Puphaus & Meyou: 2 Designer Dog & Cat Houses for Modern Pets
Whether your furry friends are canine or feline, this pair of posh pet architecture companies have your Modernist domesticated animal needs (quite literally) covered. And for those ...
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 @KurtKohlstedtSubway Angels: Painted Figures Spliced into Contemporary Cities
Gods, angels, cherubs and human mortals from famous historical artworks can be found browsing the beverage display at the corner store, passed out in front of the liquor shop, or riding the bus ...
Muji Huts: 3 Minimalist Prefab Dwellings Starting at $25,000
Three designers contributing to the Muji Hut project have pitched their tent-, cottage- and cabin-inspired ideas for tiny retreats at Tokyo Design Week, each structure borrowing lessons in ...
Story Dispensers: Street Printers Vend Free Short Stories
If your mobile device runs out of batteries on the streets of Grenoble, simply find one of these machines, specify a desired duration, and receive a free printed short story to read in a park or ...
Magnetic Notebook: Add, Remove & Reorganize All Kinds of Pages
Like a combination classic journal and digital text file, this physical notebook has a magnetic spine that allows you to pull out pages without ripping and add in fresh blank, lined or graph ...
Liquid Stop Sign: Emergency Laser Projection on Sheet of Water
Serving as a bright and bold last-chance warning for vehicles about to enter tunnels, this wall of water painted turns into a kind of hovering hologram designed to STOP impending drivers from ...
Fortified Farms: In the Svanti Mountains Every Home is a Castle
Facing threats from all sides, the Svans of Georgia became highland gatekeepers of their mountain passes, each distributed dwelling turned into a individually defensible ...
Got Your Goat: Portable Drinking Horn Coffee Mug is Good to Go
Its shape inspired by goats, the creatures that helped humans discovered coffee, this modern-day drinking horn is curved to make drinking easier and capped to let you take your java on the ...
Sunken Ruins of Alexandria to be World’s First Underwater Museum
The Ministry of Antiquities in Egypt is planning to turn submerged ruins of ancient Alexandria into an underwater museum, allowing tourists access to 2,500 of subsurface stonework dating back ...
New Spin: Rotating & Sliding Walls Turn 1-BR Apartment into 3
A combination of walls on wheels and sliding wall panels make this modular home infinitely adaptable, able to transform from a spacious single-family abode to a series of divisible spaces for ...
