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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.

Secret Spaces: 12 Architectural Easter Eggs Hidden Under Our Noses

By now, most of us are aware of the abandoned, once-forgotten subway stations and other underground wonders hidden beneath the streets of cities around the world. There are even entire cities ...

Honeycomb Housing for the Homeless: 3D Printed Micro Neighborhoods

With homelessness in many cities reaching its highest levels since the Great Depression, some designers and architects are getting more creative with solutions, like this honeycomb-shaped ...

Forget Mocktails: High-Tech Glass Makes Water Taste Like Anything You Want

If you’re sober, pregnant or otherwise unable or unwilling to consume alcohol, you can still enjoy whatever cocktails you crave with a high-tech drinking glass that simulates three layers of ...

Self-Driving Mobile Living Rooms: 10 Car Concepts for the Next 50 Years

A couple decades from now, we’ll be able to summon autonomous shared vehicles both from our smartphones and from privately owned steering wheels that double as AI companions in the home, ...

It’s On Like Donkey Kong at Berlin’s Mount Mitte Urban Climbing Park

In the words of venerable modern philosopher Ice Cube, ‘it’s on like Donkey Kong’ - literally - at Berlin’s Mount Center climbing park, which features elevated platforms that look an ...

A Standing Ovation for Great Animation: 13 Arresting Works of Art in Motion

There's something about creating art that's not quite reflective of our physical reality and then giving it life through motion that can be alternately beautiful and unnerving. The slight ...

Religious Conversion: Modern Office Inserted Into a Historic Belgium Chapel

A cubic white volume juts out of the exterior wall of a historic church in Belgium, looking a bit like it a dramatic incident of some sort landed it there. But the parasitic appearance of this ...

Not Just Science Fiction: Incredible Futuristic Tianjin Binhai Library by MVRDV

Looking like something out of a Kubrick film, the new Tianjin Binhai Library by MVRDV and local firm TUPDI features cascading floor-to-ceiling bookshelves that double as benches centered around a ...

High Design: 15 Luxury Products for More Glamorous Cannabis Consumption

For better or worse, weed-related products have gone from plastic baggies and ugly psychedelic head shop bongs to designer vaporizers and Goop-worthy botanical extracts. Marijuana is emerging ...

Sheep View: Faroe Islands Captured for Google by Four-Legged Crew

There may be many paths along the remote, windswept Faroe Islands that Google’s street view vehicles can’t traverse, but that’s where the archipelago’s many four-legged residents come in. ...

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