Urban Jungle Street View: 3D Hack Uses Hidden Depth Data
An explicitly illicit use of dimensional data buried in Google Street View, the Urban Jungle project adds eerie layers of post-apocalyptic green overgrowth to major cities around the ...
Author: Kurt Kohlstedt
WebUrbanist was founded in 2007 by Kurt Kohlstedt, who currently writes and edits articles and episodes at 99% Invisible and can be found on Twitter @KurtKohlstedtAfter OZ: Dorothy’s Storm-Ravaged House Remade of Scrap
In a remarkable 24-hour collaboration, a series of artists banded together to build a replica of the infamous house from the Wizard of OZ - that ill-fated structure that carried Dorothy Gale so ...
Cool Million: Famous 420 Square Foot SoHo Condo for Sale
A multifunctional masterpiece built with crowd-sourced design ideas and a small-space vision by the founder of TreeHugger, this New York City apartment is now for sale for ...
Tree-Inspired Tower: Condo Balconies Unfurl Like Leaves
An iconic new mixed-use development in the heart of Montpellier in southern France, L’Arbre Blanc (The White Tree) grew out of a design concept tied to the outdoor traditions of this temperate ...
Transforming Furniture: Fitting 5 Rooms into 640 Square Feet
With a mostly-open floor plan tucked into 60 square meters of space, the design challenge was to effectively fit the functionality of five rooms into the footprint of two. The De Rotterdam ...
Facing Destruction: Entire City to Be Relocated 2 Miles Away
No hoax, it is happening - 20,000 occupants of Kiruna, Sweden, are being forced to pull up stakes and relocate their entire urban center to avoid having it fall off the face of the ...
Cubicle Typography: Unique Desks as Office Furniture Font
One of the most dreary aspects of daily life in a cubical farm is the relentless sameness that pervades each office pod - perhaps it would help if each workspace were different, easy to assemble ...
Sand Cities: Geometric Architecture Sculpted from Beaches
A serious step beyond traditional sand castles, these sculptural micro-structures range from simple sets of cubes to miniature buildings and architectural complexes. Calvin ...
Kinetic Facade: Awesome Adaptive Window Shading System
Buildings are forever in tension, being static objects in a dynamic world - light conditions in particular shift predictably yet variably throughout the day, week, season and year, in turn ...
Window Sketches: Minimalist Landscapes of Steam & Glass
No smoke-and-mirrors or post-production here, just fleeting vignettes swiftly staged on steamed windows and set against natural outdoor backgrounds. Jim Osborne is a self-taught landscape ...
