Author: Marcus Trimble

Visit UC’s Earthquake Engineering Research Centre with Wired and see the 400-square-foot ‘shake table’ in action.

Nicolai Ouroussoff on Zaha’s Chanel Pavilion:  ‘The wild, delirious ride that architecture has been on for the last decade looks as if it’s finally coming to an end. And after a visit to the Chanel Pavilion that opened Monday in Central Park, you may think it hasn’t come soon enough.’ NYT.

Zaha Hadid has also collaborated with Lacoste to design dynamic footwear. A mockup of the shoe can be seen here. 1,000 pairs of the limited edition shoes are to go on sale in May.  via IHT.

Soriano’s Biblioburro is a bookmobile of a different kind: a man leading two donkeys carrying 4,800 books to people living in impoverished regions of Colombia. IHT article. Slideshow.

The TKTS booth, designed by locals Choi Ropiha but delivered by others has opened in Times Square, New York. Archidose and The Architects Newspaper have more images.

The chopstick manufacturing city of Obama, Japan, has launched the ‘Obama for Obama’ campaign with T-shirts, rallies and the ‘Obama Girls’, a 70 strong local Hawaiian Hula dancing troupe.  Magnum Slideshow.