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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.

Architecture as the Phoenix: 13 Modern Structures Borne from Rot and Ruin

There's something really special about an architectural restoration project that takes the ruins of an old historic structure and visibly preserves them by integrating them into a more modern ...

Hostile Urbanism: 22 Intentionally Inhospitable Examples of Defensive Design

It’s not just you - that bench in your city is designed to be uncomfortable on purpose. Armed with a loose definition of what it means to ‘loiter,’ intentionally hostile and sometimes ...

Cellograffiti: Street Art Moves from Cities into the Woods on Plastic Wrap

Street art leaves the city and goes out into the woods in search of a new context without defacing nature thanks to a few massive rolls of clear engineering film. With Moscow-based artist Evgeny ...

Miniature Calendar Photo Project: Tiny Scenes for Each Day of the Year

No object is too ordinary or random to end up being used as a stand-in for a full-scale building, boat, landscape or prop in art director and photographer Tatsuya Tanaka’s imaginative miniature ...

Modern Elder Care: 15 Architectural & Tech Solutions for Aging Communities

With millions of discerning Baby Boomers approaching elderhood, the need for a variety of personalized approaches to senior care is more pressing than ever. Let’s be real - none of us really ...

Tikku: Three-Story Minimalist Micro Apartment Fits in a Single Parking Space

Proponents of our supposed driverless car-sharing future say the system could lead to a dramatic drop in the number of vehicles in our cities, so does that mean we’ll be able to fill our sudden ...

High-Design Pie: Complex Edible Works of Art You’d Actually Want to Eat

Instagram might have made it famous, but the fine art of crafting a delicious pie so intricate you’re almost loathe to cut into its crust is much older than the modern ‘food art’ trend. ...

Rollercoaster Railway: World’s Steepest Funicular Zooms Through the Swiss Snow

What if the entire journey on a rollercoaster consisted solely of the part where you’re slowly inching your way to a peak, holding your breath, waiting for the drop and speed that never comes? As ...

Sunken City of Sin: Submerged Ruins of a Roman Playground for the Rich

Hidden at the bottom of Gulf of Naples in Italy for 1,700 years, the ancient Roman city of Baiae has been revealed to the world after divers were permitted to explore and photograph the site. ...

Stairs to Nowhere: 25 Architectural Relics That No Longer Make Sense

Useless, defunct and more than a little surreal, 'thomassons' are the remnants of architecture and infrastructure left behind during demolition to leave behind a ghostly imprint of the past. ...

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