h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

the architecht's heaven: my home town! With fully architected works of art finding favour as the dominant building type in canberra, australia, many oddities arise: a person's office juts at random from a building, a library has amazingly wierd windows, there's a building near the film archives that resembles a dessert bowl turned upside-down, and my favourite, the white building downtown that is architectured to look wierd from all angles, with a folded down bit over the entrance, triangles peering out from the underside of the roof and all sorts of things like that. Our parliament house is built into a hill (which schoolchildren are encouraged to roll down until they make themselves ill) with a huge flagpole arising from its top. Also, the entire city is at great pains to be totally "feng shui" with a lake in the middle, pyramids on the corners of every building, circles on the pavement in the city... the list goes on. One of the few towns whose street plan was designed by an architect: the lake is artificial, the streets follow some curve plan making the central area look more like a pizza than the rigid city blocks of most maps. The result: drivers will spot the landmark they wish to approach and turn in the opposite direction by instinct. I have seen this approach turn out to be mighty effective!!!