Urban art
An overview of projects, products and exclusive articles about urban art
Project • By CRAFT Design • Restaurants
MOOO!
MOOO is for the in-betweens—bold, playful, and a little bit lost.With cheeky murals, vibrant red lighting, and a lush open-air terrace, MOOO is a multi-sensory playground. It blends street-style irreverence with the cultural hybridity of Hong Kong’s third-culture kids—those raised between East and West, belonging everywhere and nowhere. From bold signage to retro textures and curated art, it’ s a space that teases with humour, heart, and the heat of identity in flux.
Andy Chester
Andy Chester
What we loved:Creating a space that feels like a love letter to Hong Kong’s in-betweens—those raised in the city’s wild mashup of neon chaos, diaspora stories, and delicious contradictions. Fro... More
Project • By SpY Studio • Exhibitions
EARTH / TIERRA
A luminous red sphere caged inside a structure
In “Tierra”, SpY presents an artistic project made up of a luminous red sphere caged inside a cube-shaped structure, constructed with the type of scaffolding normally used on building sites.
These 2 simple geometric elements (sphere and cube) form a large-scale construction which stands almost 25 metres high and has been installed in Plaza de Colón in Madrid.
Ruben PBescos
This powerful visual statement is accompanied by a bright red light emanating from inside the sphere, from which one can almost feel the heat transmitted by the concept of the work.
In this work, SpY asks us to reflect on the way in which our home makes up a whole of which we form part, and in whic... More
Project • By Mathews + Associates Architects • Sculptures
Poetic Stand
In 2018, the Stellenbosch Outdoor Sculpture Trust commissioned Pieter Mathews, of Mathews + Associates Architects, to design a bicycle stand.
This piece of urban furniture was originally designed to stand in front of the historic Skuinshuis in Stellenbosch.
The concept of the bicycle stand was to celebrate the centenary of the Department of Afrikaans/Nederland of the University of Stellenbosch.Afrikaans poetry is represented by three renowned South African poets who graduated from the University of Stellenbosch. These poets are Lina Spies, DJ Opperman and Adam Small (D Liit Hon Causa).An abstracted profile of each poet is arranged around a central axis, creating spaces for bicycles to be suspended from.
The poetic stand serves to activat... More
Project • By DP Architects • Exhibitions
Archifest 2016 Pavilion
DP Architects is proud to present the winning design of the official Archifest 2016 Pavilion in Singapore.Drawing inspiration from the festival’s theme of ‘Exhale’, the design aims to re-examine the often breathless pace of life associated with a dense city. DP Architects’ gigantic, technicolour inhabitable urban sculpture plays on the interaction of primary colours which overlap to produce a vibrant spectrum of secondary and tertiary colours that induce visitors to forget about the stressful city life and ‘Exhale’.Composed entirely of construction site materials, the design seeks to playfully refresh the city by injecting vibrant swathes of colour in a public space by way of a psychedelic pavilion. The pavilion’s character is built on nuan... More