Sans Ads: See Tokyo Scrubbed Clean of Signs & Advertisements
Tokyo seems inseparable from the banners, billboards, logos, slogans and other flashy neon alerts, except when seen through the lens of this French graphic designer in a startling ...
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 @KurtKohlstedtTable for Two: Window as Bridge & Barrier Between Shared Seat
Putting you in the spotlight with a stranger, this installation in New York City is a perhaps-paradoxical commentary on both connection and isolation in urban environments. Located at 7th ...
The Capital: Egypt Plans Largest From-Scratch City in History
Slated to be constructed in just 7 years and cost $300 billion (more than the GDP of Egypt), this ambitious design for a brand new capital city of 5 million people is unprecedented - if ...
Rapid Resin: Liquid 3D Printing Looks Like Morphing T2 Metal
Generating objects 25 to 100 times faster than traditional layer-based 3D printers, this new continuous-liquid approach to high-speed fabrication can create complex yet refined finished objects ...
Altopias: Speculative Art Explores Both Dark & Light Futures
The world of future-focused artwork tends to examine extreme outcomes, but this artist's visions represent a compelling range of possibilities from catastrophic to optimistic, Dystopian to ...
Sunny Disposition: Computer-Aided Skyscraper Casts No Shadow
With downtown densification usually comes a lack of light in surrounding spaces, leading one architecture firm to develop the world's first algorithm-driven strategy to allow a tower to fully ...
Cantilevered Conversion: Sleek Modern Cargo Container Office
While many intermodal freight crate transformations turn steel boxes into comfortable spaces, this project goes a step further both by taking maximum advantage of its material origins while still ...
UP for Auction: Bids Fail to Save World-Famous Holdout House
In the esoteric realm of 'nail houses' - properties whose owners refuse to sell them to developers at any cost - Edith Macefield's may be the most well-known, but her century-old home now appears ...
Megablock Microclimate: Urban Treehouse Apartment Complex
Shrouded in 150 trees that absorb 200,000 liters of carbon dioxide per hour, this massive five-story, block-spanning residential building occupies its own protected ...
Forgotten Heritage: Exploring Europe’s Largest Deserted Places
For the past three years, this bold and big-thinking photographer has located and explored some of the world's most vast abandoned spaces, from power stations and cooling towers to gigantic ...
