Floating on Ephemerisle: Seasteading Event ala Burning Man
For all its art and controversy, the desert is perhaps the most unique defining characteristic of Black Rock City, home of the Burning Man Festival in rural Nevada. Potentially even more ...
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 @KurtKohlstedtCellograff: Wall-Free Graffiti Sprayed on Clear Cellophane
Tagging is typically considered an urban art. At the very least you need walls to write on, right? Not necessarily - some clever artists have started to stretch cellophane between any available ...
Sky Park: Design Idea Floats City Block Over Penn Station
Out of four recent proposals for a radical overhaul of Penn Station in New York City, this concept by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP is far and away the most dramatic - and arguably the most ...
GoGo & Multiplo: Modular Building Blocks for Kids & Adults
Two very similar designs with somewhat different audiences, Multiplo emphasizes their kit-of-parts approach as a means toward making convertible adult furniture, while Gogo Blocks are presented ...
Natural Lighting: Grow Your Own Glow-in-the-Dark Plants
Imagine the possibilities: cities illuminated at night not with carbon dioxide-producing energy sources, but with real glow-in-the-dark trees that light up streets and sidewalks ...
Tag Clouds & More: Geek Street Artist Remakes Messy Graffiti
To the uninitiated, used to seeing it but not to reading it, graffiti scrawl can seem illegible. In a play on both tagging and technology, this artist turns traditional tags into computer-style ...
Ground, Up! Curved Green Sky Gardens Wrap Tower Hotel
The best of both worlds: guests at this hotel get to enjoy skyscraper-high views and still experience layers of intensive greenery on virtually all levels. A series of sleek towers rises ...
Windows of New York: Weekly Documentary Design Project
Fascination bleeds into fixation in this wonderful ongoing series of illustrations by a graphic designer who enjoys the nuances of fenestration in his favorite city. Each piece in the ...
Borrowed from Libraries: Mobile Shelving for Modular Rooms
When libraries want to save space, they employ a rolling stack system that allows access to only one or a few aisles at one time. When not in use, the walkways between disappear as the bookcases ...
Urban Hybrid: Double-Exposure Photos Fuse London & NYC
While photo shoots can be meticulously staged, sometimes the best shots come with an element of surprise - particularly in the chaotic context of cities like New York an London. Architect ...
