Author: Marcus Trimble

  • Røde

    This post is why I love City of Sound &#8212 a study of manufacturing, urbanism, cultural camouflage and business structures, that is as much about the city as it is about microphones.

  • National Conferences

    Attendance is down this year for the Australian Institute of Architects national conference, Parallax. Curated by Terroir, the conference positions itself as a location of debate and discourse. Using, keynote speaker and conference anchor Slavoj Žižek’s writings on parallax as a starting point, the conference will seek to actively draw out points of difference and…

  • Zumthor’s RIBA Lecture

    Blueprint reports on Peter Zumthor’s RIBA lecture.  On the construction of the Kolumba Museum in Cologne Zumthor had this to say: “It’s a long story. I’m not going to bore you. We built it, it’s there”.

  • Poundbury Fire Station Designed by Prince Charles

    The Guardian reviews Prince Charles’s first building – the Poundbury fire station: “a dumpy neoclassical Georgian palace with three garage doors attached to it. It’s the Parthenon meets Brookside.”

  • Jonathon Glancey on Sanaa’s Serpentine Pavilion

    Jonathon Glancey on Sanaa’s  Serpentine pavilion.

  • How Tata Built the World’s Cheapest Car

    How Tata built the world’s cheapest car. NYT