Bone Flowers: Sculptures Made of Rodent Skeletons
A white sculpture of a dandelion becomes infinitely more interesting the closer you look, as you begin to pick out the tiniest of paws, vertebrae and tufts of fur. Petals are made up of rib ...
Author: SA Rogers
S.A. Rogers is a veteran print and web author covering architecture, design, art and more. With years of experience writing for WebUrbanist, hers is one of the core voices that defines the site. She has an uncanny knack for discovering and sharing hidden built environments, including abandoned places, world wonders, monumental mysteries and other urban secrets, some of which are hidden in plain sight.Walking Shelter: Sneakers Expand Into Human-Frame Tent
The next time you need a portable shelter, you could just pull it out of your sneakers and expand it into a tent using your own body as a frame. The Walking Shelter packs a lightweight nylon tent ...
Add-On Gadgets: 15 Cool Devices For Your Smart Phone
As smart phones become even more integral to our everyday lives, extra gadgets that increase their functionality just get cooler and cooler. These 15 add-ons for iPhone and Android handsets ...
Abandoned Bridge Amphitheater Reclaims Urban Space
An abandoned, deteriorating bridge in the city of Kosice in Slovakia has been rehabbed and modified to serve as an amphitheater and public gathering space that glows in bright rainbow colors at ...
Dental Nightmare: 17 Truly Terrifying Tooth-Related Objects
As if going to the dentist wasn't scary enough already, you can now augment your odontophobia with a series of nightmare-inducing dental training devices, antique drills and tooth-related ...
Crawling Cities: 3D-Printed Shells for Hermit Crabs
Hermit crabs carry crystal-clear cityscapes on their backs, thanks to a series of 3D-printed shells by Aki Inomata. The artist scans the insides of hermit crab shells to ensure a perfect fit, and ...
Learn Modern Architecture Principles with New LEGO Kit
If you've always wanted to design modern buildings, but don't have any plans to attend architecture school, LEGO has just the tool you're looking for. The toy company has revealed a LEGO ...
Desolate Desertions: 7 Abandoned Wonders of Antarctica
At the end of the earth, in some of the most remote places known to man, the remains of ill-advised human exploration and activity can be found in the form of rusting equipment, buildings almost ...
Painted Shadows: Dark Art Haunts Deserted Psychiatric Hospital
Eerie shadows float out of empty wheelchairs, trailing up cracked and peeling walls and slinking under doorways in a series of paintings in an abandoned mental hospital by Brazilian artist ...
Small Space Design: 15 Fold-Up, All-In-One Bathrooms
Making the most of limited living space requires modular solutions that can be moved around and altered at will, and that includes bathroom fixtures. Smart, compact modular or all-in-one bathroom ...
