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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 @KurtKohlstedt

Real 3D Sketches: 3 Furniture Sets that Draw on 2D Doodles

Like photo-realistic art in reverse, these three-dimensional objects are carefully crafted to look like rough-edged, hand-sketched representations. If the approach looks familiar, you might be ...

Car-Free City: Hamburg Announces Audacious 20-Year Plan

Germany may be known for its green political party and sustainable energy focus, but this daring plan to eliminate the need for automobiles entirely across the country's second-largest metropolis ...

20-Hour House: How to 3D-Print 2,500 Square Feet in 1 Day

Combining ancient earthen-architecture approaches and cutting-edge robotic technologies, this contour crafting process promises a revolution in how we address one of our most basic and universal ...

Invisible Tree: Trunk Wrapped & Camouflaged to Float on Air

A simple illusion with so much potential - wrap an object, paint the wrapping plastic and presto, a central section appears to disappear before your eyes. In the the case of this ...

Nautical Architectures: Electrified Reefs to Waterfall Prisons

Like a speculative fiction novelist, Margot Krasojevic creates fantastical work that manages to combine real design challenges of our times with futuristic solutions. Whatever your position on ...

Hot Cup of Tub: Portable Wood-Fired Outdoor Soaking Pool

No need to plug in this particular hot tub - heat naturally circulates as you burn wood, keeping yourself warm outside by throwing logs on the fire much like you would in front of a living room ...

Nomadic Urbanism: Futuristic ‘Walking City’ Draws on History

The notion of a mobile city is not new, but in this case, the architect has gone to great lengths to construct a vision that could conceivably be built. So while it may look like fantasy at first ...

Focus on Blur: Bokeh Cityscapes Celebrate Color & Light

Stretching and reversing conventions for balancing foreground and background, one urban photographer in Tokyo is taking the Japanese concept of Bokeh to dazzling extremes. Bokeh (which ...

Street Smart: Intelligent Motion-Activated Outdoor Lighting

While we are all familiar with motion-detection technology in controlled indoor environments, the technology problem is much more complex when you add stray animals, wind-blown trees, ...

Fresh Spin: Rounded Space-Saving Clothes Drying Rack

Hanging clothes out to dry is a design problem with a long history and many solutions, making it all the more rare to see something like this clever star-shaped approach that addresses the issue ...

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