Posts Tagged ‘urbanism’

Donny Shoppo.

Yes I am one of those suburban types who likes to pour scorn on anything beyond the perimeter of my usual traversal – i.e. anything much beyond, say, Camberwell in the East, Yarraville in the West, Brunswick in the North and Brighton in the South. And that’s being generous. But I had heard whispers that [...]

An imperfect storm

SO much bullsh in the ether about how we get around at the mo in this town, Melbourne. The car lobby’s whining about the cost of petrol (only going to get worse, suckers) while the Labor Party in Victoria is split over Rod Eddington’s proposals for a cross-city tunnel (costing billions of dollars and only [...]

Daiba

I may have been dreaming, but actually I’m pretty sure it happened. For designing Daiba, someone let the psycho architects out of the sanatorium and said “hell, if we are living in an earthquake prone zone, Takashi old boy, and the building’s going to come down anyway, we may as well design buildings that are [...]