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It's not time for a Zaha Hadid backlash

17.11.09
The world's most glamorous architect has just unveiled a futuristic new museum in Rome - and her Olympic Aquatics Centre is taking shape. They may be extravagant, but there is still value in thinking big... more

Watershed for 2012 swimmers as aquatics centre gets new roof

11.11.09
Work on the £300million Olympic aquatics centre - the architectural gem of the 2012 Games - reached a major milestone with the completion of the stingray-shaped roof... more

First venue of £6bn Olympic Park is finished: a tin shed

10.11.09
It may not win any architectural prizes but a lime-green building made of old shipping containers has become the first London 2012 Olympic Park venue to be completed... more

Staying ahead of the celebrity game with wigs and weaves

14.10.09
Any self-respecting celebrity who wants to stay in the limelight knows all it takes is some good extensions, the odd weave - and a wig... more

A shoe revolution is upon us

20.07.09
Is it footwear or a work of art? Architects and designers are stepping out into a new world, writes Jenny Wilhide... more

Why art is the social lubricant of our great city

10.07.09
At last night’s annual Serpentine Summer party, London shoulders its way to the front of the queue when it comes to sexing up the art world ... more

Woolies pops up again as art gallery

29.06.09
A defunct Woolies store in east London has been requisitioned by local artists as part of the craze for “pop-up” art galleries across the city... more

Introducing... Glowacka Rennie Architects

22.05.09
Watch out, Zaha Hadid. Agnieszka Glowacka and Eleanor Rennie have founded their own architecture firm and have, most recently, designed the ladies' loos at the V&A...... more

Architects unite to fire barracks salvo at Prince

20.04.09
The Prince of Wales has come under renewed fire from the world's leading architects over his attempt to interfere in the Chelsea barracks development... more

The end of the icon

17.03.09
The age of the look-at-me building is drawing to a close as projects flounder and Norman Foster, Zaha Hadid, Frank Gehry and Richard Rogers make cutbacks — but there is a silver lining... more

V&A donor’s £25,000 prize for Islamic art

26.01.09
An award with a cheque as big as the Turner Prize has been announced for contemporary artists influenced by Islamic craft and design... more

Credit crunch fails to bite Home House

07.01.09
Leisure: Private members’ club Home House said it is defying the credit crunch, with a record number of new members signing up in the last three months of 2008 ... more

Zadie, Jarvis and cardinal to guest-edit BBC's Today

11.12.08
Novelist Zadie Smith, singer Jarvis Cocker and head of the Catholic Church in England and Wales, Cardinal Cormac Murphy O'Connor, were confirmed as guest editors of Radio 4's Today programme... more

A Night Out in London: National Portrait Gallery

10.12.08
After absorbing the culture at the National Portrait Gallery, relax in the roof-top restaurant and bar.... more

Carafe has designs on the capital's free water

01.12.08
The winning design for a tap water carafe to be used in thousands of restaurants and bars in the capital is revealed today.... more

£40m leisure pool for Olympic site to be axed

14.10.08
Plans for a £40million leisure pool and fitness centre to be built in the Olympic Park are set to be scrapped due to financial pressures... more

A Technicolor Hadid arrives at the National Portrait Gallery

01.10.08
One of Britain's most colourful architects has been immortalised in a portrait as vivid as she is... more

2012 pool chosen despite design flaws

15.07.08
The design for the aquatic centre dubbed the "jewel in the crown" of the 2012 Olympic site was picked despite obvious design flaws, it was revealed... more

The Games need Zaha's icon

08.07.08
The Aquatics Centre has become a target for criticism of the London Olympics. But here, on the day of the Standard debate on 2012, one critic argues it is an outstanding landmark building... more

Literature Festival is Making Hay in the metropolis

04.07.08
Surely if Hay-on-Wye can rig up a worldclass literary festival, our bustling metropolis can rouse itself for a couple of weeks of book chat? ... more

Gehry's summer pavilion resembles exploding timber yard

19.06.08
Work has started on this year's Serpentine Gallery summer pavilion, designed to look like an exploding timber yard... more

£5,000 prize to design a carafe

14.05.08
Thames Water and Mayor Boris Johnson launch a contest to design a carafe for London tap water... more

How architects work... after a fashion

22.04.08
Groundbreaking designs in fashion and architecture from Issey Miyake to Thomas Heatherwick are being featured in a new exhibition at Somerset House... more

Landmark building scrapped because of fears over economy

14.02.08
A building designed for the South Bank by one of the world's top architects has been scrapped over fears about the credit crunch... more

Magic mushrooms sprout in Kensington Gardens

11.07.07
Large glowing mushrooms have sprung up beside the Serpentine Gallery to provide shelter for guests at the gallery's annual summer party.... more

An architect at her peak

02.07.07
Zaha Hadid gained a reputation as the world's greatest unbuilt architect and her work is on show at The Design Museum's biggest exhibition... more

Great debate on the future of London

13.06.07
A series of five major debates is to be held at Tate Modern to discuss the changing nature of London.... more

Arts fund to kickstart Olympic cultural events

17.04.07
A new fund is being launched to kickstart five years of Olympics cultural events in the run-up to the 2012 Games.... more

Trafalgar Square...minus lions and Nelson

19.03.07
Believe it or not this is Trafalgar Square. The vibrant painting is the vision of renowned architect Zaha Hadid for what the square could look like.... more

Who's who in Richard and Ruthie's set

04.12.06
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