Step On It: Life-Size LEGO Teardrop Trailer Travels Well
A plastic fantastic, life-size LEGO teardrop trailer made from over 200,000 assorted LEGO bricks boasts electric power, running water and a fold-up bed. Given enough LEGO bricks, plenty of ...
Category: Art
Urban art is at the heart of WebUrbanist – the drawings, images, photos and sculptures that inspire us in part because they are open to the public. From installation artworks to street graffiti and everything in between, here is our extensive collection of urban street art gathered from around the world and representing both traditional techniques and innovative approaches by old and new street artists alike.
Out of Focus: Blurred Street Scenes Capture Cities as Cinematic Moments
Like stills from some rainy noir film, these paintings are deceptively realistic in part due to their abstraction -- unresolved details look like a trick of the lens rather than the work of a ...
Ephemeral Figures Loom Large in Biodegradable Land Art by Saype
Most graffiti artists never get the chance to paint a human figure measuring a staggering 100,000 square feet, but most of them aren’t working directly on massive mountainsides, either. Swiss ...
Honeymoon Cruiser: A Bizarre Russian Wedding Coach
This 'Exclusive Limo' based on Chrysler's late and unlamented PT Cruiser was designed to transport Russian about-to-be-weds in, er, style. You had one job, wedding coach designer... and ...
Distorted Shapes Made of Tape: Mesmerizing Installations by Darel Carey
Step into one of Darel Carey's art installations and you'll quickly lose your sense of the room's actual dimensions, your confused eyes tripping over illusions of ridges and voids that aren’t ...
Reframing Modernism: Famously Severe Homes Softened by Lush Landscapes
The site and setting of Modernist masterpieces is a key ingredient of their aesthetic, so what, wondered one architect, would happen if these famous buildings were repositioned, set instead in ...
The Nature of Cities: Built Environments Win National Geographic Awards
Among the winners and honorable mentions from the 2018 Travel Photographer of the Year Contest are an expected array of wilderness scenes and animal portraits, but also a surprising number ...
A Real Hole in the Wall: World’s Tiniest Office for Brazil’s Agencia Grande
What began as a random hole in a São Paulo wall is now the world’s tiniest office, complete with miniature books, laptops, paperwork and design tools. Emerging creative agency Agencia Grande ...
Pigeon Portraiture: Photographer Highlights Beauty of Everyday Urban Bird
An oft overlooked wonder of the urban wilderness, the common pigeon is much more than it appears, with a rich history of aristocratic breeding dating back centuries. Photographer and ...
Ghostly, Plant-Filled Abandoned Houses in Tehran Symbolize Toll of War
A series of abandoned houses in Iran’s capital city overflow with vegetation in varying states of vitality and decay, making them feel untamed, out of control and perhaps impossible to save. In ...
