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It's kinda crazy how much this pink building has been hyped (it's already on the cover of their monograph?!?) I get it, the floorplans and materials are better than other $2m Bklyn apts, and the color is to 2024 what rose gold was for 2017, but is there more to it?

Surely, someone has already built this out of lego, right?

If you're going to do something, it's worth doing it right & that's especially true with maps. Making something that looks look clean & sophisticated is pointless if it doesn't convey the necessary information.

This bit is also insane—line thickness suggests that MacArthur Rd turns into a cute lil street. It's still a state route there with a speed limit of 60 & tractor trailers. I see terrified pedestrians on stranded on the traffic island while trying to cross to Royal Park's north.

There is no information on signalised or zebra crossings, something you might want to know given that the cycle/footpath on the east side terminates at this 30m ambiguous fatality-waiting-to-happen zone just beyond the map's edge.

The tram tracks and tram line are green-on-green and given less emphasis than the nature strips and median strips.

It doesn't give you any information on the street. For example that there's a shared cycle/footpath on the east side of Royal PDE, but only a footpath on the west side. There is almost zero informational value to producing these, it's likely a negative value: more harm than good.

Not sure when @cityofmelbourne rolled out this wayfinding but it's fairly recent and, sorry to say, awful. It looks like a map showing tree cover, not pedestrian routes.

Question for Aus urban people: is there any history of live-in supers here? I know it's rare in the US (outside NYC) but, in lots of ways, it's a good arrangement. Every week there're ~10 people driving to my blding (40 flats) to do random non-specialised maintenance jobs.

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lol. Uni Melb turned their brutalist John Medley Building (a structure they're still hoping to tear down & replace w/ a glass box) into a Neo-Georgian McMansion for the mandatory training video that I'm suffering through.

This is so twisted. Melb property agents encouraging the ultra-rich to buy Deco apt blocks, rip out the units, and turn them into ostentatious mansions. This a block of four solidly built 2-bdrm flats that's 200 m from a tram stop.

World's most liveable city

This is just one very small step from Miranda July redecorating her motel room.

Anne Hidalgo's done great things for Paris but this is not one of them. Olympic rings are a logo like any other.

I think the pink building is dope, but this article—and I realize it's in the Real Estate section—is basically just a press release from the developers.

Just had a lucid dream where I'm reading a 2025 NYT Magazine and the interview section is titled "Joe Biden Isn't Sorry: We Sit Down with the Former President to Talk Aging, Ice Cream, and Phillies Stats".

The radio spots for Vic's learner driver mentor program are telling. They basically start by saying that without your help non-drivers will be never be able to achieve a life with independence & fulfilment. Which is prob true in Melb's increasingly car-dependent outer suburbs.

Another PhD position, across town at Deakin University, focuses on the ethics of 'digital remains'. 💀 https://t.co/szZB2uo6ae