Blowing Up: 16 Impressive Inflatable Works of Balloon Art
The clown you hired for your kid’s birthday party probably can’t make balloon iguanas with tiny scales, swirling three-story inflatable sculptures inspired by mythology, or floating ...
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.Fictional Libraries: Images Make Information Inaccessible
All of the books in the world still exist, yet are just out of reach, locked up in an impenetrable fortress or stacked so high we can’t hope to reach them, in this dystopian vision by ...
Paris Safari: Projected Wildlife Gets Chic in the City
Soaring up to six stories in height, these lemurs, deer, gorillas, eagles and other carefully clothed creatures projected onto buildings all over Paris are mocking your fashion choices. The ...
Modern Wooden Architecture: 16 Fresh Takes on Timber
Wood may be most closely associated with cabins, stick-frame housing and other conventional forms of architecture, but a new wave of architects is adapting its usage for this century and beyond, ...
Dark Water: Take a Boat Ride Through a Flooded Museum
In order to take in the new, dimly lit installation at Palais de Tokyo by artist Céleste Boursier-Mougenot, you’ll have to pilot a small boat through dark waters inside the flooded museum. ...
Blurring Boundaries: 14 Modern Houses That Open to the Air
Ceilings retract and glazed walls swing open to connect intimate indoor spaces with courtyards, terraces and gardens in these modern residences blurring the lines between indoors and out. Located ...
Ghost Church: Creepy Statues Invade Abandoned Czech Chapel
If you just happen to stumble upon the dilapidated St. George’s Church in the Czech Republic, passing through the crumbling entrance to glance around at the shadowy interior, you might just be ...
Climbing Cocoon: Ascend a Gallery Atrium Through a Net Tube
Test your climbing skills with a vertical ascent through three stories of a gallery atrium with the newest interactive installation by design collective Numen/For Use. Occupying Austria’s ...
Zenith of Zen: 13 Nontraditional Takes on Japanese Gardens
Broken down to its most basic characteristics, the traditional Japanese zen garden inspires innovative design in everything from toys and candy to the most impossibly relaxing modern bathrooms ...
Rooftop View: World’s Largest Mural Takes Up Entire Building
Spanning the massive multi-building rooftop of a construction company, this black-and-white mural of a lounging girl might just be the largest ever painted. Commissioned by French duo Ella & ...
