Dezeenwire: Den Norske Opera & Ballett by Snøhetta and Open-Air-Library by KARO* with Architektur+Netzwerk have been jointly awarded the 2010 European Prize for Urban Public Space.
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Dezeenwire: Japanese architects Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa of SANAA have been chosen as the 2010 Laureates of the Pritzker Architecture Prize, the prize's website has announced.
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Dezeenwire: graphic designer Neville Brody has been appointed head of the department of communication art & design at the Royal College of Art in London. See below for more info. More about Neville Brody is new head of communication design at Royal College of Art
Dezeenwire: the Museum of Modern Art in New York has taken the @ symbol into its collection - MoMA
Dezeenwire: Citizen Architect, a 60-minute documentary about late architect Samuel Mockbee of pioneering American undergraduate programme Rural Studio, premieres at the SXSW film festival in Austin, Texas on Wednesday 17 March. www.citizenarchitectfilm.com
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Dezeenwire: Observer architecture critic Rowan Moore reports on Make It Right, actor Brad Pitt's project to rebuilt a district of New Orleans destroyed by Hurricane Katrina - The Observer
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Dezeenwire: in an interview with the Sunday Times, engineer and inventor James Dyson reveals he is to stand down as chairman of Dyson and talks about the Ingenious Britain report commissioned by the Conservative Party, in which Dyson sets out ways to make Britain a leading high-tech exporter - Sunday Times
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Dezeenwire: Justin McGuirk, editor of icon magazine, launches his new blog for The Guardian with an attack on designer Ron Arad, whose Ron Arad: Restless exhibition opened at the Barbican recently - The Guardian
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Dezeenwire: Jonathan Ive, senior vice president of industrial design at Apple, and other key Apple staff explain the design of the iPad in a video on Apple's website.
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Dezeenwire: The Guardian presents a slideshow of the last collection by fashion designer Alexander McQueen, who committed suicide last month aged 40. The collection was presented posthumously by his studio at Paris fashion week - The Guardian.
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Dezeenwire: Bruce J Graham, the architect who designed America's tallest building, Sears Tower in Chicago, has died at the age of 84 - Press Association
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Dezeenwire: the Design Museum in London have announced the category winners for the 2010 Brit Insurance Design Awards. See press release below. More about 2010 Brit Insurance Design Awards category winners announced
Dezeenwire: the Design Museum in London have selected seven studios for the shortlist to design their new home in a 1960's RMJM-designed building in west London, including David Chipperfield, Caruso St John and John Pawson - Architects Journal
Jonathan Glancey interviews architect IM Pei, who was recently awarded the Royal Gold Medal for architecture. More about The Pei master - Guardian
Dezeenwire: architect Ole Scheeren is to leave Office for Metropolitan Architecture and establish his own studio - see press release below:
Dezeenwire: architect Alessandro Mendini returns as editor-in-chief of Domus magazine, 30 years after he first edited the Italian architecture and design title. He is to edit eleven issues, commencing with April 2010. See press release below. More about Alessandro Mendini returns to Domus
Dezeenwire: former Evening Standard architecture writer Rowan Moore has replaced Stephen Bayley as The Observer's architecture critic, starting off with a review of SANAA's Rolex Learning Centre in Lausanne - The Observer. See Dezeen's story about the building here.
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Dezeenwire: Design Academy Eindhoven is collaborating with auction house Sotheby's to present its first exhibition of graduate work in the UK. More about Design Academy Eindhoven at Sotheby's
Dezeenwire: Dutch designer Jurgen Bey has been appointed as director of the Sandberg Institute in Amsterdam. He is due to take up the post from 1 September 2010 - Sandberg Institute
Dezeenwire: a documentary film about the life and work of architect Norman Foster has premiered at the International Film Festival Berlin - see press release below. More about How much does your building weigh, Mr. Foster?