Author: Marcus Trimble
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Guardian’s 2008 Cultural Highlights
The Guardian’s critics nominate the cultural highlights of 2008.
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Sydney’s Harbour Pools
Pruned’s recent posting on ocean pools, reminded me that I had always planned to follow up on the ocean pools of Sydney survey that I posted a little while ago with one on the harbour pools. The harbour has a number of pools within the heads that provide a service less concerned with the taming…
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Lopate Interviews Daniel Libeskind and Nicholas Fox Weber
Leonard Lopate interviews Daniel Libeskind and Le Corbusier biographer Nicholas Fox Weber. WNYC.
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MCA Extension
The MCA in Sydney today announced plans for its extension by Sam Marshall. Lets see if it fairs better than the tabletop winning competition entry by Sauerbruch and Hutton from 2001. I like that the press are trying to tag it as the ‘Rubiks Cube’; apparently and staggeringly never having seen a Rubik’s Cube…
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The Mohave Phone Booth
The Mojave phone booth was a lone phone booth in the Mojave Desert that developed a cult following in the late nineties. It was located 15 miles from the nearest highway and miles from anywhere else, and in an early internet meme people started ringing it daily while others went out to answer the random…
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Rybczynski Reviews ‘Le Corbusier: A Life’ and ‘Le Corbusier Le Grand.’
Witold Rybczynski reviews ‘Le Corbusier: A Life’ and ‘Le Corbusier Le Grand.’ ‘Weber’s admiring biography brings Le Corbusier to life, unraveling many obscure aspects of a man who was famously secretive and, though he wrote some 50 books, divulged very little of himself.’ IHT