Dezeen Wire: the latest Future Trends Survey by the Royal Institute of British Architects reports little change confidence levels among UK architects in the last two months. More about "Little overall change in confidence levels" - RIBA Future Trends Survey
Dezeen Wire: a group of Palestinian business leaders are working on a Palestinian national brand and will launch the first campaigns later this year. The move coincides with an appeal for the UN to admit Palestine as a full member state - Financial Times
Dezeen Wire: as the UK government reviews design technology's status as a compulsory school subject, industrial designers Seymourpowell have released a movie featuring Paul Smith, James Dyson and others talking about the importance of design education. More about Creative Britain in Reverse? by Seymourpowell
Dezeen Wire: Nicolai Ouroussoff, outgoing architecture critic at the New York Times, reviews the Central China Television building in Beijing by Rem Koolhaas of OMA: "The forms are a reworking of classical perspective; the irregular structure is an attack on Modernist ideas about structural purity".
Read Ouroussoff's review | Read Dezeen's August 2008 story about the CCTV building More about "Koolhaas, Delirious in Beijing" - New York Times
Dezeen Wire: the semi-detached suburban house that was home to writer JG Ballard for 49 years is for sale, the Independent reports. Ballard lived in the house in Shepperton, London until his death in 2009. The property is valued at around £320,000. The Independent
More about "For sale: futurologist JG Ballard's old home. In need of modernisation" - Independent
Dezeen Wire: Organisation in Design, the Dutch company behind Ventura Lambrate design district in Milan, are taking their concept to Berlin during new trade fair Qubique from 26 to 29 October. More about Call for entries to Ventura Berlin at Qubique
Dezeen Wire: the Royal Institute of British Architects in London has published a report promoting the social and economic benefits of well-designed buildings. More about "Good Design: it all adds up" - RIBA report on benefits of good architecture
Dezeen Wire: Mexican architect Ricardo Legorreta and British sculptor Anish Kapoor are among the five laureates of this year's Praemium Imperiale arts prize, awarded by the Japan Art Association. More about Ricardo Legorreta and Anish Kapoor awarded Praemium Imperiale
Dezeen Wire: Swedish textile designer Fanny Aronsen has died of cancer aged 55. More about Fanny Aronsen 1956-2011
Dezeen Wire: The New York Times is set to name its art critic and columnist Michael Kimmelman as its new architecture critic, following the departure last month of Nicolai Ouroussoff - Chicago Tribune.
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Dezeen Wire: the UK government has set MPs a homework project over the summer to highlight British design and manufacturing icons. Examples put forward so far include toilet rolls, fish fingers and custard cream biscuits - Management Today
See the full list of products on the Guardian Datablog »
More about "Government's Made by Britain initiative takes the biscuit"- Management Today
Dezeen Wire: AA student Aditya Aachi has been awarded the 2011 Foster + Partners Prize for a sanitation infrastructure concept in Haiti, which was severely damaged by an earthquake in 2010. More about 2011 Foster + Partners prize awarded to AA School student for Haiti proposals
Dezeen Wire: the world's longest sea bridge has opened in eastern China, spanning 22.6 miles across Qingdao Jiaozhou Bay - Xinhua Net
Dezeen Wire: co-founder of London's Design Museum Terence Conran has donated a cash gift of £7.5 million towards developing the museum's new home in south London. More about Terence Conran makes major gift to the Design Museum
Dezeen Wire: the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) have announced 25 new additions to the World Heritage List, including the Fagus Factory by Walter Gropius as reported yesterday, but deferred an application for the inclusion of 19 buildings by Modernist architect Le Corbusier, referring the decision to the next committee meeting.
See the full list of accepted applications here.
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Dezeen Wire: Spiegel online reports that Walter Gropius' pioneering 1911 Fagus Factory at Alfeld in Lower Saxony, Germany, will be added to the UNESCO World Heritage List.
UNESCO is still deliberating whether to add works by Le Corbusier to the list. Via Spiegel online
More about "Modernist Icon Joins UNESCO Heritage List" - Spiegel online
Dezeen Wire: The Telegraph has confirmed that UK magazine Design Week is to close, as reported by Dezeen earlier today. New Media Age magazine will also close, although the websites of both titles will continue.
Dezeen understands that Design Week editor Lynda Relph-Knight and most of her editorial team have been made redundant. Read The Telegraph's story | Read our earlier story
More about "Centaur Media axes print versions of New Media Age and Design Week" - Telegraph
Dezeen Wire: UK design magazine Design Week is to close this week, Dezeen understands. It is thought that the title will continue as a web-only publication at www.designweek.co.uk.
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Dezeen Wire: thirty UK branches of furniture chain Habitat are to go into administration as part of a deal involving the sale of the brand and the three London stores, the BBC reports.
More about "Habitat stores enter administration as part of sale" - BBC
Dezeen Wire: the Design Council in London is publishing a webcast and Twitter summary of Design for Growth, its 2011 Design Summit, taking place this morning and featuring designers including Jonathan Ive of Apple, Ian Callum of Jaguar and Tom Hulme of IDEO. Follow the summit here from 10.35am
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