Abandoned Tunnel Used for Secret Race Car Testing
Locals in the area of Donegal, Pennsylvania would often scratch their heads at the reverberating sounds of roaring car engines and squealing tires seeming to come from beneath a nearby mountain ...
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.Virtual Retail Stores Repurpose Unused Public Spaces
Photos of products with codes that can be scanned by smart phones transform cramped spaces like the walls of subway stations into virtual retail stores, saving space and potentially adding ...
Bottle & Sell It: 14 Designer Bottles that Break the Mold
Most companies are primarily concerned with price when it comes to beverage and liquid product packaging, but what if designers were given free reign to tweak the standard designs so they're more ...
Livable Billboard Offers Artists a Temporary Home
Artists are taking over billboards all over the world, subverting their messages or dedicating them to fun and meaningful art installations instead of advertisements. But the Scribe Billboard ...
Hidden in History: 7 Top-Secret Architectural World Wonders
Bunkers under luxury hotels, wartime factories hidden beneath fake neighborhoods and vast systems of intricately decorated tunnels just beyond humble houses are among the many incredible ...
Heat-Sensitive Business Cards Take On Temporary Images
Many of the people who end up with your business cards will use them to jot down notes or grocery lists, but this creative twist on the conventional lets them leave their mark in a much more fun ...
Sleeping Around: Pop-Up Hotel in a Shipping Container
Do you want to spend a night on a river bank, a cliff, a meadow or a busy urban street? The 'Sleeping Around' pop-up hotel concept can go virtually anywhere you like, setting up quickly in ...
Performance Architecture: 10 Dramatic Opera Sets & Stages
Magnificent, surreal stages rise from the depths of Austria's Lake Constance, rotating, glowing, rising and falling in time with the plots of famed operas, plays and musicals. Unparalleled in ...
Lawless Metropolis: Life in Kowloon Walled City, Then & Now
Twenty years ago, a dank, lawless, congested and compacted city located just outside Hong Kong was evacuated and destroyed, putting an end to the nearly century-old settlement first created as a ...
7 Destroyed Architectural Wonders of the Modern World
We hear so much about the vanished wonders of the ancient architectural world, it's easy to forget about those of our more recent history, from the 19th century to the present. These train ...
