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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.

Incarnate: Skull Carved from Outdated Computer Books

Artist Maskull Lasserre specializes in transforming ordinary objects into amazingly intricate, often somewhat unsettling works of art. His most recent work, 'Incarnate (Three Degrees of Certainty ...

MapAttack App Turns Any City into a Virtual Gameboard

Get up out of your chair and into the city streets with gaming that has been brought from the screen into real life. The MapAttack! smartphone app for Android phones and iPhones can turn any ...

Double Vision: 33 Examples of Multiple-Exposure Photography

Sometimes it happens by mistake: you forget to wind the film forward on an analog camera, and capture a new image on top of a previous one. These happy accidents can often have a ghostly, ...

Tying Us Together: Portraits on Hanging Elastic String

Hundreds of printed elastic strings come together to create strange and startlingly realistic portraits of human faces and limbs in this series by Hong Sung Chul. The South Korean artist creates ...

Paper Architecture: Intricate 3D Sculptures by Ingrid Siliakus

From flat sheets of paper, entire cities emerge, rich in unexpected details like balconies, tiny windows and even little people. Dutch artist Ingrid Siliakus uses an initial 90-degree fold to ...

Robots of Brixton: A Short Dystopian Film by Factory Fifteen

Humans have created a vast population of robotic workers to take on the tasks that they no longer want to carry out themselves, resulting in a disenchanted robot underclass that that takes over ...

Manifest Destiny! Parasite Cabin Clings to San Francisco Wall

Jarringly out of place, a tiny, rustic cabin clings to the wall of an urban high-rise in the unlikely location of San Francisco, California. The cabin, which is fitted with a rocking chair and ...

Housing for the Homeless: 14 Smart & Sensitive Solutions

City officials spend a lot of time and energy worrying about how to keep homeless people off public furniture and out of certain common areas, when they should be considering how to better manage ...

Incredible Underwater Landscapes Made with Swirling Ink

Ribbons of color swirl and unfurl in stunning, kinetic formations that call to mind coral and other flora and fauna on the ocean floor. Italian photographer Alberto Seveso drops complimentary ...

Self-Assembly Line: Modular Units form Viral Architecture

This is architectural biomimicry on a whole new level: taking inspiration not from large organisms like trees or animals, but from the molecular structure of a virus module. Designed and ...

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