Following the successful workshop Inflating the Public_2 led by Marco Canvacci, architect and founder of Plastique Fantastique (Berlin), Urban Gorillas inflated City Plaza in downtown Nicosia with one of their temporary structures for a couple of hours during the Pop-Up Festival on 23 November 2014. Inflatable structures such as the one briefly installed at City Plaza …
19-20-21 September 2014_18:00-21:00 Urban Gorillas NGO in partnership with the Architecture Research Centre (ARC) of the University of Nicosia ran a pop-up event in the walled city of Nicosia following the recent workshop Inflating the Public_I, with invited guest inflatables specialist from Rome, Daniele Mancini. Participants installed temporary inflatable structures at five different locations within …
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In May 2014 we took a disused bus from the scrap yard and converted it into a temporary urban installation that transformed a pavement area at Ayios Antonios Park, along Stasinou Avenue outside the old walls of Nicosia, into a shaded green space for social interaction among city dwellers. With this project we were able to …
