Urbhang is an urban intervention aiming to activate a public space and transform it into a lively experience, by creating an outdoor public living room where people are invited to sit, read, rest, play, work, meet and interact. Urbhang is a series of hanging urban installations for hanging out.

Urban plugins is a series of flexible urban furniture, modular extensions that can be plugged to existing planters and light poles forming different configurations.

Utomhusverket 2021 by Studio Ossidiana for ArkDes; a conference centre for the birds, 'al masha', and the beauty, dignity and utility of shared things in everyday life

the public furniture attachments by thor ter kulve demonstrate how temporary interventions can transform existing typologies of well-recognizable objects.

Tactical Urbanism: Short-term Action for Long-term Change, a new book by urban planners Mike Lydon and Anthony Garcia is the first book to really organize all the small fixes that seem to have spontaneously sprung up in so many communities in a way that everyone can understand. These fixes -- some temporary and others long-term…

Image 6 of 19 from gallery of Viewing Tower Hoge Bergse Bos / Ateliereen Architecten. Photograph by Ateliereen Architecten

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Roeland Otten camouflaged substations and small buildings in the Netherlands with mosaic tiles, paint and photographic prints.

The Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona (CCCB) has announced the finalists for the 2016 European Prize for Urban Public Space....

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In the quarter Lombok in the city of Utrecht, The Netherlands the first Pop-Up was...

Interventions in public space, using found objects that are reconfigured to enrich the urban experience through play.

located in wrocław, the studio has added to some abandoned concrete stairs simple half-chairs, half-sunbeds that invite people to sit down, sunbathe, and enjoy the view.

Cliostraat_Founded in 1991 in Turin, Italy to explore the in-between spaces of cities. For Play or Rewind, Cliostraat redrew the lines of three playing fields-for soccer, volleyball, and bowling-laying them over three public squares in the historic town of Siena, Italy. The lines to not correspond with the plans of the squares, but rather extend diagonally…

This article was originally published by Autodesk's Redshift publication as "Reincarnated Architecture: Through Green Alleys, Dead Space Can Live...

According to a study, Americans spend more time together in public spaces than they did 30 years ago. Therefore, it becomes increasingly important to make the objects filling our streets more convenient and original. Unusual benches, smart street lights, fun trash cans and much more can inevitably influence our mood and attitude.

What if your local telephone booth was also an electric vehicle charging station? Or construction scaffolding became a fun place to sit down and eat lunch? Or a roadside billboard became a lush, air-cleaning bamboo garden? All of these examples are part of a new exhibition launched this week by the Boston Society of Architects called Reprogramming the […]