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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

Japan-ized Cities: Surrealistic “Worldwide Tokyo-lization Project”

A team of designers has taken iconic images of major global cities and added a "rich graphic language and vibrant visual effects" to blend each one with elements of Japanese infrastructure and ...

World’s First Floating Underwater Tunnels to Span Fjords in Norway

Norway is working to create the world's first "submerged floating bridges," suspended from surface pontoons and engineered to span its vast network of wide and deep fjords. A system of ...

Literal Streetwear: ‘Pirate Printer’ Lifts Patterns from Urban Objects

A Berlin art collective has taken to the streets, inking urban infrastructure and laying down shirts and tote bags to create a line of unique prints ... their patterns directly lifted from ...

Kaleidoscopic Carpet: Interactive Art Projection Unravels in Realtime

A truly magical carpet ride, this immersive project provides a shifting spectrum of colors and shapes that morph in response to user interactions, changing as visitors walk over the ...

Gold Infill: Japanese Pottery Repair Tradition Applied to Concrete

Strands of gold fill the cracks of this apartment in Kyoto, replicating in architecture a longstanding tradition of repairing pottery in a way that tells a true history of its use and ...

Tunnel of Books: Shelves Wrap Curved Bookstore Walls & Ceiling

Paired to fantastic effect, a series of arch-forming shelving units and a black-mirrored floor create a wraparound tunnel in a Chinese bookstore, punctuated by a fracture leading visitors through ...

Artist Socks Series: Wear Pairs of Figures from Famous Paintings

Simple stripes, colors and patterns are all that is visible when you are wearing shoes, but kick them off and you can show off famous figures from classic paintings. They may not be fit for ...

Deconstructed: 25 Famous Floor Plans as Architectural Labyrinths

  The most fundamental blueprint of a building is its floor plan, which organizes the spaces to be occupied, creating a footprint to be extruded into three dimensions. In his ARCHIPLAN ...

Pokédrone Go: Micro-Drone Augments Reach for Pokémon Players

Pokémon Go has hit the ground running, breaking game release records and getting people out of the house and onto city streets. This new drone promises to take the game even further, allowing ...

Dystopian Textile: Beirut Architect Builds Bulletproof Headscarf

Somewhere between disturbing practical and abysmally pessimistic, this gender-neutral, anti-ballistic headscarf draws on a long history of regional fashion traditions but with a depressingly ...

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