Author: Marcus Trimble
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New Unsympathetic New Sympathetic
Willoughby Council Development Control Plan Part D2.5 F This is a diagram in an actual planning document.
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Bad British Architecture
Bad British Architecture. Performs as advertised.
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Critical Beats
Nancy Levison writing for Design Observer on the state of architectural criticism. You can see the point. Cheap and easy access to a virtually limitless catalogue of artworks is no guarantee of great arts criticism — but it makes possible the sustained engagement and encyclopaedic learning that inspire it. (I am convinced that the incomparable…
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Joy Street
Joy Street. The Dutch pavilion at the 2010 Shanghai World Expo.
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Crazy
Butterpaper directs us to a nutty piece in the Sydney Morning Herald where film maker Phillippe Mora takes two thousand words to accuse Utzon of plagiarism for not providing written acknowledgement of having been aware of a building that has overlapping shell form. Mora it seems saw a model of the Sternkirche by Otto Bartning—a…
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The Architects on Docklands
Simon Knott on the RRR radio show, The Architects, talking about the failings of Melbourne’s Docklands, articulating my primary fears for Barangaroo in Sydney: “If you look at the Melbourne city grid and the land parcels in the 1830s they were small parcels of land, they were small titles so it allows hundreds of different…