Guerrilla Kindness: Add-Ons Make Cities More Convenient
Three designers sneak around Paris, quickly installing brightly-colored machine-fabricated objects onto public chairs, phones, vending machines and other urban surfaces to make them more ...
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.LEGO Architecture: 12 Sets Explore Buildings Brick by Brick
Whether official or fan-created, LEGO architecture sets enable wannabe builders to understand just how some of the world's most iconic structures come together in terms of architectural elements, ...
CityCharge: Solar Gadget Charging Stations Installed in NYC
Anyone passing through New York City's Bryant Park can avoid the headache of searching for free outlets at coffee shops to juice up their phones, powering up at outdoor tables with built-in solar ...
Topographic Tables: 12 Terrain-Inspired Furniture Designs
Meandering rivers, icebergs and a deep blue abyss are invoked in layers of blue-green glass, burled wood and cast concrete and translated into tables. Ranging from self-taught artists crafting ...
Time in Color: Skatepark Graffiti Acts as a Working Sundial
Skaters at this park in Lugano, Switzerland don't have to pull out their phones to check the time - they can just glance down at a series of colored lines painted right onto the concrete of the ...
Urban Camo: Body Paint Blends Humans into City Backdrops
Human figures blend into iconic New York City scenes, from the Brooklyn Bridge to the Guggenheim Museum, in artist Trina Merry's tromp l'eoil urban camouflage works. Each subject is carefully ...
Frozen in Motion: 24 Stunning High Speed Photographs
Spectacular forms that come together and dissipate far too quickly for human eyes to perceive are captured permanently using high-speed photography techniques. The elusive and temporary shapes ...
Urban Surfing: City Dwellers Catch Radical Artificial Waves
Until recently, anyone who wanted to surf the artificial waves in a river in Munich's English Garden had to do so under cover of night, with one eye on the shore watching out for police. But in the ...
Offbeat & Off the Grid: 15 Surprisingly Mobile Solar Gadgets
Solar power projects go truly off-the-grid in mobile applications that range from practical if goofy solar panel-equipped Ray Bans to donkeys that stroll around with photovoltaics mounted to ...
Bloodswept Lands: Poppies Pour out of the Tower of London
Bloodswept Lands and Seas of Red is the appropriately dramatic name for this incredible installation of red ceramic poppies pouring from an upper window into the dry moat around the Tower of ...
