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

Wallpaper Paint Rollers: Cool & Classic Patterns, DIY Style

Applying wallpaper is nothing if not frustrating - you have to line everything up just right, and if you ever want to take it down, it is nowhere near as easy as painting over an existing color ...

Street-Chic Boutique: Stunning Half-Graffitied Hotel Room

Dubbed "The Panic Room" nonetheless, this daring overnight dwelling space is not for those seeking visual peace or artistic quite, more likely to cause than curb panicky impulse (quite the ...

Car Ferry Converted into Hulking San Francisco Houseboat

It truly is a hulk of a thing to make into a live/work space, but there is an industrial loft-like quality that renders this decommissioned Icelandic car carrier appealingly open yet cozy at the ...

WebUrbanist Update: 5 Years & 50 Million Visitors Later

Five years ago, who would have thought that what started as an offbeat visual culture weblog would turn into a full-fledged (but still and always free) cosmopolitan online magazine? After just ...

Urban Suburbs: 4 McMansions Atop Chinese Shopping Mall

It sounds like a hoax at best, an architectural student thesis gone wrong at worst ... yet it is entirely real: a series of conventional-looking, a-frame abodes atop a gigantic mega-block ...

Material Worlds: All Their Possessions in Just One Picture

After a recent look at urban Europeans posing with all they own, this potent look at rural Asian families and their worldly possessions shows stark contrasts but surprising similarities as ...

Colorspace Atlas: Rainbow Book Features Full RGB Range

For a little light reading, or dark, depending on the page: imagine all the colors of the rainbow - including those we rarely see, and minute shades in between - packed into an 8-by-8-by-8 cube ...

Neighborly Art: Surreal Sky Bridge Spans 2 Typical Homes

Houses can be isolating in both positive and negative senses of the word, but what happens when you break down - or bridge - the gap created by yards and fences between two otherwise-ordinary ...

Deep Sea Mystery: Diving to Solve Underwater Crop Circles

At a depth of nearly 100 feet, what could possibly explain these radially-symmetrical patterns appearing on the ocean floor off the coast of Japan, like some kind of extra-terrestrial snow angel ...

World’s Smallest House? 1 Sq M of Mobile Living Space

In the last 30 years, the size of a typical home in the United States has shot up from under 1000 square feet to nearly 2500. It begs the question: how much room to we really need in order to ...

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