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Issue 3 of Junkjet (a favourite of mine) is out now: Junk Jet n°3 asked for fluxing architectures, boogie, buildings, rolling rocks, flying architectures, provisory pyramids, and temporary eternities; for all kinds of practical concepts and conceptual practices, for stable happenings and unstable thoughts, for lifted cellars and dugin landmarks, for curtains, mobiles, house boats,…

Australia is Big. Correct. And with a population of 22 million people, one of the least densely populated countries on the planet. Greenland is competitive in this market also.

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…

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.

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)

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!