Author: Marcus Trimble

Realtime urban infomatics: A bus stop in the Netherlands weighs people sitting on at the bus stop and displays their weight live on the neighbouring advertising for gym, Fitness First.

Today In Everyday Construction Details: US Patent 6,203,867: Product Package Having Reliable Openability. “A plastic packaging material which, when formed as a package having seams, will provide a predictable line of failure along a seam when the package is opened to prevent the package from tearing down the side. The predictable failure path is provided…

More images and a video of the relocation of Venturi’s Lieb House at bdonline.

Squidspot’s Periodic Table of Typefaces.

Paul Goldberger on the new stadiums for the Yankees and the Mets:  ‘As for the retro-classic side of Citi Field, the Mets, having no ancient ballpark of their own to evoke, have appropriated someone else’s….A pastiche of the Dodgers’ former field in Brooklyn pasted onto the façade of a different team’s twenty-first-century ballpark in Queens…

Nicolai Ouroussoff reviews the five competition entries for Stockholm’s Slussen project to transform the centre of the city. NYT