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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.

Bikesphere: Car-Detecting Ring of Red Light Puts Cyclists in a Safety Bubble

There’s no missing cyclists - or the zone of space you need to safely pass them - when they’ve got a ring of red light encircling them as they ride down the road. Michelin’s new open-source ...

Optical Illusion Architecture: These 11 Buildings Are Not What They Seem

Pinched, warped, rippled, steeply angled and mirrored until they disappear into the sky, these buildings are not quite what they seem at first glance. Sometimes, it takes a nice long look at ...

Out of Gas: Abandoned Station Will Live its Golden Years as a Venue

A formerly abandoned gas station in London’s White City district may have outlived its usefulness in its original purpose, but it’s got a new, more relaxing job to do in the ‘hereafter.’ ...

Hang Loose: 13 Hammock Innovations for Max Relaxation

Take your summer lounging to the next level with hammocks that attach to your kayak or the roof of your car, fill up with water like a hot tub or double as a soccer goal. And if you're stuck at ...

Magic Ink: Highly Detailed Optical Illusion Drawings Pop Off the Page

Strategically placed shadows and highlights make these incredibly intricate nature-themed drawings more than just impressive pages in an artist’s sketchbook. The pieces reveal unexpected depths ...

Imperial Pomp: Strange Post-Soviet Skyscrapers in Remote Russia

Deep in the most remote reaches of the former Soviet Union, strange skyscrapers glitter against the sky, made all the more out of place by their sleepy rural settings and lack of similarly scaled ...

Mashup Masterpieces: 48 Fusions of Art and Contemporary Pop Culture

In centuries past, art has mostly depicted religious and political figures alongside artist’s models and ordinary people, but as future generations look back on our era, they’ll see a ...

Industrial Scars: Aerial Photos of Humankind’s Harrowing Impact on Earth

In strikingly well-composed, vividly colored scenes resembling abstract paintings, J. Henry Fair’s aerial photographs of toxic waste and industrial activity on Earth give us an uncomfortable ...

Modern Homes for Mermaids: 12 Houses Built Around Swimming Pools

Like oversized aquariums made for humans, these glass-walled swimming pools put bathers on display and making splashing in shimmering waters the defining feature of the homes, hotels and ...

Trippy Transformations: Makeup Artist Creates Unreal 3D Illusions

Makeup artist Mimi Choy slices, disjoints, stretches, blurs and otherwise radically transforms her own face in stunningly realistic optical illusions using nothing but makeup. No templates, ...

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