletecture: Poppable Building Made of Soap Bubbles
Is this the most temporary architecture of all time? Fragile and tenuous but undeniably beautiful, these bubble buildings rise for just moments at a time before they pop. To create the ...
Floating Cinema Deserves a Standing (or Swaying) Ovation
When the scenery is this beautiful, who could blame you for letting your attention wander away from the movie screen? Beijing-based architect Ole Scheeren constructed a temporary floating cinema ...
Container Urbanism: Reclaimed Pop-Up Structures
When urban populations outgrow the pace of new construction, and suitable homes and offices spaces are difficult to find, what are property hunters to do? Perhaps more of them will start coming ...
Secret City: Illegal Architectural Interventions in Tawian
Beyond the 'official city' of Taipei, where modernization and beautification efforts are glossing over the city's natural and historical origins, there is Instant City. Using Taipei's ...
Red Bull Music Academy: Vibrant, Lush Temporary Space
Occupying an empty warehouse in Madrid, the Red Bull Music Academy is a temporary space for a nomadic music academy organized by the energy drink brand. With bright colors, bold patterns, high ...
