Dezeenwire: architect Richard Rogers has attacked Prince Charles' role in the scrapping of his design for Chelsea barracks in London as "an abuse of power" and called for an inquiry. The Guardian Related: Elite Architects attack Prince Charles
Dezeenwire: the winners of the D&AD Awards 2009 were announced last night. awards.dandad.org/2009/
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Dezeenwire: The Art Newspaper reports strong sales from some galleries at Design Miami/Basel this week, with Brad Pitt and Roman Abramovich among buyers. The Art Newspaper
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Dezeen events: Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs moderates the Design Talks at Design Miami/Basel today and tomorrow with designers Nacho Carbonell, Tomáš Gabzdil Libertiny, Peter Marigold, Shay Alkalay and Yael Mer (Raw-Edges) and Maarten Baas. More about Design Talks at Design Miami/Basel
Dezeenwire: the Guggenheim Museum and Google Sketchup have launched Design It: Shelter Competition, "a global, online initiative that invites the public to use Google Earth and Google SketchUp to create and submit designs for virtual 3-D shelters for a location of their choice anywhere on Earth." Details here
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Dezeenwire: Alice Rawsthorn reports from the Venice Biennale on artists turning their hands to interior design. New York Times
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Dezeenwire: The Guardian presents a gallery showing how everyday designs including Cornflake packs and flight attendant uniforms have changed over the years. The Guardian
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Dezeenwire: Dutch designer Maarten Baas has put movies of his Real Time exhibition held in Milan this year on YouTube. Sweepers Clock movie. Analog Clock movie. Grandfather Clock movie.
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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
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Dezeenwire: Alice Rawsthorn on how digital technology is signalling the demise of design's most-quoted mantra. New York Times
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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
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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
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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 about Design Miami/Basel announce Designers of the Future 2009
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
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Dezeenwire: The Guardian's architecture critic Jonathan Glancey reviews Prince Charles' speech at the RIBA last night. The Guardian
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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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Dezeenwire: in his speech at the Royal Institute of British Architects in London tonight, Prince Charles will tell that "communities should be key to their work with the needs of locals put first." Sky News Background to this story: Elite architects attack Prince Charles
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Dezeenwire: Norman Foster and Richard Rogers' skyscraper designs for Ground Zero in New York could be scuppered by the credit crunch. The Guardian
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