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Leeds-based Thompson Brand Partners has created a new identity for the UK’s National Railway Museum, the largest rail museum in the world

According to Thompson, “The new logo has been designed to reflect the direction the museum is moving in. It is modern, simple, easy to read and dynamic with a clear indication of speed and momentum. It is based on the many angled slashes that can be found in the iconography and architecture of railway throughout history. It also makes subtle reference to rails.”

As well as the logo itself, new typefaces, colours and imagery will be applied across all uniforms, signage and so on at the main museum in York and its Shildon site in the coming months.

The museum’s previous logo recalled the bygone days of steam and great British railway companies with its three-dimensional lettering. While the new look lacks the charm of its predecessor (and may not look so great on merchandise), it’s clean and simple and unlikely to date rapidly. It will probably invite criticism for being too obvious or “easy” a solution but, as opposed to some of the other museum identities we have seen in recent times, it is not trying too hard or making a conceptual promise that its execuition can’t deliver. It’s a museum about rail, past and future and the new mark does a fine job of conveying just that.

We haven’t seen anything beyond the basic mark yet, so it’s unfair to judge what the overall success of this identity might be. However, it may need some bold and imaginative applications to avoid seeming overly bland and corporate.

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German architects GMP Architekten designed three stadiums for the World Aquatics Championships currently taking place in Shanghai.

The Shanghai Oriental Sports Centre complex includes a multi-purpose stadium, a dedicated indoor aquatics centre, an outdoor swimming venue and a media centre.

Rows of aluminium sails cover the exteriors of the stadiums, which are raised up on artificial islands and surrounded by newly created lakes.

The championships are run by international swimming federation FINA and finish at the end of July.

After the event, the main stadium will be used for boxing, basketball, badminton, ice-hockey and concerts.

Celebrated sports venue architects GMP also designed three football stadiums for the FIFA World Cup in South Africa last year – see the projects »here.

More stories about sports architecture and design on Dezeen »

Photography is by Marcus Bredt.

The following information is from FMP Architekten:

Opening of the Shanghai Oriental Sports Center FINA World Swimming Championships, 16th – 31st July

The sports complex was designed and built by architects von Gerkan, Marg and Partners (gmp), who won the competitive bidding in 2008, and constructed it in under two and a half years. It consists of a hall stadium for several sports and cultural events, a natatorium (swimming hall), an outdoor swimming pool and a media centre. In keeping with a sustainable urban development policy, the SOSC was built on former industrial brownfield land along the Huangpu River. The individual venues are designed so that after the Swimming Championships, they can be used for a variety of other purposes.

Water is the overarching theme of both the park and the architecture of the stadiums and the media centre. It is the connecting element between the buildings, which stand on raised platforms in specially constructed lakes. Thus the round stadiums have a curved lakeside shore round them, while the rectangular Natatorium has a straight lakeside shore. Design affinities and a shared formal idiom and use of materials give the three stadiums structural unity. The steel structures of broad arches with large-format triangular elements made of coated aluminium sheet form double-sided curved surfaces along the frame of the sub-structures, thus evoking sails in the wind.

Hall Stadium

During the FINA World Swimming Championships, pool events and synchronized swimming championships will take place in the Hall Stadium, which later can be used for boxing matches, basketball, badminton or ice-hockey matches and concerts. The hall has a crowd-capacity of 14,000, which can be increased to 18,000 by the use of mobile seating.

The main structure of the closed building with a round ground plan consists of reinforced concrete, while the roof is a steel structure with a 170 m span with aluminium cladding. The parallel steel girders create 35 m-high arcades and include the glass façades of the encircling open foyer.

Natatorium

The Natatorium contains four pools arrayed in a row: two standard-sized, one for diving and a leisure pool. It has over 3,500 fixed seats, which will be expanded to 5,000 for the world championships, to meet FINA requirements. The swimming hall is a closed building with a rectangular ground plan, a main structure of reinforced concrete and a roof structure of sectional steel girders. The roof structure with triangular glass surfaces is around 210 m long, 120 m wide and 22 m high. Direct, intrusive sunlight is forestalled by means of narrow toplights along the beams, without preventing natural daylighting.

Outdoor pool

This swimming complex is located in the open on an artificial island and offers 2,000 fixed stadium seats. For the World Swimming Championships and other outstanding events, capacity will be increased to 5,000 seats. The competition-size diving pool and diving towers are complemented by a competition pool. As in the other stadiums, the roof structure with its external diameter of c. 130 m reflects the round ground-plan of the shell of the building. The inner diameter is around 90m. The roof trusses are carried by the building structure. A lightweight membrane between the modules provides protection against sun and rain.

Media centre

The 80 m high high-rise building is on the northern side of the sports complex. Its 15 floors include a fitness centre, conference rooms and medical care centre, plus VIP and office areas. Because of the even 8.4m grid, the building can be used flexibly. With its external shell of white, perforated aluminium panels, the building inter- prets the undulating shape of the adjacent lake.

Competition 2008 – 1st prize Design Meinhard von Gerkan and Nikolaus Goetze with Magdalene Weiss
Project leader – Chen Ying
Team – Jan Blasko, Lü Cha, Lü Miao, Jörn Ortmann, Sun Gaoyang, Yan Lüji, Jin Zhan, Fang Hua, Martin Friedrich, Fu Chen, Ilse Gull, Kong Rui, Lin Yi, Katrin Löser, Ren Yunping, Alexander Schober, Nina Svensson, Tian Jinghai, Zhang Yan, Zhou Yunkai, Zhu Honghao
Structural engineers – Schlaich Bergermann and Partners
International installations – ARUP
Landscaping – WES & Partner
Chinese partner firm – SIADR, Tongji Design Institute
Capacity, Hall stadium – 18,000 seats
Natatorium – 5,000 seats
Outdoor swimming pool – 5,000 seats
Client – Shanghai Administration of Sports
Construction period – 2009–2011

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London Olympic Stadium by Populous	Dalian Football Stadium by UNStudio	Moses Mabhida Stadium by GMP Architekten

Frith Kerr and Studio Frith have designed an extraordinary book for an extraordinary artist – the avant-garde dancer and choreographer Michael Clark

As well as being one of the foremost dancers of his generation, Clark was renowned for his collaborations with the denizens of London’s post-punk scene. In his costumes (many of which were designed by Leigh Bowery) and staging, Clark has been consistently provocative and imaginative resulting in the wealth of spectacular imagery that populates this 348-page retrospective from Violette Editions.

Clark’s idiosyncratic way with punctutation and capitalisation in the titles of his work is referenced by Kerr in a series of title pages in fluoro yellow throughout the book while the type playfully alludes to dance.

A really stunning piece of work. Michael Clark is published in September by Violette Editions, £45

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Kid Acne‘s first solo exhibition in his home town of Sheffield opens today. Such is the auspicious nature of the occasion, he’s even made a special promo trailer to go with it…

Sheffield’s Millennium Gallery is showing Kid Acne: Kill Your Darlings until October 23 and it features a range of his illustration and grafitti work, murals and sculpture.

To promote the show, Acne (who is also well known as a musician and hip hop artist) teamed up with director Dscreet and graphics team Peter & Paul to create this decidedly pagan promo film. The soundtrack to the forest-based escapades is by Cherrystones.