Author: Marcus Trimble

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New York City car owners accrued 9,955,441 parking tickets from July 2007 to June 2008. The New York Times shows you where they were issued. + Is it shocking to anyone else that one block on West 23rd St can accrue 10,900 parking tickets in a year? That is an average of thirty tickets a…

An obituary for Joern Utzon in the SMH.

 Joern Utzon, the Danish architect who designed the  Sydney Opera House, has died at aged 90. Associated Press.

Roche has announced it will not proceed with the 43 storey tower designed by Herzog de Meuron for Basel. Tages Anzeiger

The Architect’s Journal reports that Norman Foster and Zaha Hadid have been selected for the redevelopment of  Mecca.  The scheme could involve a huge new structure around the central Haram mosque that will eventually be capable of holding three million people, making it the ‘highest occupancy’ building in the world. AJ