Hunt, Peck & Paint: Chromatic Typewriter Prints Landscapes
Many works of amazing literary art have been printed on typewriters in times past, but this re-purposing concept takes an old machine beyond words and into the realm of colorful ...
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 @KurtKohlstedtHomeless Hotel: Radical Urban Retreat has No Rooms, Ever
You may have seen some strange and unique accommodations on AirBNB, but few hosts can boast something as unusual as Faktum Hotels, an unreal room-free resort in Sweden. Their offerings are ...
Lunar Soil Structures: 3D-Printing Dwellings on the Moon
One of the biggest challenges of settlements in space is the cost of transporting materials and technologies for construction, a problem addressed beautifully via 3D printing technology in this ...
Preservation Puzzle: Extreme Ideas to Save an Urban Facade
The Prentice Women’s Hospital building at Northwestern University has some serious fans, including a range of architects such as Frank Gehry, Robert Venturi, Tadao Ando, Jacques Herzog, Pierre ...
Airborne Architecture: 12 Images of Flying French Houses
Context - that is the key to taking the ordinary and making it amazing in this series of displaced homes soaring up from forgotten streets of Paris. The results float like an intentionally ...
Works of Impossible Architecture Built from Found Photos
Like dreams while you are having them, these buildings make perfect sense subjectively and yet no sense objectively. They are seamlessly integrated, yet structurally surreal ... and, like a dream ...
Future Skyscraper: Arup Presents Awesome Vision for 2050
Rather than turning toward far-flung science-fiction, these designers have extrapolated current engineering techniques and evolving technologies. This skyscraper thus fuses passive power ...
Custom Redress: 7 DIY Clothing Designs, Ideas & Reuses
From color-your-own and converted-umbrella dresses to hoodies-turned-tote-bags and color-scanning sewing machines, a simple, clever and clearly-executed design concept can be as brilliant as the ...
Spiral Out of Control: Guggenheim Museum Extension Idea
The Guggenheim Museum in New York may be the most iconic work of American architect Frank Lloyd Wright - as such, any addition to it will invariably be the center of much debate ... but this one ...
Lessons in Graffiti: Math Symbols Make Street Art Equations
1 window plus 1 window equals 2 windows - seems obvious, but it warrants at least a double-take, so to speak, when you see it so explicitly expressed. Simple black-outlined, white-filled, ...
