While you put the finishing touches on a lopsided snowman in your front yard, ice and snow artists around the world build life-sized ice castles, hotel rooms made of packed snow, and delicate ice ...
There is no witty wordplay nor shocking truth in our title today, but that is quite by design - we simply did not want risk underselling Roman Mars, the maker of a radio show that covers ...
Every article in the WebUrbanist archives falls into exactly one of five main categories and one of five subcategories within each main category. Below you will find all thirty resulting categories, ...
Technology makes our modern lives possible - without it, after all, you wouldn't be reading this right now. But technology can also make our lives better in less tangible ways. These 10 art ...
While billboard advertising can occasionally shock us with totally unexpected visuals, by and large, these massive champions of commercialism are not exactly pretty or interesting. Enter artists ...
What happens when an irresistible force (the Hanshin Expressway) meets an immovable object (stubborn landowners)? You get the Gate Tower Building in Osaka, Japan, a hybrid highway-cum-skyscraper ...
Navigable aqueducts played an important role in getting Great Britain's industrial revolution off the ground. In an age when railroads and commercial highways had yet to be invented, these elevated ...
If life's a game, you're gonna need some bigger playing pieces. When the game's Monopoly, you can count on at least one game geek artist to make your larger-than-life board game anything but ...
Formerly spark plugs of the cold war, dozens of decades-old, decommissioned underground nuclear missile silos are slowly slipping into disrepair and decay. Not all of these relics are destined ...
Antarctica - this huge, frozen continent is bitterly cold, inhospitable as Mars and as far from civilization as any place on the planet. Just getting there has been a struggle; staying there has ...
