Super Colossal

A link to what appears to be the DA drawings for Glenn Murcutt and Wendy Lewin’s Opal Muesum at Lightning Ridge: PDF
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Architecture School — A documentary following architecture students at the Tulane University as they build a house in New Orleans.
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Odd Couple

Looking for some images of an early Murcutt house online, I came across this delicious meeting of content and algorithmically generated advertising:

Link to the original site. (Although the add will presumably change at some point)

All brand names of non-sponsors are being systematically covered over within the Olympic Green.
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An enormous aluminium foil landscape by Kimihiko Okada at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Tokyo.
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Issue 9 of Mike Allred’s Madman comic is comprised of one continuous image telling the story of a fight sequence along a city street. Newsarama has the entire thing available as one long image. It would make a sweet mural…
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Human Birdsnest:

Bamboo Birdsnest:

Link. Thanks Rory.

Lego Birdsnest:

Flaming Desks. Socially networked desk renting where spare desks in your office may be rented for short term casual workers needing a place to sit for a little while.
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George Orwell has a blog. Sort of. Orwell’s diary is being published with each entry being published exactly seventy years after it was written. The first entry begins with “Caught a large snake in the herbaceous border beside the drive” so it is clear that we are in for something good.
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Gazex anti-avalanche sytems. Pruned is excited: “terrestrial augments, wilderness access, urban/wild interface, disaster urbanism, climate change and (admittedly a stretch) fountains”
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Beijing’s taxi’s each of which is fitted with recording equipment are potential distributed, mobile surveillance devices.
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Lead pencil typography: “The range of information they need to convey (manufacturer, product name, grading and classification, place of origin) calls for a self-contained system of semantic distinctions, and the unforgiving process by which tiny letters must be hot stamped into soft pine demands durable letterforms of considerable ingenuity.”
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Previous weather we have seen (aka How good is weather?!?):

Boing Boing TV presents a short film looking at the shantytowns in Shibuya. “I visited and small shantytown in Shibuya I had seen from the train the day before, tucked away in a kids playground. My translator and myself introduced ourselves to a friendly group of people and negotiated permission to pry into their lives and film, in exchange for some food, cigarettes and wine.”
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The NSW State Government is increasing commercial space and reducing residential space at the Hungry Mile site on the eastern fringe of Sydney’s CBD, leaving it a far less diverse urban environment that has a far greater load on the city’s transport system. The competition winning architects for the site — Hill Thallis, Paul Berkemeier and Jane Irwin have been shut out of proceedings for a while now, and have recently begun speaking out on the subject. Mr Thalis yesterday estimated the extra office space would be worth about $100 million a year to the Government. He would welcome a decision to spend that extra money on improved public transport and a better, bigger park but “if you have to get through a sterile business park to get to a park that is alienated from the city, then that’s not the best outcome”.
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