Three semi-trailers covered in the colours of the desert and depicting the traditional stories of Uluru have begun crossing the Australian continent. The designer trucks were unveiled by Anangu people at a traditional dance ceremony at the weekend and are now en route to Melbourne as part of a national roadshow. From ABC News 24.11.10.
Australian company, Grill’d, have taken an American icon, the Airstream trailer, and converted it into a mobile kitchen, travelling the country to serve up their “old fashioned” fare on the road.
Imported as a shell from the US and fitted out with in Australia, the aluminium exterior is matched by the stainless steel interior of the kitchen while a touch of timber veneer on the ceiling hints at the Airstream’s camper trailer heritage.
Here is an interesting Typefoundry blog link to the history of the typography on the 1 and 0 numerals on the front door of 10 Downing Street, London – the home of the British Prime Minister.
Thanks to Matthew Williams for posting this to the segdtalk network.
The Epping to Chatswood rail link intermediate stations won the Sir Zelman Cowen Award for Public Architecture at the Australian Institute of Architects 2010 national awards. Designed by Hassell architects, the stations are set deep below street level with soaring access voids finished in some refined and quality surface treatments.
“Our brief was to design ‘the next generation of transportation excellence’. Beyond that mandate we sought to create safe, efficient and inviting rail stations that seamlessly fuse architecture and engineering into a suite of memorable transportation hubs to capture the spirit and excitement of travel,” said Ross de la Motte, HASSELL Director.
Many of the design qualities from ECRL were being incorporated into the reference design for the defunct Sydney Metro project (Hassell, Cox Richardson, Arup, PB).
Luke Johnson – Principal at Hassell, designed the glass canopy structures for ECRL. Here are some sketches and images.
