Urban Architecture: Graffiti & Street Art's Impact

This archive dives into the fascinating intersection of architecture and urban art. We explore how graffiti and street art not only decorate buildings but actively shape architectural design and perceptions of urban spaces. From stunning murals that revitalize decaying structures to controversial tagging that sparks debate, we examine the complex relationship between these creative forces. Discover examples of innovative architectural designs inspired by street art, and delve into the social and cultural implications of this powerful artistic expression. Explore articles showcasing diverse styles, from intricate stencils to large-scale installations, and see how artists are challenging conventional notions of urban aesthetics.

Evol Stencil Art Buildings in Warsaw

After that pretty nice stencil art village near London’s Smithfield Market, Evol just created some new pieces in Warsaw! As collaboration with Monstfur, the new stencil art village is extended by an entire butterfly swarm, adding some life to the usually very material houses by Evol… Those of you who want to know, how these fabulous street artworks are created should watch this short making-of video, documenting Evol at work. All the others should go and give some love to Evol’s stuff on Flickr! ...

Graffiti Architecture in Melbourne

Graffiti Architecture in Melbourne In Melbourne, Australia, a building complex called Hive combines graffiti and architecture in an exciting new way! Whereas usually graffiti is added afterwards to the facade of a building, the facade of the Hive incorporates a giant three-dimensional concrete tag! This project by ITN Architects is real graffiti architecture! Built for an architect and artist, this building has its name written right into its walls and also comes with other graphical elements like arrows giving the entire complex an urban, sci-fi dynamic… ...

Urbanism: 72 Hour Urban Action

Great news from South-Germany: In July 2012, the world’s first real-time architecture competition 72 Hour Urban Action is coming to Stuttgart to work together with local cultural activists! All around the site of the largest urban redevelopment in Europe - Stuttgart 21 - the center of a 30 year heated public debate, 72 Hour Urban Action will be the kick-off of a series of major urban interventions in the city… ...

Urban Design & Architecture Film Festival

UR{BNE} Films is an urban design and architecture film festival, coming up in Brisbane this May and in London this June! The main intention behind this very interesting project is to showcase films that inform and inspire about urban design, architecture, public spaces and collaborative design process, where communities and city design can be the subject, the background, the actor and lead role in the wide mixture of feature films, documentary and shorts… ...

Urbanism & City Culture Trends 2012

Analyzing next trends often is an act of trying to shape the future based on past experiences. For that reason it’s like a big lottery with an intended purpose - But an interesting one! Crowd-funded Urbanism and more… Jeroen Beekmans from The Pop-Up City recently started to publish a series of ten trends for 2012 when it comes to city culture, urban design, marketing and technology. The list includes interesting ideas like Crowd-Funded Urbanism or Urbanism Made To Like and phenomenons like The Revival Of Psychogeography just to name a few. ...

Berlin-Ostkreuz Documentary

Ostkreuz station is was one the tradition-richest train stations in Berlin. With its (rusty) structural steelwork, old brick-built houses, fantastic stairs and other architectural peculiarities Ostkreuz was the mother-of-all old-school interchange stations in the Eastern part! Since winter 2007/08 it’s now under construction - the plan is to build another ugly glass palace station - for what reason it’s just superb for me to get the chance to look back and enjoy the old days by watching the nice Ostkreuz documentary by Laura Geiger and Tom Kretschmer who filmed Ostkreuz’ everyday-life between 2005 and 2007. ...

Urban Spacemag: Only Copy & Paste?

At the end of February, the second edition of the subcultural and urban Urban.Spacemag magazine was released, including info about Japanese tape artist Shuetsu Sato, Australian tape artist Buff Diss, and other articles corresponding to the magazines topic Gaffa-Urbanism. Now the third edition is in work and the crew behind the Spacemag calls for your contributions! This times topic is Copy & Paste. They are searching for statements and articles from the creative fields of architecture, urban planning and arts… ...

Amazing Dubai Time-Lapse

Two days ago, I showed these fantastic urban time-lapse videos from Paris to you. Today I will present another city in time-lapse: Dubai! Dubai - as you maybe know - is one of the seven emirates of the United Arab Emirates. The one million city is the urban crown jewel around the Persian Gulf. That fact is already shown by Philip Bloom’s Dubai time-lapse, which was filmed in Dubai over 5 days and nights. ...

City Portrait: Paris Time-Lapse

After time-lapse portraits of Tokyo & Yokohama, New York & Istanbul or London, I will show you some beautiful impressions of Paris today! Paris is one of the most romantic cities around the globe! Some days ago, I found a very nice time-lapse video collection which shows some of the most well-known places of the French capital. ...

Post-War Modernity: Architecture Photography

Daniel Sebastian Schaub is a freelance artist and photographer, who is concerned with architecture of the post-war modernity. In the last years, he photographed hundreds of different buildings mainly in Hamburg and Berlin and creates in this way a fascinating documentation of post-war architecture! The title of his work “Transformationsfelder” could be translated with “Transformation-Fields”. It tries to recognize the building’s character and focuses not only on single architectural components but on the whole building. ...