Dezeenwire: Associated Press interviewed architect Peter Zumthor on the eve of his receiving the Pritzker Prize in Buenos Aires this weekend. Associated Press Related: Peter Zumthor wins Pritzker Prize / Key projects by Peter Zumthor
Dezeenwire: Alice Rawsthorn on how digital technology is signalling the demise of design’s most-quoted mantra. New York Times
Dezeenwire: British designer Thomas Heatherwick talks to Steve Rose of The Guardian about recent projects, including the Creative Units at Aberystwyth Arts Centre featured in our previous story. The Guardian
Dezeenwire: Helen Kirwan-Taylor reports on the predominance of utilitarian design and craft in Milan last month. Wall Street Journal
Dezeenwire: UK architects Foster + Partners with Swedish firm Berg Arkitektkontor have won the high-profile competition to masterplan the redevelopment of the Slussen waterfront in Stockholm, Sweden. Foster + Partners
Dezeenwire: in an interview with Tom Dykhoff of The Times, architect Zaha Hadid refutes the idea that the credit crunch is killing off statement architecture. “People say it’s the end of the icon project,” she says. “Psssht.” TimesOnline See also: Dezeen stories about Zaha Hadid.
Dezeenwire: Design Miami/Basel have announced the four winners of this year’s Designers of the Future awards: Nacho Carbonell, Peter Marigold, Raw-Edges and Tomáš Gabzdil Libertiny. See press release below for more details. (more…)
Dezeenwire: The World Intellectual Property Organization has rejected a bid by Jonathan Ive, Apple’s vice president of industrial design, to prevent a London fan exploiting jonathanive.com, jonyive.com and other domain names. Bloomberg
Dezeenwire: The Guardian’s architecture critic Jonathan Glancey reviews Prince Charles’ speech at the RIBA last night. The Guardian
Dezeenwire: Bloomberg reports Prince Charles’ speech at the RIBA in London tonight, quoting: “In the world as it is now, there seems to be an awful lot more arrogance than reverence… a great deal more of the ego than humility, and a surfeit of abstracted ideology over the practical realities linked to people’s lives and the grain of their culture and identity.” Bloomberg.com
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