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At Cape Town’s advertising agency Ninety9Cents, the architecture firm Inhouse put in its 2 cents—in the form of the reception area’s shipping container. It’s lined with OSB and furnished to serve as a waiting lounge for clients from the likes of Checkers and Puma. That’s all a nod not only to the harbor, seen from the windows, but also to the creative solutions the agency sends around the globe. The other major intervention is less symbolic than pragmatic. A bleacher-style structure that also houses the kitchen acts as a communication hub for the 200-strong staff, split between three office levels...

Via Lauren Moss

It's easy to point out that there's something wrong with a system, such as the design of an urban street or neighborhood, but it's another thing entirely to come up with a design that would be better.

But when it comes to re-imagining the streets in your neighborhood, that process just got quite a bit easier, thanks to a new web app. With Streetmix, users design their perfect street, with the right balance of bike lanes, sidewalks, public transport and vehicle traffic lanes, just by dragging and dropping design segments and adjusting their parameters.

Some users are designing alternatives to real streets in their cities; the app uses real-world design constraints, which can help the layperson understand some of what urban planners need to incorporate in their designs and enable better communication between the planners and the population in design and use issues.

 

Via Lauren Moss