Category: asides

Daniel Neville shows the logo and stamp set for the United Nations Climate Change Conference taking place in Copenhagen. The design by NR2154 is a densely woven ball of lines suggesting the interconnectedness of ecological systems, nations and international legislature.

Archinect are hosting a competition in response to Switzerland’s bizarre banning the construction of minarets within the country. The competition—Switzerland, We Have a Problem—calls for proposals for a deployable minaret: “To address this impasse between the rightful expression of the Muslim religion and the value of Switzerland’s overwhelmingly scenic environment we challenge you to design…

Olafur Eliasson is speaking at the MCA next Thursday ahead of the opening of a major exhibition of his works. You may know Mr Eliasson from that time he installed the sun in the Tate Modern.

Space food. Collated by maybe my new favourite image blog; Feasting Never Stops.

User interface design for cinema by Mark Coleran:

This is embarrassing. New Australian houses are, on average, the largest in the world with an average size is 214sqm. Even worse, NSW has the highest national average at 262.9sqm. The USA is close behind Australia at 202sqm. I guess, we architects are partly to blame for this—alterations to existing buildings are very rarely undertaken…