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Each MINIInternational print magazine issue takes a particular global city as its theme, showcasing its culture, people and pulsating life. MINIInternational absorbs the world and conveys it to its readers. Read a selection of articles right here online.

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Going to the movies with like-minded people beats watching a DVD at home.
In response to the ongoing extinction of drive-in movie culture, Bryan Kennedy organises spontaneous outdoor screenings for mobile moviegoers. At the MobMov screenings you sit snugly inside your car surrounded by hundreds of other vehicles, and everyone enjoys an unobstructed view of a gigantic bare wall in places like the deserted warehouse yard on Treasure Island, the former naval facility in San Francisco Bay. Viewers simply tune their radio to 88.3 MHz and watch the wall illuminate with a vintage commercial. more
 

MINIInternational #29: San Francisco

Coit Tower, one of the city's many landmarks.
 
San Francisco is that little bit more curious, colourful, courageous - and sometimes crazier - than other cities. It's a place that embraces new ideas, whether the hippie movement, its prolific digital, technical and web-based innovations (Silicon Valley is, as it were, virtually on the doorstep), or its community initiatives. San Francisco is the green capital of America, moreover, and has become an exciting model for the future of our big cities: creative, stylish, innovative, socially and environmentally aware. A laidback, spectacularly beautiful, hip, little big city, it is also blessed with a benign climate. In its latest issue, MINIInternational magazine turns the spotlight on San Francisco. more

Dancing for green energy

Paul Hemming (left) and Mike Zuckerman
The Temple at the Zen Compound entertainment complex is arguably the greenest nightclub in the world. This 3,700-square-metre complex in San Francisco's trendy SoMa (South of Market) district also houses the Prana Restaurant and the Temple Music Group record label. more
 

Eugene Tsui builds like the barnacle

The Tsui House: its biomorphic shapes are still clearly recognisable after completion.
Architect Eugene Tsui systematically follows Mother Nature in his designs. There are no straight lines - nature, after all, knows no right angles. Tsui modelled his parents' house after the tardigrade, a microscopically tiny water creature, while a neighbourhood home annexe mimics the highly resistant shell of an ocean barnacle.  more
 

Architecture for Humanity

AFH founders Kate Stohr and Cameron Sinclair.
When survivors of a natural disaster quickly need a roof over their heads, there's a small San Francisco-based organisation that is often on hand to help out. Architecture for Humanity (AFH) was set up by Cameron Sinclair and Kate Stohr, who wanted to promote humanitarian and aesthetic architecture in crisis-stricken areas. more
 

Futurefarmers - Botanical Gameboys grow in San Francisco

Amy Franceschini, the founder of Futurefarmers.
Futurefarmers has pushed the boundaries of design - with its Solar Panel Music Boxes, a backyard Bioreactor that creates hydrogen from algae, and the Botanical Gameboy that runs off the voltage harvested from lemon trees. Futurefarmers is exploring the design of the future.  more
 

Jared Blumenfeld

Jared Blumenfeld
San Francisco is drawing attention to itself with a multitude of unusual ideas. And behind it all is Jared Blumenfeld, a 38-year-old lawyer from England and director of the Department of the Environment. One of Blumenfeld's ideas was to print blue and yellow banderoles with the words "Future Sea Level". more
 

Current TV

Teamworkers: (from left) Allison Davis, Matthew Sultan, Ezra Cooperstein and Fhay Arceo of Current TV.
An alternative TV channel from San Francisco takes a radical departure from conventional structures. At Current TV the programmes are produced by the viewers themselves. more
 

Academy of Sciences

the new Academy of Sciences
27 September sees the California Academy of Sciences opening its new building in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park - a spectacular and ecologically through-designed edifice by Italian star architect Renzo Piano which even uses discarded jeans for insulation.  more
 

Amy Sarabi’s fashions speak for her generation

Sequences in nature: Sarabi's Mushroom Collection.
San Francisco could become for America what Antwerp is for Europe: a breeding ground for youthful fashion designers. And you can be sure that one young fashionista will be up there among the front-runners: 24-year-old Amy Sarabi.
 
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