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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

Rolling Out the Green Carpet: Grass Circle Transforms Madrid Public Square

Marking the 400th anniversary of the Plaza Mayor in Madrid, a grassy circle measuring over 35,000 square feet was rolled out to create seating space for over 100,000 visitors across a four-day ...

684 Miles of Wire: Robots Complete World’s First 3D-Printed Steel Bridge

Weighing close to 10,000 pounds, the complex shape and curvy form of this stainless steel bridge reflects the multi-axis printers that made it, line by molten line, and help highlight the ...

Vespa Revamp: Classic Scooter Brought up to Speed with Electric Redesign

The Vespampère is slim, light and stylish, recalling a vintage classic from 1948 with an electric motor and other contemporary technological tweaks to bring it in tune with the modern era. Among ...

Final Estate: Beloved Architect Zaha Hadid’s Only House Design is Complete

Known for designing dynamically curved structures in cities, Zaha Hadid's only single-family residential project is certainly aligned with her signature style but also reacts to a very different ...

Augmented IKEA: Assembly App Shows Full-Scale 3D Building Instructions

Putting IKEA manuals into augmented reality, this phone app lets buyers scan their product's barcode, then swipe to follow steps in realtime against the actual backdrop of the room being used ...

Sketched Sculptures: Architectural Models Look Like Physical Drawings in 3D

Looking at one of his sculptures from a single perspective, it would be easy to mistake them for 2D drawings on a flat surface. After all, architects have a tendency to layer lines as they solve ...

D.C. Metro Rolls Out Color-Coded Escalator Rails to Guide Passengers

The Washington Metro Transit Authority has quietly rolled out a simple but ingenious wayfinding solution: colored escalator railings to guide passengers to their trains. Graphic designer Jen ...

Construction Brew: Rugged Coffee Maker Runs on Power Tool Batteries

Made by power tool-maker Makita, this is the ultimate coffee machine to energize construction workers, charged by the same batteries already in use on work sites. The CM501D is designed to derive ...

Touchable Typeface: Ingenious Fonts Combine Visual & Braille Characters

Braille type is often included as alongside conventional letters, but "Braille Neue" typesets blend both visible and tangible characters in the same space, creating hybrid alphabets that anyone ...

Reconstructing Ruins: Gifs Reanimate 7 Ancient Architectural Wonders

To visitors, architectural ruins are simply a modern reality, and their imagined reconstruction is left to descriptive plaques, statics images and the human imagination, but this series of ...

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