Zaha Hadid

After years of controversy around Zaha Hadid’s doomed proposal, Kuma’s sober design arrived on time and within budget – only for the games to be postponed 

A new biography of Philip Johnson reveals the contradictions and ambiguities of the world’s first ‘starchitect’

Known for swathes of standardized modernist high-rises, the South Korean capital is transforming itself into a hub for architectural design

Zaha Hadid, SFMOMA, Tate Switch House and London’s Design Museum: the highs and lows of the year in architecture

Zaha Hadid Architects distances itself from principle Patrik Schumacher; Glasgow Sculpture Studios to close its exhibition space

Greece makes a renewed attempt to retrieve the Parthenon Marbles while Zaha Hadid gets an impromptu retrospective in Venice

Thomas Demand, the FM Center for Contemporary Art and the changing landscape of Milan's art scene

The British architect has died, aged 65

From the fall of Cecil Rhodes to the return of Pee-wee Herman: what we’ve been reading this week

Elisabeth Murdoch establishes a prize for female artists and Zaha Hadid passes away: the latest news from the art world

The ArcelorMittal Orbit and the recent history of large-scale folly

Architectural Association, London, UK

Unemployment, the London Olympics, new galleries in Metz and Rome, the Shanghai World Expo and contrasting spa designs

The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA