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Kurt Kohlstedt is the founder and executive editor of WebUrbanist. His graduate education in architecture and urban design and interest in writing and publishing led to the creation of this online magazine 2007. He regularly posts new articles here as well as on 99% Invisible. (On Twitter @KurtKohlstedt)

Cool Vernacular: How Regional Ceiling Heights Shape Room Temperatures

Modernism sought to bring a healthy uniformity to architectural design, in part through with clean lines and material minimalism. New technologies like air conditioning also allowed for an ...

Dispersed Hotel: Distributed Urban Suites Inspire Exploration of Historic Kyoto

It's a simple but powerful idea, spreading out and embedding hotel rooms into the urban fabric to give visitors a space from which to explore as well as a place that feels like it's more part of ...

Swim BIG: Artificial Island Supports World’s Largest Saltwater Pool Complex

Now open on the edge of Aarhus, Denmark's second-largest city, the Harbor Bath project features a main 150-foot-long pool as well as diving and children's pools, plus a pair of saunas. Naturally, ...

Getting Real: Placeholder Graphics Lead to Literal Architectural Renderings

Architects are sometimes criticized for taking creative liberties with their artwork, setting unlikely green scenes or populating their rendered scenes with an improbable array of happy ...

Daily City: London Architect Drafts 365 Urban Plans, 1 Day & Design at a Time

A London architect has is working to sketch a new city each day, mining his imagination and experience for fresh ideas for a full year, a practice inspired in part by the failures of modern urban ...

Miniature Calendar: Micro-City Scenes Made Daily from Household Objects

It takes just one artist to raise this annual micro-village, putting out a fresh scene daily featuring miniature people going about their everyday lives, navigating repurposed objects designed ...

Boats + Yards: Dutch Architects Convert Cargo Ships into Waterfront Homes

Lifting cargo ships out of boat yards in the water up onto adjacent land, a Dutch design firm is creating a series of creatively recycled estates using maritime vessels that are no longer ...

Four-Dimensional Murals: Artist Folds Space Inside Architectural Facades

Folding and flexible geometric forms seem to weave in and out of the structures graced with murals by David Louf (known as Mr. June), seeming to imply what a blank facade could have been in the ...

True Colors: Photographer Captures Urban Spectrum of Modern Istanbul

Istanbul, Turkey, conjures to mind far-off days of Constantinople and historic works of architecture, from stone masonry homes ot ornate mosques, but there is a colorful variety to the city's ...

Wave Forms for Artists & Artisans: Free Vintage Design Guide to Japanese Waves

In Japan, an island nation, waves are symbols long found in a vast array of art, design and craft from around the country, which one author decided to systemize in a three-book series now ...

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