British art dealer Kenny Schacter has commissioned architect Zaha Hadid to build him a custom boat. Preliminary images for the black, 8-meter-long Z Boat reveal “a fragmented, angular vessel sprung from a Christopher Nolan movie.”

Four years after the Beijing Olympics, the Ai Weiwei–designed “Birds Nest” stadium is “looking tired and empty.” The $480 million facility requires $11 million per year in upkeep and hosts money-making experiments, from Segway tours to indoor skiing.

Anthony Burrill, whose koan-like letterpress posters are part of Graphic Design: Now In Production (on view now at Cooper-Hewitt), has a new show in London based on workshops he led in São Paulo. Title: How to say the most with least.

In 1986, to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Statue of Liberty, Pentagram partner Kit Hinrichs invited 96 graphic designers to reinterpret the American flag. This July 4 brings a look into the archives to share some of the results.

Opened July 1 at MoMA PS1, Wendy is an architectural and environmental experiment: “Composed of fabric treated with a ground breaking titania nanofilm to neutralize airborne pollutants,” it’ll clean about 260 cars’ worth of smog from the air this summer.

Diller Scofidio + Renfro, the architectural firm behind the Hirshhorn’s Bubble expansion and the High Line, has been selected to design the gallery and visitor experience at the expanded Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum.

Austerity, says Iraqi-born architect Zaha Hadid “is used as a cliche because people don’t have ideas, they want to crib [old ones] to do bad stuff. Schools, housing, hospitals—I think the government should invest in good housing.”