Author: Marcus Trimble
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World’s Largest Indoor Mountain Range Cancelled
Dubai Debt Crisis Halts Building Of World’s Largest Indoor Mountain Range. “Maybe this cold hard dose of reality is what Dubai needed,” said Sheikh Hamdan, adding that he remained “hopeful” his mountain range would one day be completed. “Maybe it’s time for us to pull ourselves up by the straps of our handmade custom-fitted patent-leather…
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Blueprint
Late last year it was announced that Lend Lease had been awarded development rights at Barangaroo, a massive harbourside project on the western flank of Sydney’s CBD. The proposal concentrates the built area to the south of the site leaving the north of the site to parkland. For additional bling, a Richard Rogers designed hotel…
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A New Approach to China
Google to cease censoring its search results for China, following cyber attacks on their servers originating from China and targeting Chinese Human Rights activists. Should the Chinese Government not allow the search results through uncensored, Google is threatening to pull out of China completely. Is this the first trade embargo placed on a nation by…
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Church Machine
Church Machine—A must watch 16 minute film by Harvard GSD student Matt Storus for the ‘Mediums’ studio. The film brilliantly captures the application-hopping and short attention span of the current workplace, while delivering a critique of and response to parametric design. More at Mammoth and Serial Consign.
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The Third and the Seventh
The Third and the Seventh—a short, meditative, sentimental film on architectural photography and space. Beyond the striking imagery and cinematography, the film is notable in that it is entirely CGI.
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ArchiBlogComic
Archi-Ninja’s Linda Bennett displays some excellent cartooning skills in her strip “Top 9 Ninja Characteristics of Awesome Architecture Blogs.” I hope these comics become a regular feature on the site… And we are of course chuffed to have been granted the gift of Super Strength…