Low Cost House-in-a-House Made of 2 Shipping Containers
Two colorful shipping containers set inside a garage-like outer structure form a spacious yet incredibly affordable family home free of the issues that can sometimes come with crate-based ...
Author: SA Rogers
S.A. Rogers is a veteran print and web author covering architecture, design, art and more. With years of experience writing for WebUrbanist, hers is one of the core voices that defines the site. She has an uncanny knack for discovering and sharing hidden built environments, including abandoned places, world wonders, monumental mysteries and other urban secrets, some of which are hidden in plain sight.Dancing Traffic Signal Makes Crossing the Street More Fun
Impatient pedestrians eager to get across the street stop, point and laugh when they realize that the usually-static human figure in the crosswalk signal is dancing maniacally, waving its arms ...
Occupy Parking Spots: 15 Projects Reclaiming the Streets
In the asphalt-covered space that would normally be occupied by a single vehicle could be a bike rack, a dance floor, an outdoor cafe, a kiddie pool or a beautifully landscaped public park. ...
Roaming Homes: 15 DIY RVs, Converted Buses & Tiny Houses
Japanese tea houses spring from the roofs of ordinary-looking trucks, ornate handcrafted cabins are tacked onto school buses and fire trucks are converted into monster off-road RVs when ...
By the Silent Line: Watch an Abandoned Railroad Disappear
Among the rusting vestiges of Europe's Industrial Revolution, this 20-mile relic of a railroad in Paris has been abandoned since 1934, and while it has been retaken by nature in the ensuing ...
Fluorescent Geometry: Eye-Popping Murals by Maya Hayuk
Striking geometric shapes in acid-bright palettes breathe life into gray urban spaces thanks to the signature style of artist Maya Hayuk. Often appearing perfectly symmetrical, her work seems to ...
Rejected Starchitects: 8 Controversial Building Proposals
Even the world's most famous architects, from Zaha Hadid to Frank Gehry, get rejected sometimes. When Norman Foster's visionary proposal for a new London airport built right in the middle of the ...
Floating Neighborhood for NYC: How to Hover a Whole Megablock
How do you fit an entire new neighborhood for 65,000 people, complete with offices, schools and streets, into the already congested and overdeveloped island of Manhattan without knocking anything ...
Modular Cities: 13 Expandable Solutions for Urban Growth
As urban populations flourish, cities typically expand outward into suburbia or suffer growing pains with static infrastructure that just can't keep up. What if, instead, cities were based upon ...
Extreme Cliff Living: Modular House Dangles Precariously
Only the uppermost portion of this ambitious five-level home is visible when approaching from land, preserving the views for others and making for one dramatic way to live adjacent to the sea. ...
