Author: Marcus Trimble

The White House Redux competition entries are being collected and published in a massive 700 page catalogue. Damn, knew we should have entered that one… You can order a copy at the Storefront for Art and Architecture.

Researchers at Cornell have developed a synthetic ‘tree’ that simulates the capillary action that draws moisture up to the highest branches of a tree. It is a “long-standing theory that transpiration in trees and plants is a purely physical process, requiring no biological energy. It also may lead to new passive heat transfer technologies for…

Elizabeth Farrelly on the Venice Biennale: “Australian architecture, we see, has come some way since Philip Cox seemed to be its voice. But models are models, and without scale, context, habitation or explication they enchant but do not connect. The theme itself is a non-theme. So is Kipnis right? Are we partying while the world…

Luke Harding reports on the new Garage Centre for Contemporary Culture, a huge modern art gallery housed in a former Moscow bus depot. Is it Russia’s answer to the Tate Modern?   The Guardian.

EXTREME MACHINES courtesy of The Independent.

Yokohama House by Torafu architects. Right up our alley. Dezeen has photos of the completed house.