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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.

Unearthly Architecture: 13 Structures That Look Like Aliens Built Them

Pluck these structures out of their environments and photoshop them onto a Martian landscape and you’d never know they're real, physical buildings interplaying with ordinary scenery in cities ...

Go Cuckoo for These Brutalist ‘Block Clocks’ Inspired by Concrete Landmarks

Taking inspiration from La Flaine Hotel by Marcel Breuer and the Glenkerry House in London by Erno Goldfinger, these 'Cuckoo Blocks' by artist Guido Zimmermann use iconic Brutalist architecture ...

Summer Houses: 7 Tropical Dream Dwellings by Wallflower Architecture & Design

Based in Singapore, Wallflower Architecture + Design creates ultimate tropical dream homes for a steamy rainforest climate, each one laid out for optimal air flow, natural cooling and views of ...

Luxembourg Skatepark Design Pays Tribute to an Adjacent UNESCO Fortress

Surely a contender for the title of 'World's Most Beautiful Skatepark,' this stunning urban park project by Constructo Skatepark Architecture incorporates design elements abstracted from an ...

Augmented Nature: 6 Ways Robotics Are Aiding Conservation Efforts

Does the idea of deploying robotic plants and animals in natural habitats to help save threatened species and reduce pollution make you feel better or worse about the state of the world? On the ...

Pickup Truck Gardens: Japanese Contest Celebrates Mobile Greenery

Set within the beds of small white Japanese pickup trucks known as 'kei,' these gardens are so lush and complex, they look like they've been established for many years. In reality, each one had ...

World’s Most Colorful Neighborhoods: 11 Bright Spots in Urban Landscapes

Cities around the world are feeling increasingly homogenous and gray, so it's nice to know there are still colorful locales where you can stumble along a hidden cobblestoned alley and take in a ...

Rainbow Road: Light Painting Blazes a Trail Through Forests, Cities & the Sea

Surreal and at times a bit eerie, a rainbow road made of pure light winds through muted landscapes as if illuminating a path to another world. As it makes its way through snowy forests, across ...

Innovation & Collaboration: 13 Cool Office Designs Spark Creativity

Wouldn't you rather work in a lush jungle, a surrealist space that transforms before your eyes, a space that looks like the set of a sci-fi movie or an office with a speakeasy hidden under the ...

Tales of Hidden Tunnels: Read About the Secrets of Underground Spaces

In centuries past, people would dig tunnels for all sorts of purposes - escaping war, transporting bootleg goods, running other kinds of illegal operations, secretly expanding their homes under the ...

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