News from Independent - 05/26/2010
Liz Hoggard: Reweaving the morality of fashion
Louis Vuitton is in town. This week, unveiling a new maison du luxe (three floors of unashamed high-end accessories, jewellery and clothing) on London's New Bond Street, the fashion retailer threw the mother of all parties. Cherie Blair mingled with Tracey Emin and Paloma Faith.
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News from East Anglian Daily News - 05/20/2010
Excellence in design honoured at awards
THREE building projects in Suffolk and Essex are among seven schemes honoured in the 2010 Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) East of England Awards.
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News from Art Daily - 04/08/2010
Transforming Tate Britain Application Submitted for Planning
Tate Britain © Tate. LONDON.- Tate has submitted the planning application for an exciting project to transform its original London gallery, Tate Britain.
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News from Interior Design - 04/08/2010
Anish Kapoor Unveils London Olympic Tower
Dubbed "Orbit," the sculptor designed the approximately 394-foot-tall public structure for the 2012 summer games.
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News from Interior Design - 04/05/2010
Anish Kapoor Unveils London Olympic Tower
Dubbed "Orbit," the sculptor designed the approximately 394-foot-tall public structure for the 2012 summer games.
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News from Interior Design - 04/01/2010
Anish Kapoor Unveils London Olympic Tower
Dubbed "Orbit," the sculptor designed the approximately 394-foot-tall public structure for the 2012 summer games.
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News from The Age - 04/01/2010
Sculpture adds dramatic twist to London Olympics
A fluke 45-second chat in a cloakroom at the World Economic Forum in Davos has spawned Britain's tallest sculpture, which will be built for the Olympics.
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News from Sify News - 04/01/2010
Indian sculptor's tower finds place at London Olympic Park
A 115-metre steel tower designed by Indian sculptor Anish Kapoor, which is being compared to the Eiffel Tower of Paris, will be constructed at 2012 Olympic Games stadium in London.
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News from Irish Examiner - 03/31/2010
Olympic Park to get mini-Eiffel tower
THE Olympic Park in London is to get a mini-Eiffel tower at the behest of Mayor Boris Johnson.
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News from ITN via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News - 03/31/2010
Kapoor lands contract for Olympic park tower
A 115m tall steel loop designed by Turner Prize-winning artist Anish Kapoor is to be built at the heart of the Olympic Park.
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News from Independent - 03/31/2010
120m high and very, very red: the best seat at the Olympic Games
The capital's own version of the Eiffel Tower, 120 metres high and visible from outside London, has been chosen as the monument to mark and tower over the 2012 Olympic Games.
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News from Guardian Unlimited - 03/31/2010
Anish Kapoor's tangled tower at the heart of London 2012
The Colossus of Stratford, or the Hubble Bubble? Link to this video It will be slightly taller than Big Ben and the Statue of Liberty, just short of the Great Pyramid of Giza and considerably shorter than the structure to which it is being compared – the Eiffel Tower.
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News from Bloomberg - 03/31/2010
Anish Kapoor to Design $29 Million Olympic Tower (Update2)
March 31 (Bloomberg) -- Anish Kapoor will put up a 19.1 million-pound ($29 million) tower in the 2012 London Olympics park, with ArcelorMittal , the world’s biggest steelmaker, contributing as much as 16 million pounds of the cost.
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News from Bloomberg - 03/31/2010
Anish Kapoor to Design $29 Million Olympic Tower (Update1)
March 31 (Bloomberg) -- Anish Kapoor will put up a 19.1 million-pound ($29 million) tower in the 2012 London Olympics park, with ArcelorMittal , the world’s biggest steelmaker, contributing as much as 16 million pounds of the cost.
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News from Financial Times - 03/31/2010
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It is already being likened to a helter-skelter, a giant treble clef, a monster water-pipe, or, in the words of Boris Johnson, mayor of London, “a super-sized mutant trombone”.
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News from Times Online - 03/31/2010
'Hubble Bubble' tower will be icon of Olympic legacy
More than 120 years after Gustave Eiffel built the steel lattice that came to symbolise Paris, London is taking on the City of Light with the Colossus of Stratford — at least, that is one of the names the capital’s mayor has in mind.
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News from Guardian Unlimited - 03/31/2010
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Designs for what will be Britain's biggest piece of public art, a 120 metres tall looping tower by the artist Anish Kapoor that people will be able to climb, giving spectacular views of London , were unveiled today by Boris Johnson , mayor of London.
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News from Guardian Unlimited - 03/31/2010
Climb this: Anish Kapoor's massive artwork that will tower over London
Designs for what will be Britain's biggest piece of public art, a 120 metres tall looping tower by the artist Anish Kapoor that people will be able to climb, giving spectacular views of London , were unveiled today by Boris Johnson , mayor of London.
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News from Mad.co.uk - 02/24/2010
Kit Grover works on Tate Britain retail offer
Tate Britain in London has appointed Kit Grover to redesign its retail offer, as part of its overarching £25m plan to remodel the art gallery over the next three years.
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News from Independent - 02/10/2010
Why have costly arts projects that were supposed to transform the country's cultural landscape flopped?
Ten years on since the great Millennium Lottery rush to turn this country into an all-singing, all-dancing culture-box, the picture is distinctly less sparkly.
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