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NewsFairy Doorways Draw Crowds in Michigan
Artist's magical miniature installations are taking Michigan's public art scene into another dimension.
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NewsKickstarter Project Aims to Build a Pool in New York’s East River
New Yorkers are determined to make their river (or part of it, at least) clean enough to swim in.
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NewsArtists Create NYC-Inspired Murals for DKNY
It's the 21st century sequel to the Houston Street original.
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NewsArtist Aims to Print Out the Whole Internet
Poet Kenneth Goldsmith responds to Aaron Swartz's suicide with a world first attempt at printing out the Internet.
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NewsSculptures Made From Grains of Salt
When the works have run their course, he sends them back to the sea.
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NewsAuckland Airport Introduces First of Many Cycling Initiatives
On yer bike! Check out the latest Car Bike Port design hanging out at Auckland Airport.
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GuideThe Best Things to Do Around Auckland in January
Take advantage of the quiet city and long summer days to enjoy events, exhibitions, theatre, markets and some great films.
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GuideSeven Immersive and Impressive Art Exhibitions to Visit Around New Zealand This Autumn
From immersive moving Van Gogh artworks to two-storey labyrinths of black wool, here's where you can get your art fix around the country.
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GuideSeven Exciting and Powerful Auckland Art Exhibitions to Step Into This Spring
From tumultuous and unsettling photography to immersive moving image projects, here's where you can get your art fix around the city.
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GuideTen Must-See Events at Auckland Arts Festival 2019
Auckland Arts Festival launches into its 11th year with multidimensional dance, critically acclaimed dream pop and a free sing-along waiata.
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GuideTen Shows, Installations and Parties to Get Amongst at Auckland Fringe Festival 2019
Auckland's favourite independent open-access arts festival is back for another year.
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GuideThe Ten Best Things to do This Labour Weekend
A much-adored folk songwriter, the largest screening of Russian films outside of the motherland, an annual geek-gathering, a Sunday session to rule them all, and the man responsible for 2013’s most ...
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NewsParisian Artist Transforms the Streets with Ink and Wheatpaste
Levalet explores the boundaries between reality and fiction.
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NewsLilliputt Launches Lost in Time
The new 18 hole Mini Golf course is an interactive and sensory journey through the history of New Zealand.
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NewsHow 3D Printing Can Help Your Herb Garden
The planter system can be set up in an array of configurations so you can construct your living wall to complement your living space.
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NewsBrothers Launch Travel Clothing Line with a Suitcase Pop-Up Shop
If The BFG had been written in the 21st century, Swedish fashion retailer Brothers’ vintage trunk is the suitcase he’d likely have carried.
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NewsReykjavik’s Concert Hall Wins Major EU Prize for Architecture
Reflective of both light and water, the building scatters the harbour surface with dancing, incandescent rainbows.
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NewsA Crowd Funding Proposal to Impress Jack Sparrow
Do you think your breakfast might taste better served with a piratic touch?
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NewsLife in Five Seconds Depicts History Through Design
Why use 770,000 words (the Bible’s approximate length) when you can tell the story with none at all?
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NewsConcrete Playground’s Guide to Semi-Permanent 2013
We dig deeper in to the Semi-Permanent lineup.
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NewsYour Own Pop-Up Pinhole Camera Will Beat Instagram
One English designer has brought back the old-timey charm of the pinhole camera.
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EventChristmas Lights at MOTAT 2024
Tue, 10 Dec - Mon, 23 Dec 2024
MOTAT, Western Springs
MOTAT is bringing nights of festive fun and dazzling lights back for another year.
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NewsMonocle Does Coffee Now
The magazine-gone-global brand synonymous with cool is now serving designer lattes to savvy Londoners.
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NewsThe Ten Best Swings Ever
Things have come a long way since your ma or pa tied a threadbare rope to a used tyre.
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NewsA New Wave of Music Inspired Art + Win Beck’s Beer
Beck's Beer collaborates with indie-pop band Ghost Wave on their latest campaign.
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NewsNike Introduce a Natural Motion Shoe
The natural movement of the foot is hindered by our reliance of footwear, especially in the presence of some ill fitted sport shoes.
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NewsTen Ingenious Ways to Fill a Terrarium
The terrarium has come back with a vengeance, a sophistication and a sense of humour.
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NewsSpace Odyssey: Ten Futuristic Hotels Around the World
When only futuristic chic will do, check out these ten space-age stays around the world.
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NewsEnergy-Harnessing Soccer Ball Brings Power to Those Who Play with It
The most fitting product to ever feature on Kickstarter?
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NewsSeven Intricate Structures You Won’t Believe Were Made Out of Paper
Check out seven of the most intricate and incredible structures ever made out of paper
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NewsTen Amazing and Unorthodox Swimming Pools
This collection of gravity-defying, awe-inspiring and simply remarkable swimming pools will completely transform...
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NewsThe Billboard That Turns Humid Air Into Water
The Peruvians stretch one streetside billboard beyond mere advertising purposes.
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NewsWrite on Air with the World’s First 3D Pen
Imagine simply waving a pen around in the air and creating real-life 3D objects while you do it.
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NewsSeven of the World’s Most Extreme Wine Cellars
Hotels and homes alike are competing to install wine cellars that are taller, brighter, larger or simply fancier than the rest.
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NewsFour Unmissable Visual and Digital Installations at Auckland Fringe
Ever interacted with a digital animal, played a video game projected onto a building fascade or been part of a joystick orchestra? Now's your chance.
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NewsIntroducing: Nike Flyknit Lunar1+
Based on the hugely popular ‘Flyknit’ which was launched during the Olympics last year, the Flyknit Lunar1+ is a lightweight, formfitting and virtually seamless Nike Flyknit upper combined with the super plush, responsive Lunarlon cushioning.
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NewsBeautifully Creepy Posters of David Lynch Films
Jeremy Saunders didn't plan on making minimalist poster redesigns. But then he watched David Lynch's Lost Highway.
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NewsTen of the Best at Sculpture on the Gulf 2013
Concrete Playground rounds up some of our favourites pieces at the Sculpture on the Gulf 2013.
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NewsThe House That 3D Printing Built
Universe Architecture puts the new technology to monumental use.
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NewsSeven Incredible Structures Made From Recycled Paper
Some have taken their dedication to reusing and recycling to an entirely new level.
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NewsThe Spectacular Sandcastles of Calvin Seibert
You can't make these with your regular plastic spade and bucket.
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NewsAmazing Bars Around the World
When it comes to mind-boggling designs, wacky themes and unique going-out experiences then these ten bars are a cut above the rest.
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NewsNike Collaborates with NZ Photographer Tom Gould
New Zealand photographer Tom Gould as partnered with Nike to celebrate the 30th Anniversary of the Nike Air Force 1 Sneakers.
