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Author: SA Rogers

S.A. Rogers is a veteran print and web author covering architecture, design, art and more. With years of experience writing for WebUrbanist, hers is one of the core voices that defines the site. She has an uncanny knack for discovering and sharing hidden built environments, including abandoned places, world wonders, monumental mysteries and other urban secrets, some of which are hidden in plain sight.

Best of the Year: 10 Projects Honored at World Architecture Festival 2018

When you’re judging thousands of architectural projects from all around the world, even the process of narrowing down the shortlist to 535 has got to be hard. This year, the World Architectural ...

Pinecone Treehouse: Naturally Shaped Wonder in the California Redwoods

An enormous glittering inhabitable pine cone dangling from the majestic redwoods in Alameda, California could be transplanted to your very own backyard. Built by Dustin Fieder of O2 Treehouse, ...

Subterranean Seashore Museum Buries Art Beneath the Dunes in China

Like the chambers of a seashell eroded over time by sand and water, the white hollows of this subterranean museum offer a series of organically shaped spaces tucked beneath the dunes. The UCCA ...

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 ...

Found Victorian Photographs Transformed into Pop Culture Trading Cards

Victorian-era photographic subjects are transformed in ways they couldn’t possibly have imagined in a series of modified cabinet cards by artist Alex Gross. A buttoned-up young woman becomes ...

The Other Place: Surreal MC Escher-Inspired Hotel Interior in China

A maze of staircases leads absolutely nowhere within a series of new hotel rooms at 'The Other Place' in China, nodding to artist MC Escher’s famous lithograph print entitled 'Relativity.' ...

When Infrastructure Costs More Than Money: History’s Deadliest Projects

Construction is a deadly industry. Falls, electrocution, blunt force trauma and mishaps with heavy machinery are just a few of the hazards workers face on project sites around the world, whether ...

Large-Scale Light Art Comes to Life in Amsterdam for Annual Festival

Every winter, visitors and residents alike get to see Amsterdam in a whole new light - literally - as large-scale light art installations add an extra layer of vibrance to the city. For the ...

Daring Glass Observation Deck Opens Atop 77-Story Tower in Bangkok

Over 1,000 feet above the streets of Bangkok, thrill-seeking tourists creep out onto the glass floor of an observation deck at the top of a futuristic-looking tower. The new observatory is the ...

From Pompeii to Gaza: The History of Street Art as a Voice for the People

Over the past half-century, street art has evolved from squiggled lettering on subway cars to a cultural force practiced in virtually every corner of the globe. It began unsanctioned and ...

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