Dezeen Wire: architects Office for Metropolitan Architecture have been commissioned to design the new strategy and identity for Hong Kong transport authority MTR, including two new stations. More
Dezeenwire: Alice Rawsthorn takes a look at the colour trends companies have forecast for this year and why they're likely to be a self-fulfilling prophecy - New York Times
Dezeenwire: former Nokia CEO Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo has been appointed as chairman of the committee for World Design Capital Helsinki 2012. See press release below. More
Dezeenwire: Italian design brand Skitsch have sacked their CEO Renato Preti. See press release below.
Dezeenwire: Alice Rawsthorn reviews Sustainism Is the New Modernism, a book by cultural theorist Michiel Schwarz and designer Joost Elffers to be released next month - New York Times
Dezeen Wire: critic Stephen Bayley is to chair the London Design Museum's Brit Insurance Designs of the Year awards this year. See press release below More
Dezeenwire: industrial designer James Dyson is to succeed Terence Conran as Provost of London's Royal College of Art. See press release below. More
Dezeenwire: UK design organisation Hidden Art is in danger of losing half its funding and may be forced to close. See press release below. Update 30/08/11: Hidden Art have announced they will close at the end of September 2011. More
Dezeenwire: architect Norman Foster is working on designs for Apple's new campus in Cupertino, California - El Economista (in Spanish) via Gizmodo
Dezeenwire: Marianne Goebl (below) has been appointed director of design collectors' fair Design Miami/. More
Dezeenwire: the Victoria and Albert Museum in London have announced a shortlist of seven studios to design an extension to the museum on Exhibition Road - see press release below. More information on the competition website. More
Dezeenwire: British furniture designer Robin Day has died aged 95 - Guardian
Dezeenwire: the latest RIBA Future Trends Survey suggests architects are becoming more optimistic. See press release below. More
Dezeenwire: the RIBA in London have opposed a bid by the Prince's Foundation to take over the design review role currently fulfilled by the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (CABE), which is to close in the wake of last week's government spending review. See press release below.
See also: CABE closed down in spending review
Dezeenwire: French designer Arik Levy is to be guest of honour at Stockholm Furniture Fair in February 2011. See press release below.
See also:
All our stories about Arik Levy
Guest of Honour 2010 Paul Smith
Stockholm 2010
Dezeenwire: the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (CABE) is to close as a result of the Department for Culture, Media and Sport withdrawing its funding - The Architects' Journal
Dezeenwire: the latest RIBA Future Trends Survey indicates the architecture profession is still suffering downward trends in work levels and underemployment. See press release below. More
Dezeenwire: Peter Zumthor is rumoured to be the designer of next year's Serpentine Pavilion - Londonist
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Dezeenwire: Antilia, the "world's most expensive house", has been completed in Mumbai, India - Time
Dezeenwire: structural engineer Cecil Balmond has left Arup to found his own firm - Architectural Record