WebUrbanist

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

Redefining Rustic Materials: 6 Modern Log Furniture Makers

Logs typically conjure images of remote cabins and plaid-clad workers felling trees. As these seven creative designers and craftspeople show, though, log furniture can be cool, clever and ...

Paper City Animation: “Rise & Fold” of a Fragile Metropolis

Unfolding like a pop-up book in real time, this incredible little built landscape of buildings and bridges, trees and mountains, lampposts and benches rises from nothing then fades back into the ...

Social Signage: Digital Street Sign Gives Dynamic Directions

The shape is a familiar classic - a central post pointing toward different destinations, sometimes near and other times a world away. This evolved version, however, replaces static locations and ...

LEGO House: Experience Center Made of Interlocking Blocks

Fans wanting to fully experience the world of LEGO are sure to marvel at this newly-revealed hometown headquarters - the whole complex is being build up like a giant stack of interlocked ...

Insanely Ingenious: Longboard Stroller for Daredevil Parents

Insane, ingenious, or both, this design combines an alternative way to commute with your kids, assuming you can get past the skateboarding aspect and feel safe moving at speed while pushing your ...

Little & Local: Staircase Cinema & Sidewalk Library Projects

Public art used to be synonymous with huge and impersonal and location-agnostic sculptures made of metal and marble. Countering that classic Modernist trend are installations like this pair: a ...

Nail House: Holdout Building Had Highway Built Around It

China is full of strange stories of so-called 'nail houses' - homes of people who refuse to move to make way for a large development project. Still, this one was particularly unique: its owners ...

Secret Speakeasy: Abandoned Water Tower Nightclub in NYC

New York has a long history of hidden and illicit venues - one that did not stop when prohibition was lifted. There is the innocuous pizza shop where dialing the right number in their phone booth ...

Unauthorized Installations: The Fine Art of Urban Subversion

Brad Downey is familiar with both sides of the art world, with a fine arts degree and gallery exhibitions, on the one hand, and run-ins with the authorities about his sometimes-unsanctioned ...

Walk on Water: Hydro-Floors Hide Secret Swimming Pools

Adding a swimming pool or hot tub means displacing something else - usually a outdoor lawn, yard or deck or dedicated room inside a house. But what if you could have the best of both worlds: a ...

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