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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.

Wild Wood: 28 Temporarily Tamed Tree-Based Designs Branch Out

Trees seem to temporarily allow humans to form them into a new shape and give them a different purpose before reclaiming their wild nature and going on with their tree-business in these wild wood ...

These Brutalist Sand Castles Might Be Cooler Than the Real Thing

Brutalist architecture is often criticized for seeming cold, impersonal and out of human scale, but the same can’t be said for these structures when they’re miniaturized and ephemeral, ...

21st Century Figurative Sculpture: 33 Modern Renderings of the Human Form

Michelangelo's David may always represent a pinnacle of artistic achievement in figurative sculpture, but modern artists are adding some brilliant 21st-century elements to the mix in the form of ...

The Big Bend: U-Shaped ‘World’s Longest Skyscraper’ is Intentionally Absurd

There’s lots of competition for the title of world’s tallest skyscraper, but does anyone care about the world’s longest - even when it extends vertically into an upside-down U shape? If you ...

World’s Sexiest Parking Garage Has a New Competitor For the Crown

It may not be as jaw-dropping and awe-inspiring as Detroit’s decaying Michigan Theater parking garage, nor quite as multifunctional as the stunning Herzog de Meuron structure at 1111 Lincoln ...

Play On, LEGO Layer: 14 Complex & Creative Toy Brick-Inspired Projects

Play on, LEGO brick layer, 'cause the projects adults are coming up with using these little plastic toy bricks are totally incredible. Some amazing recent creations either made from or inspired ...

Abandoned Tobacco Factory Gets an Acid-Toned Makeover & New Purpose

An abandoned, dark and dilapidated tobacco factory is ‘activated’ as a public meeting place to talk about revitalizing unused spaces through a cheerfully haphazard application of vivid, ...

Just Pull Some Strings: 8 Easy Transforming Furniture Designs for Lazy People

When you’re lazy, even the most intuitive transforming furniture isn’t easy enough to operate unless it’s on the same level as clapping your lights on and off. Luckily for those of us who ...

Hovering Tiny Black House Haunts the Woods Under a Railway Bridge

Looking like something out of a creepy fairytale, this little black house hovers in the air beneath the arch of an old railway bridge, a spindly ladder reaching down into the fallen leaves. If ...

LEGO-Compatible Tape Lets You Build Gravity-Defying Inception-Style Models

Are plain old LEGO bricks gonna be ruined for you forever now that you’ve seen this flexible, cuttable, reusable LEGO-compatible adhesive tape? ‘Nimuno Loops’ is a crowdfunded creation that ...

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