Author: Marcus Trimble

Harmony—a nifty web based sketching app. It works on the iPhone too, for algorithmic touchscreen drawing fun on the bus.

Orhan Ayyüce writing on Twin Buildings for Archinect: As you can see from the diagram above, a developer can build two buildings with twin concept. He can save a lot of cash from the architectural billing and contract time, from the material purchases and double discounts, and, from the ease of proven installation and erection,…

Open Agenda: A new competition run by UTS for recent architecture graduates. Open Agenda will award seed funding to three exceptional design research proposals that explore new positions in architecture for critical consideration. We are looking for text and graphic based proposals that seek to develop research through architectural design. Proposals will be evaluated on…

The Guardian reports on the new American Embassy in London, which the US state department says has been designed to “reflect the values of the American people”. Those values it seems are reflected by a 12-storey cube clad in a blastproof glass and plastic façade with a moat running halfway around the building, which the…

A film on the recently completed Rolex Learning Centre by sanaa. More images of the building at Space Invading.