Jersey City – Transit Oriented Development...
The TOD as discussed in the USA – New Jersey.
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Scroll around the Sistine Chapel...
This is a pretty interesting website, where you can view the Sistine Chapel – ceiling, walls and floor.
200 years of global development in 4 minutes...
Statistics come to life when Swedish academic Hans Rosling graphically illustrates global development over the last 200 years.
Brisbane streetscape design guidelines...
The Brisbane streetscape design guidelines are a good reference document. Note the Construction Wraps section.
The squiggly buses and ferries...
Animated map of Auckland’s public transport system
Gold Coast foreshore redevelopment...
Following the development of the Broadwater Parklands, Gold Coast Council are completing foreshore upgrades at Surfers Paradise. Link.
Zurich light rail...
With its 12.7 km the Glattalbahn light rail runs through the (urban) landscape like a red thread, binding the individual towns and districts of the Glattal – north aglomeration of Zurich – into a single urban space. The line forms an integrating element in the overall design of the city and its landscape, creating a uniform image.
Fab pre-fab...
Just been looking over the Unitised Building development website.
Unitised Building has developed and patented a unique structural technology that allows for accelerated parallel on-site and off-site construction programs. It incorporates pre-fabricated methodologies and manufacturing processes into the construction programme allowing construction of high rise residential and hotel projects in about half the time, less material usage, less construction waste and for less cost. Architect Nonda Katsalidis is the inventor of the UB system.
Some other links:
http://twitter.com/#!/unitised
http://unitisedarchipad.com/
Road train as indigenous artwork...
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.
The Grill’d Airstream trailer...
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.
