The Unfinished Swan is a game in development set in an all white world. Navigation through this space is achieved by shooting paint at the walls, revealing surface and enclosure. Not unlike how a new city is experienced, or I imagine, how bats see navigate through their environment. Added to the list of games I will not have time to play.

The Unfinished Swan - Tech Demo 9/2008 from Ian Dallas on Vimeo.

The Sydney Architecture Festival was held at Customs House on Monday. This is the second year that it has been running and the scope of the event and the visitor turnout was all much improved over last year, so it looks promising that it will grow into a fully rounded festival in the next few years. There were talks, and tours of buildings, architects offices and islands, as well as various other things, but the highlights for me, were the Kids activities.

The first was The City of the Future; a massive table of Lego that by the end of the day was packed full of towers and houses in a polychromatic maelstrom. As is to be expected with a large number of architects present, there was much parent involvement, and a topical Dubai-style competition to build the tallest tower.

The second was We Built This City put on by Polyglot (and although not officially a part of the festival program, a good fit nonetheless) in which thousands of cardboard boxes were built into towers that were then demolished by earthquakes and rebuilt into long tunnels which were then demolished all to the tune of popcorn. Excellent fun.

(We Crush This City)

We (as a part of darch) put together the Iron Architect competition where three teams competed for an afternoon to thread new public transport systems through the CBD. Models were built over the top of the city model in the atrium of Customs House. The teams were Offshore Studio with SO:AD, a team from Hassell, and a team comprising of Andrew Burns, Hamish Watt and Steve Sheridan.