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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.

Street Tree Pods: A Creative Proposal to Add More Housing to London

Like urban treehouses, each of these “street tree pods” rises from a parking space to nestle within the branches of a tree, providing compact, low-cost living space for people in need of ...

Stonehenge Secrets? MIT’s 25-Ton Boulders Can Be Moved By Hand

Enormous monolithic structures weighing as much as 25 tons are tilted, rotated and wiggled across a room by a single person in a new experiment by researchers at MIT, giving us a look into how ...

Secret of the Great Pyramid: A New Optical Illusion at the Louvre by JR

For a few precious hours outside the Louvre, the ground around the iconic Pyramid appeared to be in the process of excavation, revealing a hidden portion of the structure. Rendered on paper in ...

R2D2 Makeover: Star Wars-Themed Space Observatory in Germany

In its original blank state, an observatory in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany was practically begging for a Star Wars-themed paint job. It was already the perfect shape for its transformation into ...

Iconic: Animated Pop-Art Graphics of Bowie, Darth Vader and Daft Punk

Architecturally inspired animated 3D scenes pay tribute to David Bowie, Darth Vader and Daft Punk in a striking new series by Vincent Viriot. The direction and motion designer created the ...

Mausoleum of the Giants: Monumental Sculptures by Street Artist Phlegm

Enormous creatures crouch in a historic building in Sheffield, England, as street artist Phlegm brings the signature style he developed through years of illustrating black and white comics into ...

Chambers of Secrets: Miniature 3D Models of Harry Potter Architecture

Sets and scenes from the Harry Potter series are reimagined as miniature cardboard models by architecture students from the Melbourne School of Design. Created as part of a summer intensive ...

Lego My VW: Retro Camper Made of 400,000 Plastic Toy Bricks

Is there anything that can’t be convincingly reproduced to scale with LEGOs? Enthusiasts of these plastic toy bricks are constantly taking their creations to the next level, and full-scale (and ...

Character Type: 3D Typographic Skate Obstacles in Rotterdam

Get a little too artsy with skate obstacles and you might end up with objects that just aren't all that fun or functional for their intended purpose. But when Rotterdam design studio Opperclaes ...

Atomic Alchemy: Photographs of Nuclear Landscapes in the American West

There's a quiet sense of foreboding permeating this series of black and white photos of old uranium mining towns and nuclear test sites throughout the West, captured by Australian-American ...

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