Author: Marcus Trimble

This is fun. The New Yorker article on Zumthor’s Pritzker Prize uses a photo from Flickr taken by RRR radio show, The Architects,’ Rory Hyde. Via BP

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The showroom for OMA’s 23E22 tower in New York, is a scale model of the residential tower on its side; the section of the building forming internal stepping platforms and the facade a series of boxes for modelsl. Via Rory Hyde.

Goon Tower &#8212 a collaborative pixel tower where each floor has been drawn by a member of the Something Awful forum. Some of the floors are quite fun, like the HAL 9000 floor, the Resevoir Dogs floor, and the Daft Punk floor. Via Archi Ninja

JG Ballard has died at the age of 78 after a long battle with cancer. He will be missed.  The Guardian.

Urban Futures is a “a series of events focused on examining new ideas regarding the relationship between architecture and the city which will in turn raise the possibility of new relations between local government, architects and developers.” The exhibition in the UTS Gallery opens on Tuesday 21st April and the Symposium “Architectural Type and the…