It's not graffiti, it's aerosol art.
You don't have to spend like a stockbroker to have a good time in the city, and there is certainly much more than just sitting in one of the numerous parks! Here are a selection of free things to do to enjoy the summer in the city.
Welcome back to the Untapped Cities partnership with Gehl Institute in Copenhagen, looking at the impact of data, both open and collected, in the design of cities.
Googleplex was the product of a distinct tension (and ultimately a collaboration) between architect and client. What is most extraordinary was the initiative to make the interior spaces of the headquarters feel like a town.
Sydney is packed with art festivals for summer: Sculpture by the Sea, Vivid Sydney and Outpost Young Artists Project on Cockatoo Island.
The abandoned office where Wall Street was filmed is home to some great artists.
This Saturday is New York City’s first Bring to Light Nuit Blanche Art Festival, a block party of artists, performers and musicians amidst Greenpoint’s urban industrial backdrop of metal workshops and textile factories. In an urban takeover, artists will “create works that inhabit street corners, galleries, shops, rooftops, vacant lots and buildings.”
Secret passageways under Chinatown, remnants of a bygone Bowery beer hall, a rooftop film studio”¦Author David Freeland writes of these and more in his book Automats, Taxi Dances and Vaudeville: Excavating Manhattan’s Lost Places of Leisure.