A Starbucks in Tokyo designed by architects Kengo Kuma and Associates. 

Participative Urban Art project in a favela in Sao Paula that “focuses on ‘vecos’ and ‘vielas’: winding streets that are the true articulators of the internal life of the community.”

Children playing on roundabouts in a public square generate electrical power to illuminate twirling parasols as a part of an installation by Spanish studio Clavel Arquitectos for the Shenzhen & Hong Kong biennale of urbanism/architecture 2011. 

An interactive installation in New York’s Time Square that refracts light from its surroundings to form a glowing heart shape. As people touch the sensors on the acrylic tubes, the intensity of the light increases. 

Architecten’s temporary ‘vertical garden’ facade at the Stadskantoor, Rotterdam’s central administrative office.

Istiklal Caddesi, the central pedestrian artery of Istanbul.

An interactive census data map for Canadian cities at http://www.globalnews.ca/pages/topicNew.aspx?id=6442571714 

The Eaton Centre (Toronto) turns 35 years old. 

Paper Architecture by Ingrid Siliakus

Floor installation by Do-ho Suh at the Venice Art Biennial, 2001. Viewers encouraged to walk on the floor being held up by thousands of tiny plastic human figurines. 

A cathedral made of 55,000 LED lights as a part of the Light Festival in Ghent, Belgium.

This mirrored installation by artist Leandro Erlich, at Le 104 in Paris, gives the optical illusion of being on the facade of the building while actually on the mirror on the floor in front of it. 

A guerrilla gardening project in the potholes of East London.

http://thepotholegardener.com/ 

The New Stuttgart City Library

$1 Max parking at University and Adelaide! (1967)

German conceptual artist Frank Bolter successfully floated his 5.4m long paper boat “HMS Origami” down the river Thames in London.

Pressure washed mural on a mossy wall in Leuven, Belgium by Stefaan de Crook

Elefante Naranja by Javier Requejo