More design for London: designer Neil Barron has won a competition to design a carafe for serving tap-water in London’s restaurants, bars and hotels. More »

Car manufacturers Aston Martin and architects Foster + Partners are among the winners of a competition to design a new Routemaster bus for London. More »

Architects ONL (Oosterhuis Lénárd) have designed a whale-shaped building between two existing warehouses on the banks of the river Danube in Budapest, Hungary. More »

Zaha Hadid Architects have won a competition to design a library and learning centre for the University of Economics & Business in Vienna, Austria. More »

Design Miami 08: British designer Tom Dixon exhibited a collection of furniture made from flame-cut steel during Design Miami earlier this month. More »

Paris-based Explorations Architecture have sent us these images of a temporary entrance-pavilion they have designed for the Chateau de Versailles in France. More »

Recent industrial design graduates Designasyl have sent us images of their thesis project Stay At My Home, a range of temporary furniture for overnight guests. More »

A ski jump in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, designed by Munich-based architects terrain:loenhart&mayr has been nominated for the Mies van der Rohe Award 2009. More »

Architects Herzog & de Meuron have designed a new headquarters for Spanish banking group BBVA. More »

French designer Mathieu Lehanneur has designed a shop and work space for Le Laboratoire in Paris, France. More »

Architects Bernhardt + Partners have designed an astronomy centre in Heidelberg, Germany. More »

French designer Paul Coudamy of art collective Elegangz has created these wooden shoes for footwear brand K-Swiss. More »

Bergen-based architect Thomas Tysseland of  Juice Arkitektur has designed a nursery in Knarvik, Norway. More »

Architects LAVA have created an installation called Green Void in the central atrium of Customs House in Sydney, Australia. More »