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This week on Dezeen
This week news surfaced of a possible design fault with Apple's iPhone 6, the High Line's final phase opened in New York (pictured), and we launched a new series focussing on the impact technology is having on fashion. Read on for more architecture and design highlights.
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Apple came under fire as reports circulated on social media that the new iPhone's aluminium outer shell was bending as a consequence of being stored in trouser pockets.
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Proposals unveiled included Snøhetta's competition-winning design to build a library around a railway line in Canada, 3XN's 200-metre skyscraper that will loom over the Sydney Opera House, and BIG's vision to transform a Danish harbour.
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Big-hitters Herzog & de Meuron and John Pawson were revealed to be joining forces to design a luxury Manhattan hotel and apartment block, while Thomas Heatherwick's gin distillery for Bombay Sapphire opened.
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In other architecture news, Irish architects Sheila O'Donnell and John Tuomey were named as the 2015 recipients of the Royal Gold Medal and Jonathan Tuckey completed a contemporary glazed extension to a Grade II-listed house.
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Our London Design Festival 2014 coverage continued, with projects including a furniture collection crafted using an ancient weaving technique, lighting designed to look like clouds and chunky wooden garment rails.
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We also extended our series on Brutalist architecture, adding Ernö Goldfinger's Balfron Tower and Paul Rudolph's Yale Art and Architecture Building to our list of featured buildings.
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