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Architecture, Art, Design & Built Environments

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.

Painting with Light on a Canvas of Night: Alien Blooms by Hannu Huhtamo

The strange glowing figures in these images are so complex, you might think they’re screenshots from a digital animation, or created in Photoshop - but there’s no computer-based trickery ...

High-Elevation Dining: 12 Sky-Scraping Restaurants Around the World

As long as heights don't make you queasy, you could enjoy one of the best meals of your life from as high as 1,350 feet above street level, gazing out onto bustling cities like Dubai, Tokyo, ...

Abandoned Montage: VFX Film Technique Adapted to Eerie Art Series

Photographs of abandoned houses and dreary, overgrown landscapes are layered with hand-painted elements on glass panels in a technique called ‘matte painting’, one of the original VFX ...

Mobility Vision: Hyundai Concept Connects Smart Home to Driverless Car

Who needs a garage when your autonomous vehicle could simply pull up into a port inside your home and seamlessly integrate itself with the interior? Hyundai wants to give us all another reason to ...

Not Your Grandma’s Kitchen: 17 Modern Designs for the Discerning Cook

If these designs are any indication, the kitchen of the future is modular, minimalist, mobile and so unobtrusive that it can practically blend into the furniture in your living room. Whether you ...

Street Light Art: Traffic Signals Emit Surreal Rainbow Streams in Hazy City

It’s almost a cliche at this point to highlight the beauty that can be found in everyday items, like that scene in the movie ‘American Beauty’ where Wes Bentley and Thora Birch stare at a ...

Glow-in-the-Dark Outdoor Art: 15 Designs That Come Alive At Night

Phosphorescent paints, pigments and pebbles that charge via sunlight by day and glow after dark transform the nighttime urban landscape, illuminating murals, bike paths, skate parks, rivers and ...

Timelapse Tour: Watch How Global Cities Grow Between 1984 and 2016

Human civilization has grown and expanded at an amazing rate - or alarming, depending on who you ask - and you can watch the last 32 years of it unfold via satellite imagery thanks to Google’s ...

Extreme Architecture: 15 Structures Built to Withstand the World’s Coldest Places

You might say that the kinds of built structures you find in either Antarctic research stations or the coldest permanently inhabited place on Earth (located in Russia) are polar opposites: some ...

Sci-Fi to Reality: Giant Manned Robot Method-2 Has Taken Its First Steps

Looking and working remarkably like the robots in the 2009 movie Avatar, the 1.5-ton, 13-foot-tall ’METHOD-2’ by South Korean firm Hankook Mirae Technology has officially taken its first ...

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