Comments update: the debate over copyright for furniture designs raged on this week, after the managing director of replica company Voga argued that his firm was making good design affordable for the masses. More about "Why should the rich be the only people to enjoy style and design in their home?"
Comments update: inequality in architecture was back on the agenda this week, as readers responded to Dezeen columnist Alexandra Lange, who argued that sexism and prejudice were still a deep-rooted problem within the industry. More about "Giving a prize to a woman purely because she is female is insulting"
Comments update: could Google's modular smartphone prototype topple the market dominance of Apple's iPhone? More about "I can see this knocking Apple off its perch"
Comments update: Tony Ash, managing director of furniture brand Vitra, says designers need protecting from copycats – but readers aren't sure that cheap rip-offs are the design industry's biggest problem. More about "I don't expect a bargain for good design, but fair prices would be a nice change"
Comments update: a top heavy concrete house beside a Chilean lagoon proved unexpectedly divisive this week, with readers describing it as both "beautiful" and a "brick sh*thouse". More about "If you need to live in a nuclear shelter this is it"
Comments update: with Christmas just a couple of days away, readers have been scouring the pages of Dezeen for gift ideas – including this all-white Lego kit for architects that was released in Europe this year. More about "Lego for architects? Yes please Santa"
Comments update: a concept for a modular hotel on the banks of the Seine got readers fired up this week, with one describing it as among "the ugliest, most useless" projects we've published. More about "I need this as much as I need Ebola"
Comments update: Zaha Hadid generated a heated string of comments – and a pleading request for a reasoned debate – after hitting back at criticism of her Tokyo Olympic Stadium. More about "How about a reasoned discussion?"
Comments update: BIG's proposal for the Battersea Power Station development in London, a billboard by Zaha Hadid and the Comic Sans typeface have all made Dezeen readers irate this week. More about "A disaster on a monumental scale"
Comments update: Thomas Heatherwick found himself at the centre of a flurry of criticism this week, as planning documents revealed some unusual restrictions for his proposed bridge across the River Thames. More about "Is there a quota of new friends I can make while on this bridge?"
Comments update: when Apple's Jonathan Ive took to the stage at London's Design Museum, he probably didn't expect his comments on education to become the most hotly debated topic in design this week. More about "Safe to say he's the Kanye West of Apple?"
Comments update: architectural debate commanded the conversation on Dezeen this week, with one reader accusing the Modernist movement of "raping South America", while others were more concerned with defending MAD's design for the George Lucas museum from lazy criticism. More about "'Looks like' is the lowest kind of criticism"
Comments update: two design heavyweights, Marc Newson and Frank Gehry, dominated the debate on Dezeen this week for very different reasons. More about "Some of his own buildings belong to the 98% he's talking about"
Comments update: architecture dominated the discussions on Dezeen this week, spurred on in part by the president of China who declared that he wanted "no more weird architecture" in his country. More about "I personally quite like Rem's Pants... as for the giant penis, why not?"
Comments update: after a short animation simulating the completion of Antoni Gaudí's Sagrada Família basilica went viral on social media, readers revisited the story to question the logic of such a long-term project. More about "Why don't they give up building this thing?"
Comments update: a proposal to create a £600 million floating cycle path on London's River Thames was the most debated project on Dezeen last week. More about "If this is the answer then you are asking the wrong question"
Comments update: a prototype for a flying car was the focus of a debate on the future of transport this week, while a classic piece of Brutalist architecture divided readers over the merits of high-rise social housing. More about "As useful as a concrete cushion"
Comments update: the editor of one of Italy's leading design magazines told Dezeen that Milan was still the "international capital of design", triggering a passionate debate in our comments section. More about Dezeen readers debate whether Milan is still "the design capital"
Comments update: four bikes by prolific designer Philippe Starck were unveiled at bicycle trade show Eurobike, sparking one of the more amusing conversations on Dezeen last week. More about "Might be the ugliest bike I've ever seen"
Comments update: Zaha Hadid's decision to sue the author and publisher of a book review that included allegedly defamatory comments generated some of the week's most heated debate. More about "Am I the only one who agrees with Zaha?"