Author: Marcus Trimble
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The Cosmonaut of the Erotic Future
The Cosmonaut of the Erotic Future. An essay by Aaron Schuster on levitation in art history: I think it would not be terribly controversial to call Yves Klein the artist-levitator of the twentieth century. Indeed, with Klein, levitation becomes a veritable revolutionary program. In his 1959 manifesto Overcoming the Problematics of Art, the artist proclaims:…
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UTS Broadway
All Stage 1 Entries, Shortlisted entries, and the winning proposal by DCM for the UTS Broadway Competition are now up online. Thanks John.
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James Turrell at Design Observer
James Turrell at Design Observer, speaking about his project at Roden Crater: Exactly. They’re only interested in events that occur in that space. That’s why the Pyramids are much more interesting to me than Stonehenge. A pyramid is a structure with an opening to an event outside. The light enters down the shaft only once…
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Top Ten Comic Book Cities
The Architects Journal lists their Top Ten Comic Book Cities. Unlike the top ten gaming cities they ran short while ago, this is a pretty solid list. Miller’s New York City, Moore’s and Campbell’s London, Morrison and Quitely’s Metropolis are significant studies of urbanism through the medium of the comic book, with Frank Miller, in…
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Paddington Reservoir Review for Monument Magazine
Following is a review that I wrote for Monument Magazine. I have written briefly about the Reservoir on the blog when it opened, but it the article following was a good opportunity to It appears in Issue 92 currently on sale. Paddington Reservoir Tonkin Zulaikha Greer with JMD Design (Landscape) and Simpson Design (Structural Engineering)…
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Think Brick
This year’s About Face Award—the annual competition looking for innovative use of bricks—entries are up online, for you to again, vote for your favourite. This year’s brief called for medium scale mixed use developments, with entries by DRAW, Minifie Nixon, MCK amongst others.