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Many designers must content themselves with imagining and drawing things that may never be built -  very few can realize ultramodern home visions in the real world. Like a blast from the future, these ten architects have brought to life incredible houses that most of us could not even dream of - let alone afford.

Ultramodern [...]

Imagine coming home to a house with red streaks and spatter patterns cast across your rugs, chairs or tables - or to find a loved one passed out in a pool of blood. Some of these radical red designs are intended to scare visitors while others are aesthetically engaging even before one realizes the bloody [...]

There are more ways than most people realize to map a flat image onto a sphere - though the results are invariably surreal and often incredible. These five phenomenal photographers take amazing panoramic images and wrap them to create fantastic floating planets from simple scenes. How small is your world?

Wonderfully Elegant Little Worlds by Gadl:

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It is one thing to think about visiting that haunting abandoned building on the edge of town - but it is quite another thing to actually brave not one but hundreds of deserted places like Bart of Urban Travel. Here are 20 factories, mines, castles, churches, [...]

You might find an urban wonder right around the corner - from the narrowest and most windy streets of the world (respectively) to the biggest building moving project and the most profound rich/poor divide on the planet. Someone has even put the world’s largest urban bat colony on the map. Here are seven profoundly strange [...]

A fireplace … that is a box against the wall, connected to a chimney, which gives off smoke and can burn your house down, right? These examples defy that conventional understanding in all kinds of ways - some burn alternative fuels (including water!) while others hang from the ceiling, fit in a car or can [...]

We are surrounded by the built environment day in and day out, but how many buildings still turn your head, make you scratch it or even turn it upside down (your head, not the building … well, not most buildings anyway). Over time we have collected some of the most crazy architectural designs and creative [...]

How many ways can you make a simple wooden bench? More than you may have thought. Some of these emphasize artistic execution over functional stability. Others take ideas of function to the absolute extreme, being designed to seat a specific number in a particular way, to rock, roll, wheel and more. From artful to artisan, [...]

A fireplace is the historical absolute center of any home - the place the supplies light, heat and a focus for family or community even in the darkest and coldest of winter days. From portable suitcase fireplaces and rotating remote-control ones to coffee table, bookcase and other multifunctional designs, here are thirty incredible fireplaces fit [...]

Broadly defined, ‘alternative art’ is by far the most popular subject on WebUrbanist - or at least the one about which we are the most prolific. What do we mean by ‘alternative’ in this case? Well, stuff you will not likely find in museums unless the artists illegally hung them on the walls there (yes, [...]