Author: Marcus Trimble

On the standardisation of children’s playgrounds, their increasing safety standards and their lack of invention. The raddest playground I have visited was this one at Noguchi’s Moerenuma Park in the north of Japan. A safety code nightmare, but pretty damn fun. Via Kottke.

Piazza San Marco to get 1250m2 of big screen advertising to help pay for restoration works to the arcades of the square.

What do you want to do before you die? An online exhibition of peoples hopes and dreams scrawled over polaroid photographs. Thanks agian to David N for the link.

Breaking News: “The Tower of Pisa is being challenged by a lesser-known 12th Century building, in the northern Dutch town of Bedum, as Europe’s most steeply leaning tower.” I think Bedum smells the tourist dollar… Some pics of the church in question: 1 2 3 (Thanks David)

Styrobot. The world is just got a bit more awesome.

Monu Magazine issue 9 &#8212 Exotic Urbanism. “In this issue we have taken the deliberate risk of making ourselves look ridiculous by focusing its theme on “the exotic”, which is often seen as some sort of worn out, utterly out of date topic, immediately evoking images of colonialism and imperialism.”