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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.

Iconic: Animated Pop-Art Graphics of Bowie, Darth Vader and Daft Punk

Architecturally inspired animated 3D scenes pay tribute to David Bowie, Darth Vader and Daft Punk in a striking new series by Vincent Viriot. The direction and motion designer created the ...

Sunken Periscope: Europe’s First Underwater Restaurant Opens in Norway

What looks like a post-apocalyptic scene of a building collapsing into the sea is actually Europe's first underwater restaurant, and it's officially open for business. Architecture firm Snøhetta ...

Mausoleum of the Giants: Monumental Sculptures by Street Artist Phlegm

Enormous creatures crouch in a historic building in Sheffield, England, as street artist Phlegm brings the signature style he developed through years of illustrating black and white comics into ...

Chambers of Secrets: Miniature 3D Models of Harry Potter Architecture

Sets and scenes from the Harry Potter series are reimagined as miniature cardboard models by architecture students from the Melbourne School of Design. Created as part of a summer intensive ...

3D-Printed Sushi Nutritionally Customized Based on Diner’s Biodata

Not many sushis restaurants ask their patrons to provide urine and saliva samples upon entrance, but in our era of hyper-personalization, maybe we shouldn't be surprised. From the Japanese ...

Desire Paths: When Design and the Needs of Users Diverge

These days, "user experience" tends to refer more to the digital realm than our physical environment, but it's no less relevant to roads and sidewalks than to websites and software. When creating ...

Abandoned Apartments Transform Into a Vertical Urban Food Court in Vietnam

It’s not often that you can choose from dozens of cafes situated high above a crowded urban plaza, gazing out at the landscape from a table on the balcony, all for the price of a coffee. In Ho ...

Root Bench: Public Furniture Stretches Out in an Organic Growth Pattern

Sprawling out in a radial growth pattern, a bench in Korea seems to grow organically, stretching and stretching to fill a lawn in a public park. Designed by Yong Ju Lee for the Hangang Art ...

From Lobster & Live Music to the Cattle Car: The Evolution of Air Travel

From the wicker chairs of the 1920s, the evolution of airplane seats has rapidly diverged in two different directions — toward luxurious full-sized beds on first class international flights ...

Lego My VW: Retro Camper Made of 400,000 Plastic Toy Bricks

Is there anything that can’t be convincingly reproduced to scale with LEGOs? Enthusiasts of these plastic toy bricks are constantly taking their creations to the next level, and full-scale (and ...

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