Super Colossal

Eyes.
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With all the Gehl-Inspired talk about burying the Cahill Expressway, should Sydney instead look to the other end of its CBD, and address the traffic issues caused by Central Station by burying the train lines and reconnecting the old street patterns? Elizabeth Farrelly thinks so.
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Dieter Rams pool at Flickr.
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Pecha Kucha Volume 08

Wednesday, 19th December 2007 Tweet

Pecha Kucha Volume 08 - Thursday Night!

At:
Arts on Bourke (the old Labour Club)
464 Bourke Street
Surry Hills
6pm bar open, 6:30 presentations start.

Featuring:

Deborah Kelly - Artist
Craig Allchin - Six Degrees
Zoe Sadokierski - Book Designer
Sheridan Kennedy - Jewellery
Brian Parkes - Object Gallery
Mary Libro - Feeder
Aaron Seymour - Designer
Rob Beson - Architecture Student

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Sydney architecture practice, and buddies of Super Colossal, DRAW have a shiny new website up and running. Check it out.
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Globtastic street awning by ARM in Melbourne.
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“Secretary of State Madeleine Albright in front of a Stealth bomber”.
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Ahem. If anyone is still looking for Chirstmas presents for me….
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Google Zeitgeist 2007.
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We like Sarah Sze.
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UPS has started using package flow software to eliminate inefficient driving patterns, including left hand turns. Last year they saved 3,000,000 gallons (11,000,000L) of fuel using the software.
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BLDGBLOG on the proposal by Front Studio to turn Philadelphia’s vacant and abandoned city blocks back to agricultural uses.
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A group of guerilla urbanists in Paris have secretly restored a clock in the Pantheon Monument, that had been left rusting since the 1960′s. They set up a workshop in a cavity of the monuments dome, where the restoration work was undertaken between 2005-06.
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The Pixel Nest will be on display tonight as a part of the UTS graduate exhibition. “As it moves from inner city Sydney, to a plaza in Izumo, to streets or squares in Shanghai, Delhi, and San Jose it connects local creativity to a global audience. pixel.nest displays examples of urban creativity from its host cities. It encourages debate, entrepreneurship, global connectivity and mobility in an immersive spatial environment.”
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Parkour fellow, Lewis, ran around London’s South Bank without touching the ground to raise awareness of the issues of living in landmine affected areas.
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The Manila North Cemetery houses a population of 10,000 residents comprised of those that cannot afford to live in the city and those that have inherited the mausoleums and have chosen to move in a few years earlier than their forebear likely imagined.
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I don’t know why, but someone has made a HIGHLY detailed isometric drawing of Hong Kong. Like an E-Boy poster only without all the fun bits.
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Tattoo House is a new house by the Prolific Maynard’s. + Their site has had a bit of a revamp, and is looking very nice.
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