Author: Marcus Trimble
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The International Aquatic Plant Layout Contest
The results are in for The International Aquatic Plant Layout Contest. Curiously they all seem to be attempting to recreate clearly non-aquatic environments. What fish don’t want to swim through miniature alpine ranges?
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Porsche
How Porsche took over Volkswagen and VW became the world’s most valuable company for a short period of time, in layman speak.
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The Design Canon
Massimo Vignelli has put up a PDF design manifesto online — The Design Canon. Great, classic stuff.
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Future Systems’ London Routemaster Bus
Bdonline unveils Future Systems’ competition entry for the new London Routemaster bus. One posted comment seems particularly apt: ‘It looks like Noddy and Big Ears would be at home here.’
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Get Ready for High-rise Sydney!
The Sydney Morning Herald has been getting good mileage today out of the NSW State Governments planned western metro. The proposal is to run a metro out to Parramatta with increased density along the way. Never mind that the metro is as likely to get off the ground as the numerous public transport strategies of…
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Parralax
Parallax — The 2009 Australian Institute of Architects national conference with creative directors Terroir. Kaleidoscopotastic!