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NewsTiniest House in the World to be Auctioned on eBay
Jay Shafer's Tumbleweed XS House, now available through online auction, squeezes full domestic functionality into an incredible 6 square metres.
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NewsIKEA Launches Fully Furnished Prefab Homes
IKEA and Ideabox, a U.S. architectural firm, have teamed up to create a line of fully furnished, prefabricated houses.
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NewsIconic Brand Logos Reworked by Hipsters
Ever wondered what the world would look like if it was run by hipsters?
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NewsPee-Powered Restaurant Pops Up in Melbourne
Joost Bakker introduces Greenhouse, his 100% recyclable restaurant to Melbourne's Food and Wine Festival.
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NewsAn American City Hoping to Change its Fortunes with a Font
In an effort to create a new visual brand for Chattanooga, Tennessee, the city considers adopting a custom typeface font for city media and signage.
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NewsRobots Provide Sweet Rewards for Social Media Popularity
When you receive a mention or a retweet, Olly and Molly will release a treat or a scent, respectively.
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NewsTen Films and TV Shows You Need to Stream This Month
Spend your couch time watching the delicious return of 'The Bear', Glen Powell playing a fake hitman and Lily Gladstone's latest excellent performance.
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NewsTen Films and TV Shows You Need to Stream in May
Spend your couch time watching a documentary about Jim Henson and an Elisabeth Moss-led spy thriller.
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GuideMust-Stream TV: All the Best Shows You Should Be Watching From 2024 So Far
Don't spend hours scrolling through streaming platforms — here's 2024's standout shows that you need to see.
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NewsEleven Films and TV Shows You Need to Stream in April
Spend your couch time watching Andrew Scott step into Tom Ripley's shoes, a shattering docuseries about Nickelodeon's kids TV hits and Colin Farrell as a PI.
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NewsEleven Films and TV Shows You Need to Stream in March
Spend your couch time watching Adam Sandler in space, a stunning Oscar-winning documentary, girl group-fuelled sitcom hilarity and Noel Fielding's latest show.
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NewsHop to It: 16 Classic and Eclectic Films You Can Stream This Easter Long Weekend
Some feature bunnies. Some include eggs or chocolate. Some have provocative takes on religion.
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NewsNine 2024 Oscar-Winning Films That You Can and Should Watch Immediately
'Oppenheimer', an astonishing Ukraine-set documentary, a Wes Anderson short, Emma Stone's most-spectacular performance yet: they each won 2024 Oscars, and you can check them them all now.
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NewsSay Cheers to Hollywood's Night of Nights: Concrete Playground's Oscars 2024 Drinking Game
Whether you're hoping that 'Oppenheimer', 'Barbie', 'Poor Things', 'Past Lives' or something else picks up Academy Awards, here's how to sip along.
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NewsPredicting the Oscars: Who Should, Could and Will Win at the 2024 Academy Awards
Will 'Oppenheimer' sweep the Oscars? What else will win? What should but won't? Here are our predictions.
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NewsHere's Where You Can Watch 32 of 2024's Oscar-Nominated Movies in New Zealand Right Now
From 'Barbenheimer' and twists on 'Frankenstein' to animated 'Spider-Man' antics and devastating documentaries, here's where to watch 2024's Oscar contenders.
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NewsUnfold Your Own Personal Island
A folding, portable recreational island, designed by Henry Ward, is being brought to life by British naval architects.
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NewsThe World’s 11 Most Colourful Cities
Many charming little towns throughout the world have put this idea into practice, painting their buildings in bold and bright colours.
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NewsA Bookmark Which Follows Your Reading
For the inner bookworm in all of us, French designer and inventor Oscar Lhermitte has come up with a way to make torn, dog-eared pages a thing of the past.
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NewsThe Sydney Opera House Now Comes In Lego Form
As part of their Architecture Series, Lego has released a model of the Sydney Opera House for you to build yourself.
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NewsMercedes-Benz to Integrate Apple’s Siri Technology in Vehicles
Mercedes-Benz drivers will soon be able to send text messages, listen to music, change radio channels and update their status on social networks.
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NewsNew Volvo Designed With Exterior Airbags For Pedestrians
In what they claim to be a world first, Swedish automobile company, Volvo, has created an external airbag on the front of the car to protect pedestrians if there were to be a collision.
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RestaurantThis That
57 Lorne St , Auckland City
A glimmer of hope for what the rest of Lorne Street could soon become.
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BarScarlett Slimms & Lucky
476 Mt Eden Rd, Auckland
Scarlett Slimms and Lucky is a haunt for the modern day Raymond Chandler.
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BarCassette Nine
Vulcan Lane, Auckland
Any place that can pull off jeans as wallpaper has two thumbs up in my book.
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RestaurantMiss Clawdy
12 Jellicoe Street, Auckland
There is a sassy new lady in town ready to serve you some good ol' fashioned soul food. Introducing Miss Clawdy, the newest feather in Wynyard Quarter's culinary cap.
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NewsThe Aquaria Grande’s Luxury Balcony Pools
This new apartment development in Mumbai allows residents to plunge off their balcony into a luxury pool.
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NewsTen Incredible Prefab House Designs
Architects and designers around the globe are fusing creativity with the latest technology to build unique homes at a fraction of the price.
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NewsBecome The Face Of Your Furniture
Welcome to the world of egotistical ergonomics. Would you like your mug on that mug?
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NewsDomsai by Matteo Cibic
Forget the electronic beeps and constant attention needed by a Tamagotchi and buy a handcrafted Domsai instead.
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NewsMarc Newson’s Riva Aquariva
The Australian designer has unleashed what may be his most awesome creation ever - the Riva Aquariva.
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EventTwilight Tuesdays
Tue, 5 Nov, 2024
Auckland War Memorial Museum, Parnell
Wander through Auckland Museum's beautifully-lit galleries after dark.
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EventPasta and Peroni Nights at The Grounds
Sun, 3 Nov, 2024
The Grounds at Whoa! Studios, Auckland
See out the last sunny evenings of autumn with fresh pasta handmade by an ex-Baduzzi chef and ice-cold beers on tap.
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EventSmales Farmers Market
Sat, 9 Nov, 2024
Smales Farm, North Shore
Auckland's newest farmers market arrives across the harbour.
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NewsRich Neeley’s Book Chargers
In a delightfully clever combination of old and new, Rich Neeley has been taking actual vintage books and giving them new lives as iPhone chargers.
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NewsDesign Your Very Own Pumped up Kicks
Converse will offer it's fans the opportunity of designing their own pair of Converse's, and then enabling them to sell these shoes to their own friends, via their own storefront.
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NewsCufflinks That Double as USB Drives, Wi-Fi Spots
In what may be the ultimate fusion of practicality and style, Brookstone are now selling cufflinks that offer both Wi-Fi and data storage.
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News3D Printer Makes Cupcake in 60 Seconds
Most of us associate printers with ink and paper, but a new 3D printer has more to do with chocolate cupcakes and other delicious desserts.
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NewsIkea Builds Apartment in Paris Train Station
The Swedish design giants are turning more heads with their latest advertising stunt in France.
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NewsThe Song Map
This is what the world would look like if you could build a city from your iTunes library.
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NewsThe Blackbox Mobile SMS Message Printer
A nifty little mobile printer that produces your text message conversations on paper.
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NewsMake Food Not War
Stage a war in the kitchen and attempt to replicate these deliciously evil masterpieces.
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NewsTrot Around Your Own Globe
These do-it-yourself kits allow you to customise your own vintage globe with different travel routes, photos, banners and travel stickers.
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NewsCreate Your Own Personalised Soft Drink
Online users change the percentages of whatever ingredients they choose to go into the drink, and can further determine the drink's colour, name and label.
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NewsBernardo Bajana’s Offensive Police Shield
Bad news for Occupy protesters: Bernado Bajana has created a new riot shield which does much more than just shield officers.
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NewsHow Happy is Your City?
A giant emoticon erected above this Bavarian city is set to measure the general mood of the people below.
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NewsRooftop Farming in Berlin
Fish frolicking in beer barrels and a vegetable patch atop an old malt factory in Berlin enjoy the ultimate symbiotic relationship.
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NewsWake Up to the Muppet Crew
Imagine waking up, and the first thing you saw was this wall decal. There is just no way you could ever start the day in a bad mood.
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NewsA Beer Cooler that Doubles as a ‘Photoblocker’
A product that will soon solve the first-world problems faced by many party animals.
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NewsVending Machine for Welcome Home Signs
Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport Bannerxpress allows people to print welcome home signs from a vending machine at the airport.
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NewsThe World’s Funkiest Contact Lenses
The Japanese have a particular skill when it comes to making useful objects much more compact and convenient.
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NewsSydney: The Summer Guide
Welcome to the inaugural Concrete Playground Summer Guide, a comprehensive shortlist of the best this city has to offer over the next three months
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NewsThe World’s First Functional Painting Typewriter
To the delight of fetishists of redundant technology, an American artist has created a typewriter that paints.
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NewsFrom Barley to the Bottle in the Heart of the City
Watch your beer 'grow' from start to finish at this temporary inner city brewery.
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NewsThe Little Printer
Little Printer partners with Arup, foursquare, Google, the Guardian and Nike to produce itty bitty newspapers to slip into your back pocket and read on the go.
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NewsBasil Bangs’ Beautiful Beach Brollies
Basil Bangs' beautifully designed beach umbrellas will allow you to spend a sensible day at the beach while still looking hip.
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NewsAdidas to Launch $1 Sneaker in India
Adidas is looking to the subcontinent for its new major growth market.
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NewsIt’s Just a Plant: The Children’s Book on Marijuana
The story of a young girl's educational journey as she comes to understand cannabis, explained to her by her parents, a doctor and a kind gang of Rastafarians.
