Urban Coffee Farm in Melbourne
15-3-2013
The Australian design firm HASSELL designed the ‘Urban Coffee Farm and Brew Bar’ for the Melbourne Food and Wine Festival. A total of 125 coffee trees have transformed the ‘Red Stairs’ (a popular public Amphitheatre in Melbourne) into a terraced coffee farm. Shipping containers, packaging crates and timber pallets have also been added to demonstrate the journey that coffee beans take. This will creates a unique experience while visitors sit among the trees sipping their coffee. More pictures at PSFK.
Floating vending machine
15-3-2013
Enjoying the sun, swimming in the sea and in between drinking an Ice Tea.. That’s possible in Cape Town. At one of the trendiest beaches of Cape Town, Lipton Ice Tea has introduced the first driving vending machine in the world.
Luxurious container rooms in Antwerp
7-2-2013
‘Sleeping Around’ rebuilds old Chinese containers into mobile hotelrooms. Four of these rooms are located at the Port of Antwerp, as a breakfast/ lounge container and a sauna container.
Luxury eco hotel at Antarctica
16-1-2013
At Whichaway Eco Camp explorers get the chance to experience the Antarctic comfortably, and sustainable. Guests can stay the overnight in one of six tents. The tents look like oversized golf balls. The frameless structures are made of aerospace composite panels that slot together to have the strength of a normal building and the mobility of a tent. Each tent has an en-suite bathroom and a desk. The camp consists of two more tents where you’ll find the dining area, library, kitchen and communications area. See more pictures in the Daily Mail article and a video about a trip to Whichaway Eco Camp.
Montblanc pop-up lobby store
15-1-2013
Montblanc stationary is partnering with the St. Regis Washington DC Hotel and Thornwillow Press on a pop-up hotel lobby store for Barack Obama’s upcoming inauguration. Fans of the Montblanc brand assembling in Washington DC for the upcoming inauguration will be able to purchase leather goods, cuff links, timepieces and signature writing instruments in a new pop-up location. Obama fans can also purchase the official medallion set for $7,500. Those on a tighter budget can get an official inauguration souvenir pen for $30. In an added interactive element, visitors to the pop-up store will be encouraged to use Montblanc stationery and pens to write letters to the president that will then be hand-delivered to the White House by the St. Regis Hotel’s team of butlers. We never heard from a pop-up store in a hotel lobby, inspiration for other hotels and shops.
Stolichnaya portraits entrepreneurs
29-11-2012
Last weekend the most original hospitality entrepreneurs in The Hague were portrayed through a very special technique. Vodka brand Stolichnaya found the entrepreneurs behind. During the two-day exposition not the portraits only were revealed, but also the process of ‘vertical penplotter’ technique. The portraits can be admire at the locations. ‘The most orginal bar , deserve the most original vodka.’
Pop-up Restaurant ONKRUID
2-11-2012
On December 15th, one-off pop-up Restaurant ONKRUID (in English: Weed) will open its doors for vegetarian foodies, somewhere in Amsterdam. The exact location is still a secret. A complete vegetable four course dinner will be served, prepared by caterer DopHert.
The Food Line-up guerrilla campaign Amsterdam
15-10-2012
The Dam square in Amsterdam is the centre of a guerrilla campaign by foodtrucks on the World Food Day October 16th. From 12.30 to 13.30 o’clock the trucks serve a free lunch to get attention for the lack of food diversity on the streets of the capital. Most of the mobile food stands sell hotdogs or ‘oliebollen’ (deep-fried dough). The Food Line-Up and its initiator Lotte Wouters want to motivate the government to take the New York policy for food trucks as an example. The streets in New York provide a huge diversity of food trucks that are used by all social classes and backgrounds.
Now or never creation BAUT in Amsterdam
5-10-2012
Pop-up restaurant bar BAUT opens in the Wibautstraat on Friday the 12th of October. The kitchen of this 900 square meter restaurant is managed by chef Michiel van der Eerde. The doors close on the 31st of December 2014 because of urban renewal plans in the area. This restaurant is the first by the ‘Nu of Nooit’ (Now or never) company. The start-up by Job Keja, Michiel van der Eerde and Dick Leijen is focused on temporary and durable entrepreneurship in empty buildings.
Blown Away classical and electronic music @ warehouse 010
3-10-2012
On Saturday the 13th of October the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, techno producer Secret Cinema and Ted Langenbach join forces during the Advanced Music Fest Blown Away. At about 100 musicians and another 100 performers will combine classical and electonic music in the Rotterdam harbor area during an explosive creative and visually attractive evening.
