The citizens of Basel, Switzerland, have voted by a clear majority against architect Zaha Hadid's proposed Neues Stadt-Casino, meaning the auditorium will now not be built. More about Basel rejects Zaha Hadid casino
RCA summer show: Diffusion Vessels are a series of bowls designed by digitally recreating the fractal growth patterns of natural phenomena such as lightning and snowflakes. More about Diffusion Vessels by David Sutton
The Zaha Hadid - Architecture and Design exhibition opens at the Design Museum in London this Friday, and we've updated the exhibition blog with more material about the show and about Zaha Hadid Architects in general. More about Zaha Hadid blog update
RCA summer show: here is the first of our posts from The Great Exhibition 2007 - the Royal College of Art Summer Show, which is on at the RCA in London and a temporary venue in Kensington Gardens. More about Domestic wind turbine by Ben Storan
The Casa da Musica concert hall in Porto, Portugal, by Office for Metropolitan Architecture has won the European Award at the Royal Institute of British Architects awards, held in London tonight. More about Casa da Musica wins RIBA European award
Ostel is a new budget hotel in Berlin that celebrates Communist retro chic. More about Ostel communist-style hotel in Berlin
Designer Ilse Crawford has completed the interiors for two new restaurants at Grand Hotel Stockholm in Sweden. More about Matsalen and Matbaren by Ilse Crawford
Basel update: Milanese gallery Nilufar presented a limited edition series of Bookcase by Martino Gamper at Design Miami/Basel last week. More about Martino Gamper for Nilufar
We've finally got hold of a photo of the interior of Thomas Heatherwick's just-opened East Beach Cafe in Littlehampton, England. Just the one though. See our earlier post for more images and links.
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David Chipperfield Architects have presented new designs for the Turner Contemporary gallery in Margate, England. More about Turner Contemporary by David Chipperfield
Spanish architects Estudio Barozzi Veiga have won first prize in a competition to design the new Szczecin Philharmonie concert hall in Szczecin, Poland. More about Szczecin Philharmonie by EBV
Basel update: Galerie Kreo of Paris showed new furniture by Hella Jongerius (above) and the Bouroullec brothers (below) plus work by Front and Fernando Brizio, among others, at the Design Miami/Basel fair last week. More about Galerie Kreo at Design Miami/Basel
Developer Urban Splash has completed the first phase of Chimney Pot Park, a project to revitalise streets of unwanted century-old terraced housing in Salford, England. More about Chimney Pot Park by ShedKM and Urban Splash
Here are some more photos of East Beach Cafe in Littlehampton, England, designed by Thomas Heatherwick. More about More images of Heatherwick’s East Beach Cafe
Basel update: British artist/designer Barnaby Barford presented a new range of porcelain figurines with David Gill Galleries at the Design Miami/Basel collectors' fair that ended on Saturday. More about Noir Collection by Barnaby Barford
SANAA Houses is a new book about the cult Japanese architectural practice headed by Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa. More about SANAA Houses
London architects Waugh Thistleton have designed a timber residential tower they say will be the tallest wooden housing block in the world. More about Timber tower by Waugh Thistleton
(Almost) live from Basel: the opening party for the MyHome and Vitra Edition 2007 exhibitions at Weil am Rhein on Wednesday night saw every building on the Vitra Campus open to guests, and open-air lounges set up beneath cherry trees in a meadow. More about Vitra Campus party
Live from Basel: here are some photos we took at Comme des Garçons Guerrilla Store +4161, which has been temporarily set up in an old industrial building in Basel, Switzerland. More about Comme des Garçons Guerrilla Store +4161
AMO, the think-tank arm of Office for Metropolitan Architecture, has announced a collaboration with the Hermitage State Museum (above) in St Petersburg, Russia, to develop a new museum typology for the 21st Century. More about Hermitage State Museum masterplan by AMO