Dezeenwire: The Guardian reports that Prince Charles tried to persuade property developers to drop Jean Nouvel as architect of a £500 million office and shopping centre next to St Paul’s cathedral in London. The Guardian (more…)
Dezeenwire: Building Design magazine reports that former Architectural Review editor Paul Finch has been appointed chair of the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (CABE). BDonline
Dezeenwire: architect Will Alsop is to leave Alsop Architects but will continue to work as a consultant to the company – bdonline
Dezeenwire: Jonathan Glancey reflects on this year’s Stirling Prize shortlist – The Guardian. Related: see our story announcing the shortlisted buildings.
Dezeenwire: The Los Angeles Times reports the death of celebrated architectural photographer Julius Shulman at his home in Los Angeles yesterday, aged 98.
“Julius Shulman, whose luminous photographs of homes and buildings brought fame to a number of mid-20th century Modernist architects and made him a household name in the architectural world, died Wednesday night,” writes Claudia Luther. LA Times
Dezeenwire: Alice Rawsthorn reviews Telling Tales, an exhibition of story-telling design which opened at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London yesterday. New York Times Related: see Dezeen’s story about the exhibition.
Dezeenwire: The Guardian presents a video of Zaha Hadid’s Bach Chamber Music Hall in Manchester including an interview with the architect – The Guardian Related: see Dezeen’s story about the project
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Dezeenwire: U2’s latest tour, 360°, kicked off at Camp Nou in Barcelona last night with singer Bono wearing a leather jacket containing 240 lasers and designed by Moritz Waldemeyer. More info and a video on Waldemeyer’s blog.
See also our earlier stories on Waldemeyer’s digital costume collaborations with OK Go and Hussein Chalayan.
Dezeenwire: Sunday Times architecture critic Hugh Pearman has posted his review of Bernard Tschumi’s new Acropolis Museum in Athens on his website – www.hughpearman.com
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