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New York architect Steven Holl has been given the go-ahead to build a controversial study centre dedicated to Norwegian writer Knut Hamsun, thirteen years after he was commissioned to design the building. More »

French Israeli designer Arik Levy was in London yesterday to promote his new Intangible collection for luxury crystal brand Baccarat. More »

Design Indaba update: South African architect Zenkaya has sent us images of the prefab lodges they exhibited at Design Indaba Expo in Cape Town last month. More »

More sex: Matali Crasset has designed a ‘love toy’ for Exquise Design For Pleasure - a new brand that aims to reinvent the notion of the sex toy by working with leading female designers. More »

Zaha Hadid has designed a landmark building for Szervita Square in the historic centre of Budapest, Hungary (via www.hg.hu). More »

Design Indaba update: South African designer Haldane Martin has sent us an image (just one, unfortunately) of his new Slant shelving system More »

Design Indaba update: international architects and designers including Thomas Heatherwick, Will Alsop, Shigeru Ban and David Adjaye are to design low-cost housing for families living in the shack districts (above) surrounding Cape Town, South Africa. More »

Wallpaper* creative director Tony Chambers has been appointed editor-in-chief of the magazine, it was announced yesterday. More »

Design Indaba update: a condom applicator designed to help AIDS prevention has been named the Most Beautiful Object in South Africa by Dutch designer Jurgen Bey. More »

Moritz Waldemeyer has sent us some backstage images from Hussein Chalayan’s Autumn/Winter 2007/8 collection, which was shown in Paris yesterday. More »

The UK’s Foreign and Commonwealth Office is holding a competition for the design of the British Pavilion at Expo 2010 in Shanghai. More »

An international competition for designs to help people without access to clean water has been won by a device that harvests water from the air. More »