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Hot Pop-Up Shops: 14 Imaginatively Risky Retail Designs
The temporary nature of pop-up shops seems to inspire a bolder, braver, more experimental approach to retail design, encouraging architects to make use of unexpected materials and play with ...
About WebUrbanist
Previously an ongoing publication, WebUrbanist is now a passive archive made up of over 5,000 articles written across 30 categories. Between 2007 and 2020, WU covered urban ...
5 Recycled Buildings Made from Bottles, Cans, Bales & Tires
(Check out our complete collection of 70 Works of Recycled Art and Design.) Have you ever thought of recycling as a creative act? To recycle something doesn't necessarily mean just hauling used ...
Outward Mobility: Clever Campers, Trailers & DIY Mobile Home Conversions
The 20th-century American dream of suburban houses and picket fences unfolded in parallel with another vision: freedom to roam, embodied in camper vans and other mobile housing designs. The ...
Plastic Pollution: Why Manufacturers Need to Take Responsibility
Recycling isn't going to solve our waste problems. Between the contamination that happens when we don’t recycle correctly and the degradation of plastic over time, it’s a band-aid at best, ...
Art of the Chinese Courtyard: Respectful Renovations Keep Hutongs Alive
Building booms around the world can render entire neighborhoods unrecognizable in a matter of days, demolishing historic structures to make way for new developments. In cities like Beijing, where ...
Come Hell or High Water: Cities Must Evolve in the Face of Climate Change
The time to talk about climate change as if it's merely a hazy possibility that won't occur in our lifetime anyway has long passed. Multiple recent reports have made it clear that it’s already ...
Domino Effect: Sweet Playground At Old NYC Sugar Refinery
Sweetwater playground at the former Domino Sugar Refinery in Brooklyn, New York is a colorful children's fun park that's dandy as old-fashioned candy. A park with good taste? It's more ...
Blind Building Facades Become Urban Farms with Scalable Scaffolding System
Blank, windowless exterior walls that get plenty of sun exposure could become vertical farms with the addition of recycled modular scaffolding. A project called GreenBelly aims to make use of ...
