Archive for September 22nd, 2009
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Modern Purple Bathtub from Devon$Devon
Devon$Devon is an Italian brand with a History, and was ” born from an idea to re-create the bathroom as inspired by the characteristics and atmosphere from the Victorian era to the first half of the 1900s”. Chic and stylish, this purple bathtub could be your answer to a complete no bathroom look. Embedded in [...]
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Dream Interiors in New South Wales
Surrounded by gardens and located in a quite place in New South Wales, this home is up for sale at the sum of $1,200,000. The interiors are really impressive; even though sometimes you will have the feeling that too many things fit in one room, at a closer look you will see how everything is [...]
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Tephra Formations Furniture Set by Robert Stadler
Looking for a little something to become the main focal point in your living room? Look no further as designer Robert Stadler has come up with an amazing piece of furniture inspired by volcanic explosions — the Tephra Formations. Meant as a follow up to Stadler’s Pools & Pouf collection from earlier this month, Tephra [...]
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Don’t Look Down: 10 Peculiarly Precarious Modern Buildings
The world’s worst skyscraper disaster is still fresh in our minds, and every year sees a new calamity in our global obsession with building storey after storey, higher and higher. You would think that all architects would be careful to make their buildings look as stable as mountains. You’d be wrong. Thanks to modern building [...]
Zeta Fireplace, Portable and EcoSmart
Winner of a prestigious design award (Australian International Design Awards, Sydney, 2009) , this amazing looking EcoSmart fireplace can remind one of a notebook or laptop. Even though the dimensions are not quite the same- Zeta has a Height of 818mm (32.2″), a width of 1060mm (41.73″) and a 911mm (35.87″) depth, [...]
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Beach House With Transparent Glass Walls And A Modern Interior
This spectacular house is located in Laguna Beach and it is up for sale at the price of $11,850,000. With amazing view over the Pacific, see-through windows and a lavishing interior design, one does not have to question its price. You would think that with this fabulous exterior design, this house can be spotted miles [...]
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Beach House With Transparent Glass Walls And A Modern Interior
Glass Curtains, A Modern Alternative
Even if you are using classical curtains or you’ve moved on to the modern modern blinds, here is a great tip for an upgrade. The Sprinz Glass Curtain is a sliding glass masterpiece who is sure to capture your attention. Weather you place it at home, in an office or in a conference room, the [...]
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New Perth to Bunbury Highway has finally arrived
“A key moment in WA’s transport history”
Colin Barnett.
Yes that is right. We now have the choice to visit the disastrous, ill-conceived, urban mess that is Mandurah. The fact the entire southbound population was forced through this bottleneck, planning failure for years was too much to deal with.
3.8 million man hours of labour has trimmed half an hour off the journey to Bunbury from Perth of which millions of commuters will be eternally grateful for. $705 million has gone into 70.5km of dual carriageway with six interchanges, 10 intersections and 19 bridges.
This is an enormous amount of capital to inject into infrastructure. Infrastructure that can be argued adds little to the social fabric of Perth and has massive ongoing maintenance costs. Further to drive in our little metal boxes some say. Further to push the ill-conceived ideals of suburban-inclined developers others say. Though the freeway isn’t the problem here. It’s our mentality toward living and how lifestyle is portrayed to homebuyers.
Dale Alcock’s latitude range
This freeway extension bypasses Mandurah, and consequently the development that has occurred along Mandurah’s Old Coast Road. Look either side past the coastal dunes and you’ll see what occurs in every city that experienced rapid growth in the 20th century. A road (not a freeway) that was never designed or adapted to the vast amount of suburban development that occurred along its edges. Traffic that wanted to get through but needed to wait at a set of lights along a primary arterial link. As Perth city grew along the coast, so did congestion along the Old Coast Road. It was not uncommon on any long weekend, when thousands flocked south for their holidays, to see bumper to bumper traffic from Baldivis to Dawesville. Many cursed the traffic, though it is not the traffic. It is development models that are accepted, misunderstood and not challenged.
Ad-hoc suburban development reliant on the automobile led to the need for a bypass of this size. It exists now. The decision to build it and complete it was made and executed. What we need is for urban designers and planners to step up to the challenge and provide well considered economically viable solutions for the growth that will occur along the new freeway’s periphery. The rash of suburbia has started to infect its edges already, though the difference is that this freeway, for now, has been executed with that in mind.
