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Architecture

Architecture

"London 2012 Olympics: Zaha Hadid, the eternal outsider" - The Telegraph

Dezeen Wire: The Telegraph interviews architect Dame Zaha Hadid on her career and her design for the Aquatics Centre for the London 2012 Olympic Games, with Hadid revealing that she hasn't been invited to the games: "“Not me, not a single member of my team has been invited to a single event in the pool or anything” - The Telegraph

Related: Zaha Hadid becomes a dame

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Marcus Fairs | 9 July 2012 | Leave a comment
Architecture

Architecture

"Is the Centre Court roof the real star of Wimbledon 2012?" - Telegraph

Dezeen Wire: as the sliding roof on Wimbledon's Centre Court was closed today to allow the men's singles final between Andy Murray and Roger Federer to continue despite heavy rain, The Telegraph argues that the Populous-designed cover is the real star of this year's championships. More

Marcus Fairs | 8 July 2012 | 3 comments
Design

Design

Gijs Bakker leaves Design Academy Eindhoven

Dezeen Wire: Gijs Bakker, head of the masters school at Design Academy Eindhoven, is leaving after 25 years, the school has announced. His departure this week coincided with graduation week for masters students and was followed by the resignation of the heads of all three masters courses. More

Marcus Fairs | 7 July 2012 | 2 comments
News

News

Design Academy Eindhoven masters heads resign

Dezeen Wire: the heads of all three masters courses at Design Academy Eindhoven in the Netherlands have resigned following a disagreement with the school over educational reform. More

Marcus Fairs | 6 July 2012 | 21 comments
News

News

Dezeen number one in The Independent's 10 best architecture blogs

Dezeen Wire: Dezeen has been placed first in a list of the 10 best architecture blogs compiled by UK newspaper The Independent. More

Rose Etherington | 5 July 2012 | 6 comments
Architecture

Architecture

The Shard opens tomorrow

Renzo Piano's London skyscraper The Shard will be officially inagurated tomorrow, followed by a five-minute laser show projected onto its 310-metre-high facade. More

Amy Frearson | 4 July 2012 | 1 comment
Design

Design

Sergio Pininfarina 1926-2012

Dezeen Wire: Sergio Pininfarina, the Italian car designer who worked for brands including Ferrari, Maserati and Lancia, has died aged 85 (via Reuters). Pininfarina worked at and later ran the family-run Pininfarina design studio from 1950 until 2006, working on models including the Ferrari Testarossa, Alfa Romeo Giulietta Spider and Bentley Azure.

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Marcus Fairs | 3 July 2012 | 11 comments
News

News

"Dutch construction market still worsening; France and UK quite stable" - Arch-Vision

Dezeen Wire: the latest report from Rotterdam research agency Arch-Vision shows that the construction industries in Spain, Italy and the Netherlands remain in decline, but that markets remain stable in France and the UK, and have improved in Germany. More

Amy Frearson | 2 July 2012 | Leave a comment
Lighting

Lighting

"When cliché grows out of distinction" - New York Times

Dezeen Wire: design critic Alice Rawsthorn describes how the famous Arco lamp by Achille and Pier Giacomo Castiglioni has become a cliché for precisely the reasons that made it great - New York Times
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Rose Etherington | 2 July 2012 | Leave a comment
Architecture

Architecture

RCA architecture course to move away from "paper architecture" - new dean

Dezeen Wire: new Royal College of Art dean of architecture Alex de Rijke will steer students away from proposing unrealisable "paper architecture" and instead focus on how their ideas could be built (+ movie). More

Dan Howarth | 1 July 2012 | 19 comments
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News

Appeal for help to furnish a domestic and sexual violence drop-in centre

Dezeen Wire: Newham Borough Council are appealing to designers and brands to help them furnish a drop-in centre for victims of domestic and sexual violence during the Olympic Games next month. More

Amy Frearson | 29 June 2012 | Leave a comment
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News

Oliver Wainwright joins the Guardian as architecture and design critic

Dezeen Wire: journalist Oliver Wainwright has revealed on Twitter that he will be the new architecture and design critic at UK newspaper the Guardian.

Wainwright, who is currently the features editor at UK architecture weekly Building Design, will take over from Jonathan Glancey, who left the role in February.

Amy Frearson | 29 June 2012 | Leave a comment
News

News

TED Prize winners announced

The first five winners of this year's TED Prize for urban innovation have been announced. Recipients include London design studio 00:/ for its project WikiHouse, which involves the construction of wooden houses from a downloaded kit of parts. More

Dan Howarth | 29 June 2012 | Leave a comment
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News

Architects donate work to charity auction

Dezeen Wire: Renzo Piano, Frank Gehry and Kengo Kuma are among more than 70 architects and designers who have donated drawings, paintings and other works to an auction for San Francisco-based charity Architecture for Humanity.

Buyers have until June 29 to bid on the lots, which range from sketches on the backs of napkins to watercolours and digital prints.

Emilie Chalcraft | 27 June 2012 | Leave a comment
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News

Liverpool risks losing UNESCO World Heritage status

UNESCO has added Liverpool to the "in danger" list for possible removal of its World Heritage status. In March the city's council approved a £5.5 billion waterfront redevelopment – BBC.

Emilie Chalcraft | 27 June 2012 | 2 comments
Architecture

Architecture

Workload drops for US architects - AIA Billings Index

Dezeen Wire: the latest American Institute of Architects’ Architecture Billings Index shows workloads for U.S. architects fell sharply in May to 45.8; anything below 50 indicates a decrease in demand. It is the first time the index has dropped below 50 in five months.

In contrast, the latest RIBA Future Trends Survey shows the workload index for UK architects has seen a significant increase compared to this time last year. More

Emilie Chalcraft | 27 June 2012 | Leave a comment
Architecture

Architecture

"Upward trend for architects' workloads continues" - RIBA Future Trends Survey

Dezeen Wire: the latest RIBA Future Trends Survey shows that the workload index for UK architects has seen a significant increase compared to this time last year. More

Dan Howarth | 27 June 2012 | Leave a comment
Architecture

Architecture

Álvaro Siza awarded Golden Lion for Venice Architecture Biennale

Dezeen Wire: Portuguese architect Álvaro Siza Vieira is to be awarded the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the opening of the 13th International Architecture Biennale in Venice on 29 August. More

Amy Frearson | 27 June 2012 | Leave a comment
Architecture

Architecture

Big Ben's tower to be renamed Elizabeth Tower

Dezeen Wire: the famous tower nicknamed Big Ben at the Houses of Parliament, which is officially called the Palace of Westminster, in London is to be renamed Elizabeth Tower in honour of the queen's 60 year-reign. - BBC

Rose Etherington | 26 June 2012 | 3 comments
Architecture

Architecture

Four World Trade Center tops out

Dezeen Wire: the final steel beam has been put in place at Four World Trade Center, the first rebuilt tower on the site of the September 11 attacks in New York City. The 298-metre, 72-storey tower was designed by Japanese architect Fumihiko Maki and has been under construction since 2008.

Ground Zero is also home to two fountains sunk into the site of the former Twin Towers, designed by architect Michael Arad and landscape architect Peter Walker. Watch an animation of the the fountains here.

The unfinished Freedom Tower nearby is already the tallest building in the city, set to reach 1,776 feet on completion.

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Emilie Chalcraft | 26 June 2012 | Leave a comment