Author: Marcus Trimble

It looks as though the on-again off-again DCM project for the Stone ‘enge visitor centre is back on again. Via Butterpaper.

Magenta (aka Pink) is not a colour. It does not exist in the light spectrum and has no wavelength attributed to it. What we see is a result of the brain attempting to make sense of light comprised of both ends of the visible spectrum. [Update] Turns out, it is.

Belgium has opened an octagonal, spaceship-like research station in Antarctica to study climate change. The station is energy-self-sufficient and will focus on analyzing nearby ice shelves. IHT

Anthony Lane reviews “Gomorrah” in the current issue of the New Yorker: ‘the movie takes constant care, with a kind of appalled wonder, to survey the arenas of their mayhem. Don Ciro does the rounds of Scampia, a northern suburb of Naples, where people live and die in tower blocks that look like ruined ziggurats.…

The contents of Michael Jackson’s Neverland are officially up for auction. The Guardian offers an exclusive preview.

Alice Rawsthorn asks whether the plastic window frame will be an architectural icon of our time? IHT