David Phelan visits two of HTC's design teams to track the tough process

28.07.11

So what do you be deficient in in your phone? What annoys you about it? What would your dream phone look like, behave like or do? HTC, the Taiwanese smartphone maker that has risen from superficially nowhere in under five years, would like to know.

The first Olympic velodrome: Tour de force

28.07.11

With only a year to go until the start of the 2012 Olympics all eyes are now on London’s newly completed venues.

If there was a Olympic inscription for best venue the Hopkins-designed velodrome must be among the favourites for gold. It has already been placed on the shortlist for the Stirling Accolade and New London Architecture hailed it the best new building in the capital earlier this month.