Author: Marcus Trimble

By now you have heard that Peter Zumthor is this year’s recipient of the Pritzker Prize. I honour of this, I would like to point you to an *old* post at gravestmor detailing Matt and my trip to Vals and the chapel at San Benedetg. Hilarity ensues.

Prince Charles has designed a fire station in Poundbury, a mock ideal village in Dorset. Justin McGuirk writing for the Guardian: “If you were momentarily fooled that this was the work of an architect, check out the two black drainpipes dropped down on either side of the faux balcony. Nice. Like designing a Bentley with…

Scale Architects have a new blog attached to their site. If you are not already familiar with their work, I recommend checking it out. There are some very nice projects in there…

This is genius: 49 Cities by WORKac is a population study of 49 utopian propositions including Rem Koolhaas’ Exodus in London and Kenzo Tange’s Tokyo Bay project. It will be on exhibition at the Storefront for Art and Architecture from 14 April to 30 May. WORKac.

The BLDGBLOG Book. For realz.

Bruce Gilden continues to photograph the effects of the foreclosure crisis in America.  Magnum has posted his more recent work from Detroit, Michigan.