Super Colossal

Author: Marcus Trimble

  • Chipperfield’s Neues Museum

    Jonathon Glancey is ‘dazzled’ by Chipperfield’s restoration of the Neues Museum in Berlin.

  • Spain’s Love Affair with Architecture Ends

    Spain’s long-running love affair with cutting-edge architecture has come to a dramatic end as high-profile projects from the world’s greatest architects fall foul of recession and a countrywide building bust. The Guardian

  • XKCD

    XKCD on the day the windmills attack. Brilliant stuff. I would love to see Terry Gilliam resurrect his ill-fated film, but adapted to this sci-fi mashup.

  • Venturi’s Lieb House Relocated by Barge

    The Lieb House by Robert Venturi has been saved by relocating it across Upper New York Bay on a barge.  NYT

  • My Recession Is Worse Than Your Recession

    My Recession Is Worse Than Your Recession. A/N Blog finds a NYT article from 1992 titled ‘Recession is Ravaging Architectural Firms’ where we read uncannily similar rhetoric about nothing ever being the same again and this recession being ‘the worst I have ever seen’ and so on.

  • Prada Transformer

    More OMA/Prada madness &#8212 The Prada Transformer is a temporary building in Seoul with four sides and will be rolled around to accommodate various uses: cinema, art exhibition, fashion exhibition and a special event space. Via Archinect.