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Keiichi Matsuda’s Augmented City looks at an urbanism overlaid with 3D interface elements where clothing and architecture may be user adjusted on the fly: See also, Matsuda’s earlier project, Domestic Robocop.

Matt Huynh and Gallery 4A are compiling stories of Sydney’s Chinatown that Huynh will rework into a comicbook. An earlier project by Huynh, took a similar approach, chronicling stories around his hometown in the Cabramatta/Canley Vale area. If you have a story to tell about this district in Sydney, send Matt and email. + Unrelated…

Monocle Magazine reports on the Venice Architecture Biennale. Includes a short section on the Australian pavilion as well as a short interview with Koolhaas, a look at Audi’s city of the future exhibition and Singapore’s pavilion concentrating on the compact city.

Openhaus and darch are running a competition to design a poster advertising architecture: On an international stage the global financial crisis and the current economic instability in Europe is shaping the built environment for future generations. Here in Australia, housing affordability, environmental sustainability and the development of regional and urban areas to house an increasing…

Lede of the Day: The authorities in southern Sudan have unveiled a $10bn (£6.4bn) plan to rebuild the region’s cities in the shapes of animals and fruit. The southern capital, Juba, is to be relocated and shaped like a rhinoceros, while Wau will become a giraffe whose neck will form the city’s main boulevard. Appropriately,…

iBiennale – an iPad app for the Venice Biennale, which opened (the vernisage at least) yesterday I believe. Looks pretty slick.