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Architecture, Art, Design & Built Environments

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

High Security: 150 Creepy Cameras Installed on 1 Blank Wall

If you ever get that feeling you are being watched, well, for once it really is just your imagination - this fleet of surveillance cams is inactive but still startling to anyone caught by ...

Top 40 of the Year: Essential 2013 Article List for Urbanists

As any experienced urbanist can tell you, city life is rarely dull and this year has proven no exception - from traffic-topping articles to staff-picked stories, here are WebUrbanist's must-read ...

Color-Coded Cars: Time-Collapse Film Reorders Rush Hour

There is no computer-generated imagery behind this surreal-seeming scenography, but rather a skillful remixing of reality to sort actual automobiles by color. Artist and filmmaker Cy ...

Secret Slums: Ramshackle Rooftop Villages of Hong Kong

These hidden shanty towns, often invisible from the streets below, sprawl like surrealist suburbs across the roofs of one of the most densely-populated and expensive cities in the ...

Architectural Kaleidoscopes: Buildings Spun into Fractal Art

Reimagined, repositioned and recomposed, this photo manipulation series turns familiar elements of buildings into abstracted compositions that morph beyond architecture, bridging disparate worlds ...

Colorful Pop-Up: City Farm Storefront for Produce & Plants

This competition-winning design uses upcycled materials to frame a street-facing  experience, in part through a fresh take on 'window shopping'. Its aim: to create a unique and ...

Rough Sleeper: Mobile Backpack Shelter for Urban Homeless

Amid the various conceptual designs for addressing large-scale homelessness, this working prototype stands out as refreshingly realistic, practical and applicable to the everyday needs of those ...

Encyclopedic Landscape: Artist Carves 24-Volume Book Set

In his most voluminous undertaking to date, this book artist bids farewell to the long legacy of printed Encyclopedia Britannica sets with a mountainous tribute to their 244 years of ...

Slices of Home: Modular Mobile House-Shaped Micro-Rooms

Spatial separation can be as much about a feeling of enclosure as a physical divider, like this set of portable lounge structures that provide a semi-secluded experience in an otherwise wide-open ...

Hopscotch Intersection: 4 Artists Hack 16 Public Crosswalks

Sixteen crosswalks at four intersections in Baltimore are the subject of a street-spanning public art project that re-imagines white-on-black zebra striping, each with a unique ...

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