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A fantastic playground by BASE in Belleville Park, Paris. + I remember a playground somewhere in Canberra that we used to go to as kids that had in my memory at least had a similar quality to this. It had tunnels and a multilevel fort and felt dangerous and massive. Qualities that I would be…

The Archigram Archival Project. the work of the seminal architectural group Archigram available free online for public viewing and academic study. The project was run by EXP, an architectural research group at the University of Westminster. It was funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and made possible by the members of Archigram and…

Charles Holland is stalked by Mies in NYC.

Hipster Runoff on contemporary workplaces: “I want to be self-employed and work in a conceptual work space / modern cubicle.” For the unaware, Hipster Runoff is a unique and consistently spot-on commentary on current trends/memes, simultaneously lampooning and engaging them in spectacular fashion.

Angelo Candalepas along with staffers, Andrew Scott and David Neustein have been announced as the creative directors of next year’s Australian Institute of Architects National Conference. They have set up a website where they are calling for suggestions for speakers to invite to the conference.

A Roadmap for a lowcarbon Europe by 2050, the Practical Guide to a Prosperous Low Carbon Europe has been released. The third volume of the report, the ‘Graphic Narrative’, has been prepared by OMA with the European Climate Foundation. This narrative after establishing the data goes on to reframe Europe as ‘Eneropa’ with the continent’s…