All the rooms of this renovated Tokyo house by Japanese studio Naf Architect & Design are connected to a wooden box at its centre. More »

Skyscrapers in Seoul: a pair of 450 metre-high towers with glass scales by Chicago firm Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture are the latest of fifteen skyscrapers commissioned for the Yongsan International Business District in Seoul, South Korea, following recently released designs by BIG and MVRDV. More »

Italian-Singaporean designers Lanzavecchia + Wai have designed a collection of aids for the elderly with styling that’s more domestic than medical. More »

Designed in Hackney: next up in our series of stories about Hackney fashion design is the A-Lu-Ha collection by Lu Flux, combining vintage patchwork with Hawaiian details. More »

World Architecture Festival 2012: in the next movie from our series running up to this year’s World Architecture Festival, programme director Paul Finch tells us how the jury were ”bowled over” by the hand-constructed Mapungubwe Interpretation Centre by Peter Rich Architects, winner of the festival’s World Building of the Year award in 2009. More »

Promotion: entries are now being accepted for the Wood Awards 2012. More »

The China Central Television Headquarters in Beijing by architects OMA are now complete. More »

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Patchy timber shields the glazed upper storeys of this extension to a historic town hall in southern Spain by architects Viar Estudio. More »

Designed in Hackney: today’s colourful fashion focus is the neon bright Resort 2012 collection by Christopher Kane. More »

Architects Carmody Groarke and graphic designers A Practice For Everyday Life used Bauhaus-style colours and typography for the design of an exhibition about the celebrated art school at the Barbican gallery in London. More »

World Architecture Festival 2012: in our second movie celebrating this year’s World Architecture Festival in Singapore from 3-5 October, WAF programme director Paul Finch explains why the super-jury headed by architect Robert Stern selected the Universita Luigi Bocconi by Grafton Architects as World Building of the Year 2008 in the festival’s inaugural year. More »

Competition: we’ve teamed up with Architectural Design (AD) to give away five copies of Narrative Architecture by Nigel Coates, the latest title from the AD Primers series. More »

Movie: this timelapse movie by architectural photographer Paul Raftery and director Dan Lowe shows the final stages of construction for London skyscraper The Shard, designed by Italian architect Renzo Piano. More »