4-Dimensional Photography: Artistic Time-Lapse City Collages
Motion pictures aside, the nature of photographic representation implies freezing space in time - a moment captured and preserved, independent of what comes before or after. Yet, as ...
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 @KurtKohlstedtCurved Skyscraper Melts Cars, Starts Fires with Heat of Sun
A nearly-complete London tower is being investigated thanks to reflected daylight that is dazzling (and sizzling) the neighborhood in extreme, surprising and undesirable ways. The structure is ...
Live Between Buildings: Narrow Micro-Homes Fill City Gaps
Playful yet thought-provoking, this project asks: what do we do with small leftover spaces in cities ... particularly in urban areas where even a few square feet of real estate can cost a ...
Swiss-Army Bathroom: Spine-Inspired Space-Saving Design
Like a giant-sized Swiss Army knife, this narrow column unfolds to reveal everything your bathroom could need - a NASA-worthy, space-age modular design idea. A water-transmitting 'spinal ...
Indoor Skydiving Inside Concrete Silos & Cargo Containers
Take your pick between a pair of once-abandoned silos: one lets you explore nearly 100 vertical feet of underwater space with hidden caverns, while the other suspends you in virtual free fall, ...
Stack on Sheets: Minimalist Printer Needs No Paper Tray
An elegant concept and beautifully executed, this thesis project strips away everything but the essentials from the process of printing, proposing a simple solution to reduce visual clutter in ...
Animal House: Woodland Creatures Adopt Deserted Cabins
These interior photos by Kai Fagerström depict wild forest inhabitants who have made derelict human-owned dwellings their own - domestic portraits-at-home with a undomesticated ...
Micro-Cities: Tiny Buildings Fuel Miniature Urban Renewal
Electrical boxes beware - Evol is back to up to his old tricks, turning urban fixtures and unused walls into tiny cityscapes using a deceptively simple toolbox comprised of cardboard, stencils ...
15-Year Photo Project: Construction of a 150-Year Bridge
A photography project well over a decade in the making, these images by Joseph Blum show the human side and vast scale of construction behind the world's largest self-anchored suspension bridge, ...
Beautifully Simple: School Bus Turned Minimal Mobile Home
You could make a strong case for this vehicle being barely recognizable as such. The dimensions, fenestration and over spatial configuration give good clues that this space may have once been a ...
