This week OMA were in the news with the opening of a new exhibition of their work at the Barbican in London and the completion of their Maggie's cancer caring centre in Glasgow. We were given an private guided tour of the exhibition by Rem Koolhaas and interviews with other OMA partners will appear soon on Dezeen Screen. More about This week on Dezeen
Dezeen Space: the inventors of Sugru are bringing their pop-up hack-station to Dezeen Space on Sunday 9 October to do a demo and giveaway of their plastic modelling clay. More about Sugru pop-up and giveaway at 13:00 this Sunday at Dezeen Space
Dezeen Wire: historians and campaigners are warning that the 358-year-old Taj Mahal near the city of Agra in northern India will collapse in two to five years if urgent action is not taken to maintain rotting wooden foundations - The Daily Mail
In the first of a series of movies filmed by Dezeen at the opening of OMA/Progress at the Barbican in London earlier this week, OMA co-founder Rem Koolhaas gives us a private tour of the show.
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Dezeen Platform: design graduate Clinton Sheldon brings a series of products made of components salvaged from the factory of British furniture company Ercol to our micro-exhibition Dezeen Platform at Dezeen Space today. More about Today at Dezeen Platform: Clinton Sheldon
Designers Not Tom have created an installation where coloured dye rises by capillary action out of paint tins and along tree branches wrapped in wool. More about Wool Modern Installation by Not Tom
Vienna Design Week 2011: a rotating arm deposits spirals of quartz sand on the showroom floor at crystal company Lobmeyr in Vienna this week, thanks to Canadian designer Philippe Malouin. More about Time Elapsed by Philippe Malouin and Lobmeyr
Foster + Partners have unveiled designs for an new international airport in Kuwait. More about Kuwait International Airport by Foster + Partners
Competition: we've teamed up with Australian company Makedo to give away ten sets of their reusable connector system for creatively recycling waste materials. More about Competition: ten Makedo construction sets to be won
Architect Norman Foster has paid tribute to Apple founder and former CEO Steve Jobs, who has died aged 56.
Foster + Partners are working on the new Apple campus to be built in Cupertino, California, and released images of the design just a week before Jobs resigned as CEO of Apple in August. Read Foster's full statement below More about Norman Foster pays tribute to Steve Jobs
Dezeen Wire: Organisation in Design are now accepting applications from designers and companies wishing to exhibit at Ventura Lambrate 2012 in Milan next April. More about Ventura Lambrate 2012 call for visitors
Dezeen Platform: WRAP magazine launch their latest issue and two new product ranges at Dezeen Platform at Dezeen Space today. More about Today at Dezeen Platform: Wrap Magazine
Dezeen Wire: Steve Jobs, co-founder and former CEO of Apple, has died, the company has announced. He was 56. Apple's homepage is today dedicated to a photo of Jobs (above) and, instead of product news, hosts a short statement which starts "Apple has lost a visionary and creative genius, and the world has lost an amazing human being".
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Competition: we're giving away five pairs of tickets for a lecture by industrial designer Patricia Moore at D&AD in London on Wednesday 12 October. More about Competition: five pairs of tickets to D&AD Patricia Moore lecture to be won
Dezeen Platform: in this interview we filmed at Dezeen Space, designer Jólan van der Wiel explains how his series of stools are shaped by magnets and gravity. Watch the movie »
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British designers BarberOsgerby present seven sculptural pieces based on boats, planes and satellites at Haunch of Venison gallery in London. More about Ascent by Edward Barber and Jay Osgerby at Haunch of Venison
Coinciding with the OMA retrospective opening at the Barbican in London this week, here are some photos of the Maggie’s Centre for cancer care that the firm just completed in Glasgow. More about Maggie's Gartnavel by OMA
Dezeen Wire: architecture critic Kieran Long has written a damning summary of the Olympic Park Legacy Company's plans to regenerate the Olympic site following the games in 2012. In an article in the London Evening Standard Long states: "It seems the OPLC has no idea what the Olympic Park could be, apart from a leisure landscape for visitors and a recreation space for families."
Subsequently on Twitter he commented "OPLC 'not happy with the tone of my piece' in today's Evening Standard," before inviting readers to make up their own minds.
Read all of our stories on the London Olympics here.
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An exhibition documenting the working processes of international architecture practice OMA opens at the Barbican Art Gallery in London tomorrow. Update: watch Rem Koolhaas give us a private tour of the show on Dezeen Screen. More about OMA/Progress at the Barbican
Dezeen Platform: in this movie we filmed at Dezeen Space, designer Jan Rose talks about his furniture that's knitted from steel wire and boiled leather. Watch the movie »
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