Bench to Bedroom: Urban Furniture Turned Homeless Shelters
Whereas London and Montreal have installed spikes on the sidewalks to keep homeless people from getting too comfortable, Vancouver offers a kind welcome with benches that transform into ...
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Reflections from Above: Mirrored Skyscraper Illusion Photos
Illuminated cityscapes multiply and divide in unexpected ways when their nighttime reflections hit the mirrored facades of the skyscrapers found within them. Photographer Donna Dotan, known for her ...
Extreme Human Habitats: 7 Unexpected Urban World Wonders
Humans have established settlements in the strangest of places, from the base of an extremely lethal volcano in Japan to a platform of oil rigs built on the remains of seven ships in the Caspian ...
Apartment Arcade: Passersby Play Game Through Window
A large storefront window in a Belgian designer's work/live space invites passersby to pause and play an arcade game with a fun interactive installation. Where others living in such a busy urban ...
Nomadic Urbanism: Futuristic ‘Walking City’ Draws on History
The notion of a mobile city is not new, but in this case, the architect has gone to great lengths to construct a vision that could conceivably be built. So while it may look like fantasy at first ...
Top 40 of the Year: Essential 2013 Article List for Urbanists
As any experienced urbanist can tell you, city life is rarely dull and this year has proven no exception - from traffic-topping articles to staff-picked stories, here are WebUrbanist's must-read ...
Leisure in the Sky: 13 Elevated Railway + Rooftop Parks
In cities where highways and high-rises have taken up virtually every square foot of real estate there is to be had, lush parks, pedestrian walkways and bike paths can be hard to come by. That's ...
Urban Fabric: Stretched, Stitched & Suspended Mobile Home
Imagine rooms that expanded and compressed depending on occupancy, then stretch your mind to conceptualize a whole home that works the same way - it folds virtually flat then unfolds as you move ...
Buildings That Don’t Exist: Fake Facades Hide Infrastructure
From the sidewalk, the Paris building below looks just like those around it, complete with doors, windows and balconies. but take a look at Google Maps, as Paul of the blog Paris by Cellphone ...
Intoxication, Captured: Frantic Head-Spinning Oil Paintings
If you've ever been intoxicated enough to feel as if the world were spinning around you at 100 miles per hour, these oil paintings by Alexandra Pacula will look familiar. But it doesn't take ...
