Author: Marcus Trimble

The Economist on Richard Serra. It was in Borromini’s church, San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane, in Rome that Richard Serra first saw the light a decade ago. “I was standing in a side aisle, looking at the oval space on the floor and the same oval on the ceiling, called a Borromini ellipse. I thought…

Dubai keeps on building despite growing fears that the Middle East will not be immune to a global slump. The Guardian.

Illustrator Harriet Russell put the postal service to the test with a series of 130 self-addressed letters using increasingly complex puzzles and ciphers to conceal her address.  Independent Article. Slideshow.

Local architecture super writer, Naomi Stead has a blog! Yes. A particular fave is this article on this year’s RAIA National Architecture Conference.

The New York Times is shutting down the online version of the International Herald Tribune. Very sad, we like the IHT…

Given the value of a well designed web site, Alice Rawsthorn wonders why so many are poorly designed? IHT.