News from Reuters via Yahoo! India News - 07/19/2011
FEATURE - London looks to keep afloat its legacy
LONDON (Reuters) - Teenager Tom Daley will provide one of the enduring moments of the London Olympics if he wins diving gold at the dazzling, new Aquatics Centre in a year's time. How long the venue itself endures is another question.
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News from Reuters via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News - 07/19/2011
London looks to keep afloat its legacy
LONDON (Reuters) - Teenager Tom Daley will provide one of the enduring moments of the London Olympics if he wins diving gold at the dazzling, new Aquatics Centre in a year's time. How long the venue itself endures is another question.
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News from Reuters via Yahoo! UK & Ireland Sport - 07/19/2011
Olympics-London looks to keep afloat its legacy
Teenager Tom Daley will provide one of the enduring moments of the London Olympics if he wins diving gold at the dazzling, new Aquatics Centre in a year's time.
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News from Independent - 07/19/2011
Games pool is on time and under budget
The controversial Aquatics Centre will be finished next week as the Olympic Park, the venue for next year's London Games, moves ever closer to completion. Construction is set be finished within time and budget, according to Hugh Robertson, the Minister for Sport and the Olympics, with nearly 90 per cent of building work done.
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News from Curbed New York - 07/19/2011
Archicritics: New Yorker critic Paul Goldberger breaks...
New Yorker critic Paul Goldberger breaks out his golden quill for Zaha Hadid's two recent buildings in the UK, a school in Brixton and a transportation museum in Glasgow. While many of the so-called First Lady of Architecture's buildings have...
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News from Independent - 07/18/2011
Glasgow and Edinburgh: the architectural rivalry
Two new museums in Scotland, a vast zinc-coated amoeba on the edge of Glasgow, and a transformed temple of High Victorian knowledge in Edinburgh, have renewed the eternal cultural rivalry of these two great cities, just 47 miles apart. Glasgow claims immediate bragging rights because the Riverside Museum of Transport and Travel was designed by Zaha Hadid and cost more: £74m. And yet Gareth ...
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News from MTV - 07/18/2011
Pitchfork Performers EMA, Twin Sister, And Zola Jesus Talk Festival Fashion
EMA, Twin Sister, and Zola Jesus Perform at the 2011 Pitchfork Music Festival in Chicago, Illinois.Photo: Getty Images Summer festivals, like this past weekend's Pitchfork Festival, ain't a walk in a densely populated park: the crowds, the lines, the endless barefoot dancing. And the girls who brave the temps to get onstage to entertain the sweltering [...]
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News from BBC News - 07/18/2011
VIDEO: Architect's tour of Riverside Museum
Architect Zaha Hadid explains her design for Glasgow's Riverside Museum, her first major building in Britain.
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News from The New Yorker - 07/18/2011
Paul Goldberger: A flamboyant architect’s quieter side.
I once heard a prominent museum director call Zaha Hadid the Lady Gaga of architecture. Her fame as an architect owes much to her image as a flamboyant diva who produces striking, over-the-top buildings—a wild woman who makes wild things. Perhaps this is why, despite being . . . (Subscription required.)
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News from antiMUSIC - 07/17/2011
Jeff Beck and Jarvis Cocker To Receive Honorary Degrees Recap
Pulp's Jarvis Cocker and Jeff Beck will receive honorary degrees from the University of the Arts London
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News from AFP Telegraph Finance News via Yahoo! UK & Ireland Finance - 07/16/2011
London 2012 Olympics: The Olympic Stadium made in Britain
The grass came from Scunthorpe, the seats from Luton and the roof from Bolton. He could be talking about his new back garden but John Armitt, chairman of the Olympic Delivery Authority, is describing the ...
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News from ArtInfo via Yahoo! News - 07/16/2011
Dissecting the Ryan McGinley Lawsuit, Da Vinci Vanishes From the Market, the Monkey Copyright Caper, and the Week's ...
The most-talked-about stories on ARTINFO , July 11-15:
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News from Daily Telegraph - 07/16/2011
London 2012 Olympics: timelapse footage shows Games architecture take shape
New timelapse footage shows London's stunning new Aquatics Centre and Basketball Arena take shape in time for the 2012 Games.
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News from Los Angeles Times - 07/15/2011
New museums to marvel over in Amsterdam, Rome and Paris
The Hermitage Amsterdam, Rome's MAXXI and the Pinacothèque de Paris add a welcome burst of energy to the European art scene. In a wide-ranging trip to Europe this year, I found three major new museums to love: in Amsterdam, the first satellite branch of Russia's celebrated Hermitage; in Rome, a long-awaited museum for contemporary arts that is a work of art itself; and in Paris, a picture ...
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News from antiMUSIC - 07/14/2011
Jeff Beck and Jarvis Cocker To Receive Honorary Degrees
Pulp's Jarvis Cocker and Jeff Beck will receive honorary degrees from the University of the Arts London
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News from London SE1 - 07/14/2011
Architects selected for Elephant & Castle Leisure Centre and housing
Southwark Council and Lend Lease have named the architects chosen to design the new Elephant & Castle Leisure Centre and the housing development alongside it.
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News from BBC News - 07/13/2011
Cocker to receive honorary degree
Pulp frontman Jarvis Cocker is one of 17 "influential figures" set to receive honorary degrees from University of the Arts London.
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News from BBC News - 07/13/2011
Different class - Cocker to receive honorary degree
Pulp frontman Jarvis Cocker is one of 17 "influential figures" set to receive honorary degrees from University of the Arts London.
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News from Bangkok Post - Thailand's English news - 07/12/2011
Basel Capital of Swiss creativity
Balanced delicately in the cabin car 1,410 metres above Blechenland, the Black Forest, the stunning panoramic view overlooks the borders of Germany, France and Switzerland. Bright clear skies and the smell of refreshing pine trees, however, could not fully erase the repetitious images of election campaigns that littered the streets of Bangkok. Still, it was a brief welcome break not to confront ...
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News from PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance - 07/11/2011
Esri Acquires 3D Software Company Procedural
Esri has acquired Procedural, one of the world's leading software companies for creating stunning 3D urban environments from typical 2D data. Urban planners, architects, video game developers, and movie studios around the world use Procedural's CityEngine product to create 3D cities at any resolution.Â
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