Steve Delahoyde

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The Post in Which Your Long-Serving Co-Editor Makes a Clumsy, Sob-Filled Exit

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Way back around the end of 2005, I received an invitation from mediabistro to step in as a guest editor for a vacationing Eva Hagberg, writing a few posts for [...]

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Do Not Be Cynical When the London Olympics Torch Wins the Design Museum’s Design of the Year Award

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Because we’re good and gracious people, we’re not going to cry foul on the Design Museum‘s Design of the Year prize, which just this week awarded its 2012 edition to [...]

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AIA’s Architecture Billings Index Slips a Bit, But Stays Positive

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Could we actually be seeing, dare we even let the thought cross our collective brains, a consistent upward trend? After years of being burnt in this exact situation, when the [...]

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No Matter What He Might Have Told You, Philippe Starck Isn’t Designing a Product for Apple

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The internet was suddenly abuzz late last week, just before the weekend, when everyone’s favorite French designer Philippe Starck told a newspaper that he was working with Apple on a [...]

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London Olympics Reject Olafur Eliasson’s ‘Breath Bubble’ Art Installation

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“Take your breathing people and scram,” weren’t the words used by the London Organizing Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games when talking to artist Olafur Eliasson about a project [...]

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National Mall Redesign Competition Selects Finalists

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The hunt for someone to redesign the “loved to death” sections of the National Mall in Washington D.C. has been somewhat quiet since the competition selected its all-star jury lineup [...]

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Metropolitan Museum of Art Alters Performance Series, Renames It ‘Met Museum Presents’

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If over the years you had developed a vague idea of what types of public talks and concerts the Metropolitan Museum of Art would be hosting over any given week, [...]

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Architecture Critic Paul Goldberger Departs <i>New Yorker</i> for <i>Vanity Fair</i>

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The end of an era is at hand. Yesterday it was announced the New Yorker‘s longtime architecture critic, Paul Goldberger, will be leaving the magazine he’s called home for the [...]

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Gucci vs. Guess Copyright Battle Finally Goes to Trial

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After the fun-at-times legal war between Christian Louboutin and Yves Saint Laurent ended last fall with something akin to a dull whimper, we were worried that we’d have to wait [...]

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Despite Family’s Objections, Eisenhower Memorial Commission Remains Committed to Frank Gehry

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In the end, it apparently takes a whole lot to topple a famous architect and his heavy pillars. After months of discussion, and an increasingly vocal group of family members [...]