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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.

Re-Habit: Transforming Abandoned Big-Box Retailers to Housing for Homeless

With the age of big box stores waning, all those massive abandoned retail facilities could be transformed almost instantly into housing for the homeless using a variety of plug-and-play prefab ...

Human-Sheep Embryos to Lab-Grown Leather: Biotechnology and Animals

Considering that it produces such controversial projects as human-sheep embryos, it's not surprising that biotechnology is often at the center of thorny ethical debates. It’s one of those fuzzy ...

Unseen Movements: Multi-Shot Photography Captures the Complex Trails of Birds

For all the effort we humans put into light art, birds have us beat - we just don’t realize it most of the time, because their work is invisible to us. Spanish photographer Xavi Bou reveals the ...

Cloud-like Circular Staircase Stands at the Center of This Chinese Villa

Floating staircases always make a big impact, but rarely do they actually look like they’re just wisps of clouds spiraling through a living space. Prior to renovation, the three floors of this ...

Glass Houses: The Lure of Transparent Materials in an Era of Waning Privacy

We seem to have reached a new era of human civilization in which people marvel over the lack of privacy to be found in a completely transparent glass house while also revealing every last ...

World’s Tallest Residential Building Planned for New York’s ‘Billionaire’s Row’

A new skyscraper looms over Central Park in Manhattan, towering above all the others, though at its current height of 1,100 feet, it's not even finished. Not only is ‘Central Park Tower’ by ...

Cross-Stitch Murals Bring a Traditionally Domestic Craft Out Into the World

Often viewed as the domain of women within the home, the art of cross-stitch embroidery escapes its boundaries and finds a new footing within the modern world in works by Aheneah, also known as ...

Nomadic Futures: Self-Driving Cars Could Change How We Interact with Cities

"Location, location, location" might be the mantra of the real estate industry, but that mindset could change radically with the advent of autonomous vehicles. It may take a while, but once ...

Fake News: Miniature Signs Around the City Convey Confusing Messages

If all the official signage that can be found around an average city bores you, you might not even notice the ones that are a little bit off, warning you of dangerous pigeons and tiny sinkholes ...

Seven-Story Neoclassical Painting by William Bouguereau Looms Over Memphis

A little girl from William Bouguereau’s 1886 painting 'Au pied de la falaise' looks out over the city of Memphis from the side of a seven-story building, freed from the original work's confines ...

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