Author: Marcus Trimble
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Joe the Barbarian
I picked up the first issue of Joe the Barbarian, Grant Morrison’s latest series from Vertigo Comics this week. The story follows Joe, a diabetic teenager, who in the midst of a seizure has a hallucinatory adventure through his house. In the first establishing issue we follow Joe as he makes his way home from…
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Underground Masterplan
Regarding the new waterfront city of Tanjong Pagar in Singapore, The Economic Strategies Committee makes a case for a planning framework for underground space: “The committee said there is also a need for an underground master plan. It said the government should catalyse the development of underground space over the next decade. The committee also…
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Eiffel X-Rays
Strange Harvest uncovers a spate of Souvenir Eiffel Tower Trinket related injuries and their corresponding X-Rays. A 3 year old boy presented to our accident and emergency department with an obvious penetrating head injury. He had tripped and fallen onto a metal model of the Eiffel Tower which then became rigidly lodged into his skull.
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Unhappy Hipsters
Unhappy Hipsters. Comprised of well groomed serious people in photoshoots from Dwell magazine, with a couple of witty captions. I guess style of photographing architecture is better than the empty, pristine, shells that we are used to, but a guy walking around knitting a scarf is really a bit too much. (thanks Adrian)
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Unbuilt Architecture Awards
The 2009 Unbuilt Architecture awards were announced in Sydney last night. Like most years, there is a good selection of unsuccessful competition entries, and aborted projects to peruse. And special props to SC buddies, Tribe Studios, Welsh+Major and Room 11 for getting special mentions!
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Mammoth List
Mammoth’s spot-on list of the best architecture of the decade. Including a list of the Large Hadron Collider, the Svalbard Seed Vault, the iphone, and one of my favourites the Quinta Monroy housing by Elemental.