Prism Break: China’s Eye-Soothing Rainbow Road Tunnel
A 1,000-foot long rainbow underpass in Zhengzhou, China is designed to help drivers' eyes adjust from daylight to a artificial lighting and back again. ...
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.
Cool as Ice: 10 Years of Artist-Made Shanties on Frozen Lakes
Over the past decade, over 1,000 artists and 60,000 visitors have taken part in this incredible seasonal arts event, coming together to create an annual temporary community-on-ice in one of the ...
Celestial Cityscapes: Photographing Dubai from Above the Fog
Home to the tallest building in the world, Dubai is a city rich in skyscrapers that seem almost otherworldly when seen piercing through seasonal layers of urban fog. Photographer ...
Wearable Cities: 15 Urban-Patterned Outfits & Accessories
Wear your love for your city on your sleeve - and your t-shirt, tote bag, necklace, cuff bracelet and bandanna. Aerial maps, transit maps, city skylines, notable architecture and even the ...
Dreamscapes: Handmade Fantasy Environments by JeeYoung Lee
One tiny 3-by-6-meter space has had dozens of different dreamlike incarnations as hand-crafted fantasy settings by Korean artist JeeYoung Lee. At times, it takes months for JeeYoung to transform ...
That’s No Moon: Artists Launch Huge Human Head Balloon
A bizarre art installation based on a dream saw a 50-ft tall balloon become a bizarre “Man In The Moon” as it rose above the streets of Utsunomiya, Japan. ...
Beware of Colour: Activists Highlight Decay with Pink Paint
Splashed with bright buckets of paint from roofs and windows, the colorfully defaced buildings of downtown Johannesburg have evoked different reactions from supports and detractors who variously ...
10 Vintage London Paintings Superimposed on Street View Images
Blending fiction and reality, art and history, this series of superimpositions takes 'then-and-now' imagery all the back to the 18th Century on the streets and rivers of England's capital city. ...
Art in Abandoned Places: 15 Unexpected Urban Installations
Translucent jellyfish put on a serene display in the window of a derelict shop, ghostly images of long-dead patients seem to haunt a disused hospital and surreal oversized spider webs appear in ...
Flowerworks: Pictures Capture Plants Exploding Like Fireworks
A novel take on a New Year's staple, crafty photography and flower power, these bright botanical arrangements (set against dark night-like) backgrounds seem to burst in ...
