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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.

Las Pozas: Surreal Concrete Sculpture Garden in the Jungle of Mexico

Stairs spiral up to the sky in strange configurations, going nowhere, in a tangle of surrealist sculptural structures in a Mexican jungle. Why is this series of concrete wonders hidden within the ...

Seeing Space in New Ways: 13 Creative Maps & Navigational Guides

With the advancement of technology, the ways in which we perceive information have become increasingly visual, interactive and all around multi-dimensional - so why shouldn't maps evolve to ...

Crate Core: Shipping Container Tower Hidden Inside a Carriage House

When glimpsed from above, this stack of vivid orange shipping containers on a Brooklyn rooftop looks like an add-on structure, but it doesn’t end where the original house’s roof begins. It ...

Wild & Scrappy: 3D Trash Sculptures of Animals Pop Up in Urban Spaces

Literally popping out of city walls in three dimensions, wild animals emerge from a jumble of car parts, corrugated metal and random industrial objects masterfully layered and painted by Bordalo ...

Check Out These Books: 18 Home Libraries for Ravenous Readers

Short of actually curling up in a relaxing space to get lost in the words on a page, there's nothing reading enthusiasts love more than gazing at photo after photo of beautiful libraries, ...

Blow-Up Party: Inflatable Black Plastic Dance Club & Bar

Deliberately dark and pipe-like to recreate the feel of being in a secret subterranean space, this inflatable nightclub and bar by Bureau A comes complete with blow-up benches, tables and a DJ ...

Still Standing Tall: 7 Monumental Statues of the Ancient World

Perhaps we’ll never know what it was like land on a Greek Island and gaze up at the long-lost Colossus of Rhodes, one of the original Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, but there are many ...

True Colors: Sony Glitter-Bombs an Abandoned Romanian Casino

An abandoned Romanian casino long past its prime is infused with new life in the form of thousands of colorful glitter bombs in this striking ad by Sony for its range of BRAVIA 4K HDR ...

Urban Rigger: Floating Student Housing Made of Shipping Containers

This hexagonal floating student housing complex made of stacked reclaimed shipping containers is better than any dorm you could hope to live in. ‘Urban Rigger’ by Bjarke Ingels (BIG) creates ...

Design in Stitches: 45 Artistic Embroidered & Cross-Stitched Creations

This is definitely not your grandmother’s embroidery. It’s stitched into the helmets of soldiers, onto car doors and fences, producing cats that pop out of shirt pockets and portraits so ...

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