Hotel brand Yotel have opened a flagship branch in New York's Times Square, where visitors check in at computerised kiosks while their luggage is stored or retrieved by a giant robotic arm. More about Yotel New York by Softroom and Rockwell Group
British photographers Hufton + Crow have sent us new images of the Dresden Museum of Military History, which reopened last month following an extension by New York architect Daniel Libeskind. More about Dresden Museum of Military History by Daniel Libeskind - more images
You can clamber down the inside walls of this ramshackle timber basin in the desert by Los Angeles designers Ball-Nogues Studio into a surprise swimming pool. More about Yucca Crater by Ball-Nogues Studio
Dezeen Wire: U.S. opinion columnist Harold Meyerson has written an article for the Washington Post in which he challenges assertions made in Walter Isaacson's bestselling biography of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs that it is America's ability to produce innovators such as Jobs that will keep them ahead of emerging industrial powers such as China and India.
Meyerson opines that Silicon Valley's creativity and technical expertise are not enough to revitalise the American economy, arguing that it is more important that Apple consider relocating production back to the U.S. He concludes his piece by stating that: "Absent manufacturing, innovation, even at its Jobsian heights, can’t do much for the U.S. economy — save, perhaps, dazzle us on our journey downward."
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OMA have completed a new building for the school of architecture at Cornell University in New York. More about Milstein Hall by OMA
Dezeen Wire: architect Frank Gehry has confirmed that he has submitted designs for projects in China and India as difficult economic conditions in the US have led to a decline in development - Bloomberg More about "Frank Gehry turns to Asia for architecture projects as U.S. growth slows"- Bloomberg
Dezeen Wire: the ceremony for next year's Pritzker Prize for architecture will take place in Beijing, the first time the ceremony has ever been held in China. More about 2012 Pritzker Architecture Prize ceremony to be held in China
Dezeen Wire: fifteen international design teams are in with a chance of redesigning one of three sites on Washington's National Mall following the announcement of the shortlist for the National Mall Design Competition. More about Shortlist announced for Washington's National Mall Design Competition
Dezeen Wire: 11 design teams including OMA, Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Zaha Hadid, Grimshaw Architects and HOK have been shortlisted in a competition to redesign the public spaces at Chicago's Navy Pier development. More about OMA, Zaha Hadid, BIG, Grimshaw and HOK on shortlist for Chicago's Navy Pier
Dezeen Wire: architecture critics have been offering their thoughts on Daniel Libeskind's divisive Military History Museum in Dresden, which opened earlier this month. More about Critics' reactions to Libeskind's Military History Museum
Dezeen Wire: in her latest article for The New York Times, design correspondent Alice Rawsthorn profiles Studio H, a humanitarian design project has spent a year teaching design skills to school children in a deprived part of North Carolina - The New York Times
Rawsthorn describes the process that Studio H founders Emily Pilloton and Matthew Miller undertook with the pupils – providing basic skills that resulted in the creation of a 2,000-square-foot pavilion at a local farmers market – and outlines the benefits of teaching design to students at a formative age.
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Dezeen Wire: in his latest review for The Observer architecture critic Rowan Moore criticises Daniel Libeskind's angular five-storey extension to the Military History Museum in Dresden, stating that "something so large and conspicuous should surely be more than a gesture." More about Libeskind's Military History Museum should be "more than a gesture"- The Observer
Dezeen Wire: American architect Frank Gehry has said that "people are asking good questions" about his divisive design for a memorial to America's 34th president, Dwight D. Eisenhower.
The proposal features large metal tapestries hung from 80-foot-tall columns and set in a landscaped park. At a presentation to fellow architects at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington on Tuesday evening, Gehry insisted that concerns voiced by the public and Eisenhower's grandchildren about the concept and scale of the project would be taken on board ahead of a planning application on 1 December - The Associated Press
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Foster + Partners have completed the world’s first space terminal for tourists in New Mexico. More about Spaceport America by Foster + Partners
Dezeen Wire: architect Frank Gehry has invited some of the world's leading architects and designers to join an advisory board that aims to identify ways to achieve a higher quality of built environment through intelligent design. More about Frank Gehry creates strategic alliance of leading architects
Construction has started on a new sports centre by architect Steven Holl for Columbia University in New York. More about Campbell Sports Centre by Steven Holl Architects
Dezeen Wire: a teenage design student's simple and poignant graphic reworking of Apple's logo that replaces the bite out of the apple with a silhouette of Steve Jobs has generated a huge amount of online interest as well as a job offer for its designer. More about Design student's tribute to Steve Jobs becomes online hit
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: 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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Swirling clouds of drumsticks cover the ceiling of a Los Angeles noodle restaurant by Japanese architects SWeeT. More about Tsujita LA by SWeeT