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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.

Moving Miniature: Tiny Landscape Made of Sugar, Spices, Salt & Sand

Nothing about the hazy sunlight, languid motion of a tire swing, branches blowing in the breeze or puffy white steam pouring out of a factory chimney gives you any idea that the scene you’re ...

Conductive Design: 10 Objects Transformed Into Touch Pads & Circuits

Conductive paint, ink and thread can be drawn, woven or even tattooed into objects like denim jackets, carpeting and leather iPad cases to make them into electrical circuits, adding a new layer ...

Risk-Taking Russian Rooftopper: Woman Takes Terrifying Skyscraper Selfies

If you’re afraid of heights, a mere glance at these photos taken by Russian daredevil photographer Angela Nikolau might be enough to give you the heebie-jeebies. The 23-year-old scales some of ...

Art Sinks to New Depths: 25 Wet Works of Sub-Aquatic Sculpture

Temporarily submerged in a swimming pool for snorkelers to explore or permanently sunken into the sea as a diving destination, these subaquatic works of art take on a whole new dimension under ...

The Human Footprint: Aerial Photos Show How Industry Changes the Land

The toll exacted from the earth for human progress is rarely more dramatically visible than from overhead, looking down onto the mines, oil fields, salt flats, recycling yards and other ...

Stacked: Cleverly Designed Chinese Hotel Gives Everyone a Unique View

Despite sharing a tiny footprint of land with other guests at this Chinese hotel, you can practically forget anyone else exists altogether thanks to a clever stacked arrangement that points each ...

Off the Rails: 12 Artistic Interventions of Train Cars & Rail Yards

As railway systems decay in the United States and flourish elsewhere in the world, works of art pop up in train cars and along disused tracks, paying tribute to the journey of a transportation ...

Church of Cannabis: Sanctuary Painted in Hypercolor by Okuda San Miguel

On 4/20/17, the International Church of Cannabis opened in Denver, offering a new community center and sanctuary for marijuana enthusiasts with nearly every surface hand-painted in vivid colors ...

Art of Typography: 13 Text-Based Designs Spell It All Out

The language of letters themselves is revealed when we look at their shapes as artistic forms and experiment with the materials we use to create them, whether using them as the basis of furniture ...

RotterZwam: Abandoned Water Park Turned Indoor Mushroom Farm

Bags of old coffee grounds hang in the dank dressing rooms of an abandoned Rotterdam water park, growing oyster mushrooms. Two men turned the former Tropicana space, an old teen hangout, into the ...

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