Cool Colors: Rainbow Igloo Built of 500 Translucent Blocks
When your prospective future mother-in-law takes the time to fill hundreds of cartons with colored water before your visit, it would behoove you to do something with them. And thus this ...
Author: Urbanist
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 @KurtKohlstedtGeometric Projections: Light Art Radically Reshapes Nature
Everyone knows there are mathematical patterns to be found everywhere in nature - though few such geometries are as explicit and dazzling as those imposed by this projection artist. Javier ...
Treehouse Taster: 3 Wildly Different Types of Tree Houses
Regular readers will know that this site love tree houses of all types, but in researching articles a few have slipped through the cracks, their stories and histories unknown, yet the images of ...
Doing it Wrong: Funny Photo-Edited Urban Improbabilities
It would be entirely right and wrong at the same time to call this body of work realistic. On the one hand, the results look like pictures (which form the basis of these manipulations) - on the ...
Stop Shops: Virtual Store Shelves in Subway & Bus Stations
If you are going to have to wait for a ride anyway, why not do some shopping? No, not on your laptop or that tiny screen of your smartphone - right there on the wall, via virtual aisles on a ...
Self Snuggling: 7 Super-Cozy Full Body-Wrapping Seats
Forget your chair-and-blank combination - with these ultra-warm wonders of domestic design, curling up with a good book has never seemed more enticing. Speaking of chairs and blankets, Aga ...
High Seas Venture: SF Tech Incubator in International Waters
Imagine heading out from San Francisco to a bustling technology hub closer than Silicon Valley ... yet an entire country away. Set only a dozen miles from the coast, this incredible incubator is ...
Tentsile: Extreme Travel Tree Tents Hang Like Hammocks
Hikers and campers have long been used to hanging food packs out of reach of bears and scavengers, but these tensile treehouse shelters take things a few steps further, allowing you to loft your ...
LEGO Abandonments: Home-Made Model Haunted Houses
Hundreds of hours and in some cases over one hundred thousand pieces have gone into the creation of this series of seriously detailed LEGO models, each constructed to replicate the processes of ...
Pirate Island Radio Station Invaded, Dismantled & Rebuilt
Few works of architecture can boast half so strange a history as this structure now serving as a restaurant in the waters of Amsterdam. Built in the Republic of Ireland, the platform known ...
