WebUrbanist | Archived Articles by Author: Steph
Steph is the steadfast super-writer who will tackle any topic and take it to the extreme, finding the most fascinating sources and strange images to support her articles.
Open Secret: The Ghost Town of New York City
Just blocks from busy Brooklyn, 'The Hole' is an abandoned neighborhood that's thirty feet below sea level, making it a flood basin reclaimed by the marsh.
7 Mysterious & Monumental Man-Made Wonders of America
7 of America's most amazing and mysterious attractions, from unexplained archaeological ruins to modern-day monuments with instructions for the post-apocalypse.
Bubbletecture: Poppable Building Made of Soap Bubbles
A Dutch architecture firm creates an interactive exhibit in which visitors raise a temporary pavilion with glass-like bubble walls from mirrored pools of soap.
Mini Rube Goldberg Machine Makes Cool Travel Companion
A Dutch design studio packs an amazingly complex Rube Goldberg machine into two suitcases, two years after producing the world's largest room-sized machine.
Sub(limb)inal Criminals: Faux Legs, Arms & Heads as Art
Appearing on the streets in the most unexpected ways, faux severed limbs can be funny, disgusting or just strange - but they're always head-turning.
Salt Sculptures: 12 Stunning Artworks by Motoi Yamamoto
Japanese artist Motoi Yamamoto uses salt's symoblic role in Japanese culture to create amazingly complex and emotional salt sculptures and drawings.
Team Eames: New Movie Shows Off Timeless Architect & Painter
Two of the 20th century's most influential designers are demystified in the documentary 'Eames - The Architect and the Painter.'
Floating Cinema Deserves a Standing (or Swaying) Ovation
A temporary floating cinema nestled in a sparkling blue Thailand lagoon for a festival provides perhaps the most scenic movie-watching experience of all time.
3D Printing Goes Giant: Print Your Own Home?!
Imagine programming a large-scale, 3D-printing robot to simply print your entire home, from top to bottom, within a matter of hours.
Into Abyss: World's Largest Deserted Underwater Film Set
Urban explorers sneaked into the abandoned Cherokee Nuclear Power Plant where 'The Abyss' was filmed, capturing images of the set before it was demolished.
Conceptual Construction: 14 Improbable Tower Designs
These unlikely skyscraper designs are futuristic, innovative and strange, but all 14 are technically possible, and some are even under construction right now.
Remote and Abandoned: The Decaying Dutch Harbor Bunkers
Over 100 bunkers and other structures left behind on the Aleutian Islands off Alaska after World War II still dot the remote countryside, crumbling into ruin.
Robot Workshop: Contest Winners Envision Futuristic Innovation Space
The three winners of the suckerPUNCH Robot Workshop competition envision a futuristic, creative space in which robotics innovators can convene and work.
Spatial Gymnastics: Environments for Tomorrow Exhibition
Artists and architects come together to explore the spatial structures that can solve the problems of humanity's future in this exhibition at MOT.
Outside Offices: 14 Detached Work Pods, Eggs, Modules & More
These 14 modern detached offices and studios are compact, self-contained and easy to assemble, making them perfect for serene backyard work spaces.














