Author: Marcus Trimble

Many of London’s signature skyscrapers have been delayed or put on hold with the economic downturn and credit crisis.  Some expect the construction sector will suffer a further fall of 9% in 2009, the biggest drop in 3 decades.  spiegel online

bdonline has posted a video of David Chipperfield Architects’ dramatic remodelling of the Neues Museum in Berlin.

“Vides” (Voids) a retrospective of 51 years of exhibitions without exhibits by nine different artists has opened at the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris.  In almost a dozen rooms the National Museum of Modern Art  has assembled exhibitions that showed absolutely nothing, leaving empty the space for which they were designed. via The Independent

Russel Davies reviews Cosmic Catch an electronic toy that uses RFID sensors to detect who has the ball and directs who the ball should be thrown to next.

Dieter Rams’ 10 Commandments of good design. “An honestly-designed product must not claim features it does not have – being more innovative, more efficient, of higher value. It must not influence or manipulate buyers and users.”

Monocle talks to the CEO of  Lego, Jørgen Vig Knudstorp, about the future of the toy.