Radical Rings: 31 One-of-a-Kind Ring Designs & Ideas
High-tech, brilliant and just plain bizarre, these 31 rings aren't exactly your standard precious gemstone set in a valuable metal band. Sterilized human teeth, living plants, replicas of food ...
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.Not Just Jail: 12 Modern, Futuristic & Fascinating Prisons
Should architecture be used as a punishment in itself, made as harsh and cruel as possible in a bid to make inmates sorry for what they've done, or should it uplift and rehabilitate them, showing ...
Horror Prisons: Top 13 Most Terrifying Fictional Facilities
How would you like to be jailed underground on a planet where the surface is too scalding hot to touch, or locked up in an asylum with the most depraved of criminals, where the corrupt guards are ...
Past as Prologue? How Today Looked 100 Years Ago
Architects working with robots, firefighters equipped with artificial wings, electric learning machines and airships for everyone: this is the year 2000 - as imagined in 1910 - and it's a vision ...
13 Energizing Batteries: Mini Nukes to Hand Cranks
The batteries we use in dozens of gadgets every day have stayed more or less the same for many years, but that doesn't mean designers aren't dreaming up innovative and sometimes perplexing new ...
Blow-Up Buildings: 17 Inflatable Works of Mobile Architecture
Ephemeral, often amorphous inflatable structures eschew the nature of human habitation, occupying a space only temporarily and making few promises about protection from the elements. Altering ...
Mechanical Animals: 36 Steampunk Sculptures & Robots
Bones and metal parts are fused together to create the skeletons of bizarre bionic animals straight out of science fiction. Beetles' wings are spread to reveal complex arrangements of gears. ...
Disorienting Pop-Up Shop Multiplies with Mirrors & Lights
Step inside the Zuo Corp. pop-up shop in Warsaw and you'll feel as if you've just been transported to a different space altogether. Designed by Polish architects Super Super and Inside/Outside, ...
Dark & Dramatic Design: 16 Bold Black Room Interiors
Black is dark and depressing, morbid and gothic - or is it? The impact of large expanses of black in interior design can be surprisingly fresh, and just as dramatic as you'd expect. These 16 ...
Reading Revolution: 14 Marvelous Modern Urban Libraries
The jaw-dropping intricacy of the libraries of old, with their leaded glass windows and tiers of dark wood shelves, is being replaced in favor of clean lines, open spaces and a focus on new ...
