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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

Sky Slide: L.A. Tower Adds Exterior Glass Chute 1,000 Feet Up

A new amusement offering on the 70th floor of the highest skyscraper on the West Coast is stepping up the game, going beyond glass viewing platforms, swimming pools and bridges to boast a ...

Virtual Heist: 2 Artists Secretly 3D-Scan an Ancient Artifact

An usually high-tech form of pseudo-theft, executed by a pair of artists, has resulted in a high-resolution scan of the famous Queen Nefertiti statue at the heart of a dispute between Germany ...

Mosaic Murals: Tile Patterns Spray-Painted in Deserted Spaces

A puzzle of layers rather than pieces, each of this spray-painted works takes aesthetic cues from historic Barcelona, deploying them in novel contexts using unexpected ...

Oil-Painted Van Gogh Film Features 12 Paintings Per Second

It took over 100 artists to paint this full-length movie, the first of its kind: a work where every frame was hand-painted, then combined into an epic animation about, in the style and using the ...

Modular Skyline: Pixelated Skyscraper Takes Shape in Bangkok

A joint project of Büro Ole Scheeren and the Office for Metropolitan Architecture, this skyscraper nearing completion in Bangkok, Thailand, features shifted box elements that break up its ...

First “Drawn in Place” Architecture Made with a 3D-Printing Pen

A group of students from the University of Tokyo have created the world's first work of 3D pen-drawn architecture, extruding thermoplastic filament to generate a structurally-stable arch ...

Lightweight & Portable Egg-Shaped Drone Folds Up Into Shell

Boasting practical portability with an eye to aesthetics, the new PowerEgg stands out against its more ungainly competitors, able to fold up into a smooth oval when not in ...

Using Bullet Holes in Beirut’s Brutalist ‘Egg’ as Camera Obscuras

An abandoned concrete building in the heart of Beirut, Lebanon (known as The Egg) has been everything from a movie theater to a bomb shelter to a water tank, but this intervention would fill the ...

Underline: 10-Mile Park to Trace Path of Elevated Rail in Miami

Following in the footsteps of the High Line (and Low Line) of New York City, the Underline project aims to take the underutilized space below Miami's elevated MetroRail and transform it into a ...

Air Bonsai: Magnetic Levitation Kit Lets You Float Little Trees

Taking bonsai approaches to the next level, a Japanese company based out of Kyushu has raised over half a million dollars so far for its levitating (and rotating) tree system. The fauna ...

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