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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.

Reflections: China’s Lost Lakes Resurface in Urban Beijing

As China has transformed from a largely agricultural society to an industrial superpower, vastly changing its landscape with both construction equipment and the unintended effects of climate ...

Contemporary House Inserted into Crumbling Castle Ruins

A ruined 12th-century castle serves as a stunning historic shell for a contemporary residence in a renovation by Witherford Watson Mann architects. The medieval Astley Castle has been in ruins ...

Mansions to Mines: 7 Abandoned Wonders of Modern Africa

Ranging from eerie, remote desert settlements in the hottest place on earth to perfectly pastel modern ghost towns, Africa's standout abandonments are as diverse and fascinating as the continent ...

Secret Museum Hidden in an Abandoned Freight Elevator

Unlike all of New York City's flashy and well-known museums, this particular exhibition space is grungy, quirky and easy to miss. Located in an abandoned freight elevator on the edge of the ...

Steps to Saving Space: 15 Compact Stair Designs for Lofts

Alternating treads, ultra-narrow ladders, built-in storage and other tricks enable these 15 smart space-saving designs to fit into the smallest of apartments. Offering access to sleeping lofts, ...

Suburban Intervention: Homes Altered, Then Set Ablaze

For the last two years, artist Ian Strange has traveled the East Coast of the United States, painting suburban homes in shocking shades of red and black, and in some cases, burning them down. The ...

City Evolution: Watch Urban Growth in 3D Visualizations

Watch Manhattan multiply and San Francisco soar into the sky in a series of growth animation videos that show the expansion of cities over more than a century. Created by Calgary-based real ...

Cradle to Graveyard: 7 Abandoned Wonders of the Middle East

Eerie ghost towns, villages abandoned after shocking massacres, the palaces of deposed dictators and mansions so well preserved they're like 1950s time capsules are among the Middle East's ...

3B Printing: Bees Create Bottle for Dewar’s Whiskey

This '3D-printed' bottle wasn't made by a machine, unless you consider an army of industrious honeybees a machine. For a new Dewar's Whiskey campaign, 80,000 highlander honey bees producing the ...

Urban Apps: 13 Interactive City Maps, Tools & Guides

Chances are, even if you're a lifelong resident of a particular city, you don't know every nook and cranny, every food truck location, or the lore of every interesting local building. Apps for ...

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