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

Perfect Pitch: Impossibly Starry City Skies in Blackest Night

Massive power outages give us rare glimpses of darkened cities, but in normal conditions, there is simply no way to see the starry skies above the typical urban metropolis - but one photographer ...

Origami Shelter: Instant Flat-Pack Architecture on Demand

Take a structure, strip away all of the non-essentials, and squeeze out every last unused bit of air space, and what do you get? Something a lot like a folded sheet of paper. This folding ...

Offcut Cityscapes: Sketching Sculptures with Band Saws

An adept furniture maker is familiar with scrap - but this designer-and-artist has turned leftover materials into something just as fantastic as his normal finished projects. James ...

Warped Reality: Media Mis-Coverage of Invisibility Cloak

This author would like nothing more than to tell you that the above images are of a real-life working prototype of the most amazing invention of the century. That sentence should be clue enough, ...

Static Flip Books: 360-Degree Scenes in Panoramic Pages

Like a flip book, there is no text, and each page of these volumes contains a slightly different scene. Except instead of paging through them rapidly to reveal the story, the 'reader' unfolds the ...

As Seen on TV: Floor Plans from Famous Television Series

A talented cast, backed by brilliant directors and writers, makes you feel like part of the action - not just through the actors telling a story, but also via the familiar spaces they regularly ...

Rendering the Digital Physical: 10 Bitcoin Designs & Ideas

The crypto-currency Bitcoin is all over social media, blogs and news sites. But beyond the volatility, speculation and noise there is a fascinating question being asked and answered: from coins ...

Tag Before the Tide: Temporary 3D Sand Graffiti by DAIM

Artist Mirko Reisser has long developed a highly personalized (and profoundly cool) approach to making two-dimensional tags appear three-dimensional on surfaces, but in this unusual project, he ...

Recovering Literature: Bold Classic Book Cover Redesigns

It takes a powerful book to survive decades or even centuries and stay prominently in the public eye. This pair of classics are a rarity in that respect, but like any books, one thing does change ...

Future Architecture: 7 Surreal Award-Winning Skyscrapers

The first skyscrapers were impossible drawings at the times they were imagined, yet today glass towers that scale to the skies are everyday structures.  On land, by sea, in the air (or in one ...

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