We've updated our blog for the Design Museum's Zaha Hadid exhibition with new content, including photos and movie footage of Metapolis II, a ballet featuring stage designs by Hadid that opens at the Lincoln Center in New York next week (above and below). More about Zaha Hadid blog update
Slovenian architects OFIS have completed two apartment projects, including a block in a mountain village near Ljubljana that is based on local Alpine hayracks (above). More about Hayrack Apartments by OFIS Arhitekti
OMA in the Middle East: Office for Metropolitan Architecture have designed a new international airport for Jeddah in Saudi Arabia. More about Jeddah International Airport by OMA
OMA in the Middle East: RAK Gateway is a masterplan by Office for Metropolitan Architecture for a large urban development at Ras Al Khaimah, the northernmost of the United Arab Emirates. More about RAK Gateway by OMA
OMA in the Middle East: Office for Metropolitan Architecture has sent images and text of its Kuwait Al-Rai Development Masterplan - a study for a major mixed development in Kuwait City. More about Kuwait Al-Rai masterplan by OMA
J Mayer H architects have completed an extension to the Danfoss Universe science park in Nordburg, Denmark. More about Danfoss Universe extension by J Mayer H
We've just updated our Zaha Hadid blog with a time-lapse movie showing the construction of the Lilas installation at the Serpentine Gallery (see previous post). The blog also features loads more exclusive content including a video interview with Zaha and a film of the Zaha Hadid exhibition opening party at the Design Museum.
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Time to wind up the Zaha conspiracy theorists again... here are some photos of Lilas, the architects' installation at the Serpentine Gallery in London, which opens to the public today. More about Lilas by Zaha Hadid Architects
Dutch architect Erick van Egeraat has won a competition for the new National Library and Bank in Kazan in the Russian republic of Tatarstan. More about Erick van Egeraat in Tatarstan
In our final post on Wall House by FAR frohn&rojas, here is a full description of the project from the architects plus drawings, plans and models (plus some of Cristobal Palma's photos again to help make sense of it): More about Wall House by FAR frohn&rojas architects 4
Here is the third and final set of photographs of Wall House in Chile by FAR frohn&rojas architects, this time showing the interior of the dwelling (we'll be showing plans, drawings and models in the following post). More about Wall House by FAR frohn&rojas architects 3
Here are more of photographer Cristobal Palma's images of Wall House by architects FAR frohn&rojas. More about Wall House by FAR frohn&rojas architects 2
Architectural photographer Cristobal Palma has sent us another set of photos from South America, this time of a project in Chile that is a mixture of cave, house and tent.
Construction work is due to start in September on VitraHaus, a new showroom at the Vitra Campus at Weil am Rhein in Germany. More about VitraHaus by Herzog & de Meuron
David Chipperfield Architects have presented new designs for the entrance building on Museum Island in Berlin. More about James Simon Gallery by David Chipperfield
Net Bridge is a five-lane pedestrian bridge that will serve as a new gateway linking central Beirut to the marina. More about Net Bridge by Atelier Hapsitus
Dezeen is coming live from the Design Museum in London today, where it's press preview day for the Zaha Hadid - Architecture and Design exhibition. The exhibition opens to the public tomorrow. More about Live from the Design Museum
Here are some better-quality images of Asymptote's 166 Perry Street residential building in New York, which is just about to go on site. More about More images of 166 Perry Street by Asymptote
Work is about to start on the construction of 166 Perry Street, an apartment building in New York designed by Asymptote. More about 166 Perry Street by Asymptote
The citizens of Basel, Switzerland, have voted by a clear majority against architect Zaha Hadid's proposed Neues Stadt-Casino, meaning the auditorium will now not be built. More about Basel rejects Zaha Hadid casino