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We’re taking a look back at our most widely read stories for each month of the year and July‘s favourite was a speed boat by Zaha Hadid, plus the news was full of the London 2012 Olympics.

Thomas Heatherwick’s London 2012 Olympic Cauldron sweeps into second place, unveiled at the opening ceremony of the London 2012 Olympics.

Reaching third place, the Butterfly Loft Apartment in West London by Tigg Coll Architects has a staircase with a glass balustrade and open treads.

Slotting into number four is House of Cedar in Osaka, designed by Suga Atelier, with a transparent facade and timber framing.

Winding up our July stories is Stacking Green by Vietnamese architects Vo Trong Nghia, a house in Ho Chi Minh City with a vertical garden.

The London 2012 Olympics brought plenty of architecture and design news, with Zaha Hadid under fire for restricted views at the Aquatics Centre (above) and denied a ticket to attend. There was also controversy over the marketing rules for architects of Olympic projects and Heatherwick’s cauldron stole the show at the opening ceremony. See our interactive photo of the Olympic Park here and all our stories about design for the London 2012 Olympics here.

Meanwhile the Design Academy Eindhoven was in turmoil with head of the masters school Gijs Bakker (above) retiring from the role just as the heads of all three masters courses resigned following a disagreement with the school over educational reform. The heads later returned to their posts, claiming victory in the dispute.

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We’re up to June in our 2012 review and leading our five most popular stories is a camera controlled by blinking and squinting by Royal College of Art graduate Mimi Zou.

Second place goes to Casa Grecia, a house in São Paulo with a cinema and long swimming pool by Isay Weinfeld.

Third in line is the Mountain lodge on Sognefjorden by London architects Haptic, a proposal for a cluster of lodges and a hotel in the Norwegian mountains.

Casa Besares by Arquinoma, a house in Argentina with an extra tall door, slots in at number four.

Completing our top five stories is a series of Room Portraits shot from various ceilings in Berlin by German photographer Menno Aden.

June also saw the opening of the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion in London by Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron and Chinese artist Ai Weiwei, where Dezeen interviewed both Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron.

The queen’s diamond jubilee celebrations saw Zaha Hadid made a dame in the Queen’s 2012 Birthday Honours list for services to architecture and the famous tower nicknamed Big Ben at the Palace of Westminster renamed Elizabeth Tower.

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Bjarke Ingels Group a imaginé cette tour de 130m de hauteur pour la ville de Phoenix dans l’Arizona. Ce projet, commissionné par Novawest, a été pensé afin de permettre aux touristes de se rendre dans un endroit unique pour leur permettre de profiter du paysage. Plus d’images dans la suite.