Dezeen Wire: the Royal Institute of British Architects has published two new guides aimed at encouraging architects to help improve local communities through urban planning and cooperation with residents. More about "RIBA urges architects to embrace localism" - new guides promote community involvement
Dezeen Wire: art and architecture critics have been offering their opinions on Building the Revolution: Soviet Art and Architecture, 1915-1935, an exhibition presenting the revolutionary imagery of communist Russia at the Royal Academy in London. More about Critics' reactions to Building the Revolution: Soviet Art and Architecture, 1915-1935
Dezeen Wire: in her latest article for The New York Times design critic Alice Rawsthorn strikes a blow against the current trend for naming products with confusing, forgettable or misleading monikers. More about "The Power, or Folly, of a Product’s Name" - The New York Times
Dezeen Wire: architecture critic Jay Merrick has praised the £22 million extension of Cardiff's Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama by BFLS Architects, explaining that the spaces perform functionally as well as succeeding in "generating an atmosphere that can only be described as happening." More about Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama extension is "dazzling"- The Independent
Dezeen Wire: The Guardian's architecture critic Jonathan Glancey explains that the much-criticised ArcelorMittal Orbit sculpture, designed by Anish Kapoor and structural engineer Cecil Balmond for next year's Olympics in London, has been an easy target for jokes but that it demonstrates Britain's manufacturing capabilities and says it "may even effect buildings of the future just as the Eiffel Tower and the Crystal Palace did" - The Guardian
Dezeen Wire: British manufacturer Dyson has expressed disappointment about the lack of protection offered to British designers following the loss of a design rights case against Chinese-owned Vax, who Dyson claims have copied one of their popular models. More about "We need to better protect British design"- James Dyson
Dezeen Wire: British curator and writer Beatrice Galilee has been named as the chief curator for the third edition of the Lisbon Architecture Triennale, which will take place between October 2013 and January 2014. More about Lisbon Architecture Triennale 2013 appoints new chief curator
Dezeen Wire: Australian industrial designer Marc Newson has been announced as the recipient of the Lucky Strike Designer Award 2011, which includes a prize of €50,000.
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Dezeen Wire: architect Frank Gehry has confirmed that he has submitted designs for projects in China and India as difficult economic conditions in the US have led to a decline in development - Bloomberg More about "Frank Gehry turns to Asia for architecture projects as U.S. growth slows"- Bloomberg
Dezeen Wire: the ceremony for next year's Pritzker Prize for architecture will take place in Beijing, the first time the ceremony has ever been held in China. More about 2012 Pritzker Architecture Prize ceremony to be held in China
Dezeen Wire: fifteen international design teams are in with a chance of redesigning one of three sites on Washington's National Mall following the announcement of the shortlist for the National Mall Design Competition. More about Shortlist announced for Washington's National Mall Design Competition
Dezeen Wire: 11 design teams including OMA, Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Zaha Hadid, Grimshaw Architects and HOK have been shortlisted in a competition to redesign the public spaces at Chicago's Navy Pier development. More about OMA, Zaha Hadid, BIG, Grimshaw and HOK on shortlist for Chicago's Navy Pier
Dezeen Wire: architecture critics have been offering their thoughts on Daniel Libeskind's divisive Military History Museum in Dresden, which opened earlier this month. More about Critics' reactions to Libeskind's Military History Museum
Dezeen Wire: a feature-length documentary outlining the dangers of poor urban planning and including contributions from leading architects such as Rem Koolhaas and Norman Foster has been released by film director Gary Hustwit. More about Urbanized documentary claims that architects are not the solution to urbanisation
Dezeen Wire: plans for branches of the Guggenheim, Louvre and other museums in Abu Dhabi by leading architects have been dealt a blow by delays to a key construction contract, according to a report in today's Financial Times. More about "Abu Dhabi's cultural vision suffers setback"- Financial Times
Dezeen Wire: Cape Town in South Africa has been named World Design Capital 2014 by the International Council of Societies of Industrial Design (Icsid). More about Cape Town named World Design Capital 2014
Dezeen Wire: London's Barbican Art Gallery will broadcast a live stream of a debate featuring all seven partners of architecture practice OMA in public conversation for the first time ever at 7pm this evening. More about Barbican to stream live OMA debate this evening
Dezeen Wire: the Design Council in the UK is to appoint a new director for Design Council CABE following the announcement that Diane Haigh has left the post. More about Design Council CABE director steps down
Dezeen Wire: in her latest article for The New York Times, design correspondent Alice Rawsthorn profiles Studio H, a humanitarian design project has spent a year teaching design skills to school children in a deprived part of North Carolina - The New York Times
Rawsthorn describes the process that Studio H founders Emily Pilloton and Matthew Miller undertook with the pupils – providing basic skills that resulted in the creation of a 2,000-square-foot pavilion at a local farmers market – and outlines the benefits of teaching design to students at a formative age.
See links to more articles by Alice Rawsthorn here.
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Dezeen Wire: Dezeen reader Salomé Francpourmoi has emailed us her analysis of the gender and race of designers whose portraits we've published on our homepage in the last seven months which, she says, shows a predominance of white males. More about Gender and race on Dezeen