Narrower Towers: 20 Of Japan’s Thinnest Buildings
When land is expensive or in short supply - or both, as is the case in Japan's major metropolises - smart real estate developers don't get down, they look up. These 20 tall thin Japanese ...
When land is expensive or in short supply - or both, as is the case in Japan's major metropolises - smart real estate developers don't get down, they look up. These 20 tall thin Japanese ...
It's not every day that you come across an absolutely stunning and somewhat disturbing series of photos entitled “Golden Pig and Bitches”. But you never know what you're going to get from ...
One of the sweetest sounds to students is when that last bell in the last class rings to signal school is out for summer. In the words of Alice Cooper, "Out for summer. Out till fall. We might not ...
Sometimes a small rendering or photograph is enough to illustrate the point - but in other cases, size really does matter. By popular demand, WebUrbanist would like to announce an all new section ...
Reflecting their creators’ desire to step far, far away from the sheepish architectural clones that our culture has grown to accept as “normal”, these outstanding structures are among the ...
As colorful as life in the city can be, things aren’t always rosy - especially in gloomy, grimy neighborhoods where everything seems to be hard, cold and monochromatic. But if artist Mark ...
Great art is, by necessity, innovative and adaptable. It breaks rules, defies logic, and twists about in ways that we never saw coming. The photography of Miroslav Tichý takes everything we ...
Sculptures are an important form of public art which have morphed significantly over the centuries. They can be created from almost anything and often include found objects which were not ...
Towers that seem alive, twisting and dancing with each other. An alien-like blob that looks like a UFO after dark. A building that’s literally a blur. All of these and more are homes, hotels, ...
Roof and tunnel hacking began at college campuses, but urban adventurers soon picked up their cameras and the explorers' flag. Urban exploration includes abandoned places high above a city and far ...