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

Beyond Beautification: Brazil Art Project Paints All the Things

Brazil is no stranger to paint-based urban interventions, of  whichRio de Janeiro is frequently the focus, but the scope and scale of this project in particular truly boggles the brain. ...

Structural Graffiti: Street Art Tags Fresh Architectural Design

Architecture and graffiti are always a bit scandalous, as architects usually want anything but graffiti on the sides of their buildings. Not so in this structure, where the facade incorporates a ...

Skyscraper of the Sea: Research Ship Sailed by Astronauts

Visionary French architect Jacques Rougerie has refined the SeaOrbiter design concept for over a decade, and is finally seeing his dream come to life as this marine monstrosity moves beyond ...

Stair Rover: Smooth-Ride Skateboard Glides Down Steps

If you thought biking down stairs was hard, try skating a stairwell - or better yet: don't. At least not without this nifty device, that is. Designed by Po-Chih Lai (movie by Juriaan Booij), ...

Future Shocks: 5 Incredible Concept Cars & Cool Prototypes

From two-and-three-wheeled concept cars to real-life transformers for land, sea and air, the idea of all-terrain vehicle is starting to take on new meaning both on and off the ground. In this ...

Vertical Strip Tease: Upside-Down Las Vegas Skyscraper

Vegas is a strange and sometimes-seedy speck of civilization with virtually nothing nearby of note ... save perhaps the massive Hoover Dam and its associated geology, that is. ...

Top Models of Tomorrow: 5 Retro-Futuristic Car Designs

Though times and vehicular technologies change, at least one thing remains the same: concept cars drive vehicle design, both on and off the drawing board. What seems visionary and perhaps ...

Ghostly Paper Mansions & Spectral Stop-Motion Animations

Architectural renderings that are too realistic leave little to the imagination. At the opposite end of the spectrum, these folded-paper interiors are more like words than images on the page, ...

Wall Art Gone Wild: Fantastic Life-Sized Room Sketches

With some of her works it is hard to tell where the two-dimensional art ends and 3D objects begin, blending as they do into one semi-continuous, surface-defying series of overlapping murals. ...

Double Agent JR: Undercover Photographer & Guerilla Artist

Photographers are the subject of a medium-old question: does their work represent reality, or create new realities? This one undoubtedly does both, putting images of eyes and faces up in urban ...

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