Amid the rush to build the stadium on time, and driven by an over-ambitious vision for athletics, considerations about building for an end user came a poor second... more
London 2012 chiefs showed off the legacy design of the aquatics centre and progress on other venues today, as Olympic inspectors completed their latest tour of the park... more
Zaha Hadid lives in a pristine white pod, has sacrificed her personal life to architecture, and will brook no opposition from underlings or the establishment. Harry Mount has an audience with the newly crowned winner of the Stirling Prize... more
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
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
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
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
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
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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
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 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
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
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