Dezeen Wire: New York Times critic Alice Rawsthorn previews the design highs and lows of the coming year, including Thomas Heatherwick's new double-decker bus for London (high) and the logo for the 2012 Olympic games (low) - New York Times
Dezeen Wire: Jonathan Ive, senior vice president of industrial design at Apple, has been awarded a KBE on the 2012 New Year Honours list, published today, for services to design and enterprise.
Australian designer Marc Newson has been awarded a CBE for services to design in the UK and worldwide.
Architect John McAslan and founder of Open-City Victoria Thornton were both awarded an OBE for services to architecture.
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Dezeen Wire: Mexican architect Ricardo Legorreta has died at the age of 80. He was awarded the Praemium Imperiale earlier this year.
Norwegian architects Snøhetta have submitted plans for a Maggie’s Centre to provide cancer care facilities in Aberdeen, Scotland. More
English Heritage has announced that the 1986 Lloyd's of London building designed by Richard Rogers is to be given Grade I listed status. More details on the Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners website.
Dezeen Wire: a team of Dutch designers including Hella Jongerius, architect Rem Koolhaas and graphic designer Irma Boom have been selected to re-design the North Delegates’ Lounge at the United Nations headquarters in New York. More
Dezeen Wire: a prototype of Thomas Heatherwick's redesign for the iconic Routemaster bus was unveiled in London this morning. More
Dezeen Wire: retail expert Mary Portas has published a report on the future of the high street. The review was commissioned by the British government. Read the full report here or check a summary of Portas' 28 recommendations here.
Dezeen Wire: Dutch architects MVRDV have received threatening emails and angry phone calls after revealing proposals for skyscrapers that resemble the exploding World Trade Centre on 9/11.
We published the project first on Dezeen, prompting outrage from many of our readers. One declared the images “insensitive and offensive” while another claimed “this is like 9/11 freeze framed”. More
Dezeen Wire: Grafik magazine is to cease publication once again. The graphic design magazine only reopened under new ownership in February this year after its previous owners went into administration in June 2010.
Read a statement from the magazine's editorial team and owners Woodbridge & Rees here and read critic Rick Poynor's take on the news here.
Dezeen Wire: architect Steven Holl has been named as the winner of this year's AIA Gold Medal. See all our stories about his work here. More
British architect Terry Farrell has unveiled conceptual proposals to convert London’s Battersea Power Station into a park, which oppose existing plans for a mixed-used development by New York architect Rafael Viñoly. More
Dezeen Wire: in this movie filmed by cultural collective Pacific Standard Time, rapper Ice Cube explains his love of architecture and how the work of renowned architects Charles and Ray Eames inspires him. More
Dezeen Wire: British designer Tom Dixon has partnered with Ambra Medda and Martina Mondadori to announce the launch of MOST, a new centre of activity at the Museo Nazionale della Scienza e della Tecnologia during the Salone Internazionale del Mobile in Milan next April. More
Dezeen Wire: the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat in Chicago have published a report predicting the 20 tallest buildings in the world by the year 2020, including eight over 600 metres high. Read the full online report here. More
Dezeen Wire: The Portland Public Service Building by Michael Graves & Associates has been added to the USA's National Register of Historic Places. More
A sci-fi animation in which a downtrodden robot workforce battles with police against a backdrop of dystopian architecture is one of the winners of the RIBA President’s Medals Student Awards, announced this evening. More
Dezeen Wire: Oscar-winning film maker Bruce Beresford will direct a forthcoming movie about iconic American architect Frank Lloyd Wright - The Hollywood Reporter
The film will be centred around the architect’s Wisconsin home Taliesin, after which the film is to be named.
Here's a selection of projects by Dutch architect Herman Hertzberger, who was named as this year's Royal Gold Medal recipient this morning. More
Dezeen Wire: Dutch architect Herman Hertzberger has been named as the recipient of this year's Royal Gold Medal for architecture. More