“The prince does not debate and in a democracy that is unacceptable and in fact is non-constitutional. I think he pursues these topics because he is looking for a job and in that sense I sympathise with him. He is actually an unemployed individual, which says something about the state of the royal family. I don’t think he is evil per se, he is just misled.”
Architects’ Journal
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“I thought—and still think—it was sad that Manhattan had been developed to the point where there was no room or tolerance for decay (at least aboveground; the subway system is another matter). I’ve occasionally thought of the High Line as a symbol of an overheated design culture that shuns the ordinary or the unstylish.”
Metropolis
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“The profession has a difficult challenge ahead: how can it cut its cloth to a period of austerity without sacrificing its creative ambitions? … One unlikely answer may lie in an object that has become something of an emblem of our late capitalist economy: the sea container … If you have never imagined a container as an object of poetry, this is a project that could well change your mind.”
Telegraph
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“Renovation of a 1950s manufactured house sounds like code for a tear-down. But Ben Thorne and Eliza Howard think differently, perhaps because their home is Los Angeles' best-known example of the modernist prefab houses by the General Panel Corp. If that moniker doesn't ring a bell, then the name of one of its architects might: Walter Gropius, founder of the legendary German design school, the Bauhaus.”
LA Times
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“So called "carpet cloaks" are the first technology to succeed in hiding objects by deflecting light across a range of wavelengths … In the short term, such materials could be used to create new optical devices such as super-lenses for concentrating sunlight. In principle the cloaks might one day hide objects on walls and floors or in satellite images.”
New Scientist
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