World Architecture Festival 2014: architect Moshe Safdie spoke to Dezeen about his two best-known projects: Singapore's Marina Bay Sands development, which hosted this year's WAF; and Montreal's Habitat 67 building which, he revealed, was modelled using pieces of Lego (+ interview + slideshow). More about Moshe Safdie on Marina Bay Sands: a single tower would have been "unbearable"
Rough concrete columns are juxtaposed with bright blue aluminium panels at the soon-to-open Issey Miyake flagship store in London by Japanese designer Tokujin Yoshioka (+ slideshow + interview). More about Tokujin Yoshioka designs London flagship store for Issey Miyake
World Architecture Festival 2014: after working as project architect for OMA's giant CCTV tower, architect Ole Scheeren stepped out of Rem Koolhaas' shadow and set up his own practice in China. He spoke to Dezeen about what he learned from his former mentor and the vastly different speed, scale and ambition of working in the east (+ slideshow). More about Ole Scheeren: Asia has "a certain fearlessness and vision for the future"
Movie: architect Torben Madsen says new technology should be incorporated subtly into bathroom design in this movie produced by Dezeen for Danish brand Vola. More about Technology in bathrooms should be "hidden away," says Vola designer
Movie: in this exclusive interview, architect Winy Maas of MVRDV explains how the firm developed the distinctive curving arch design of the Markthal in Rotterdam, which opened today. More about MVRDV designed the Markthal Rotterdam to be "as proud as possible"
In his first interview since joining Apple, industrial designer Marc Newson discusses his latest product – a domestic draft beer machine he says is the equivalent to a Nespresso coffee maker for beer lovers – and the future of the mechanical timepiece in the wake of the Apple Watch (+ interview + slideshow). More about Marc Newson designs "revolutionary" draft beer machine for Heineken
Dezeen Book of Interviews: in the third extract from our latest book, London-based architect David Adjaye discusses his longstanding fascination with Africa and the opportunities it holds for architects. More about David Adjaye: "Africa offers an extraordinary opportunity"
Fashion and technology: the digital revolution presents the "biggest challenge for fashion brands" according to digital fashion pioneer Francis Bitonti who asks: "How will an industry where value is communicated by exclusivity and craft cope with this new space?" (+ interview) More about "Technology is going to turn the entire fashion industry inside out"
Interview: a new exhibition at the Barbican in London explores how photographers have shaped public perceptions of architecture over the past century. Dezeen spoke to curator Elias Redstone about how greats including Le Corbusier, Aldo Rossi and Zaha Hadid have forged "symbiotic relationships" with photographers. More about "Le Corbusier was incredibly attuned to the power of photography," says Barbican exhibition curator
Speaking at the launch of his first major built project in the UK – a gin distillery in Hampshire – London designer Thomas Heatherwick said he was "lucky" to be a British designer, but added that projects that promoted industry in the UK were "rare" (+ interview). More about "Some of the best minds of the world are based in Britain," says Thomas Heatherwick
Fashion and technology: sports brands like Nike and Adidas have been leading "technological innovation" in shoe design but the fashion industry is finally beginning to wake up to the possibilities of digital technologies, says Rem D Koolhaas, co-founder of footwear brand United Nude (+ interview). More about "The fashion industry has finally woken up"
As part of our series on new print magazines bucking the trend for online design journalism, Dezeen spoke to Laura Houseley, editor of Modern Design Review, about the advantages of a slower pace of publishing and focusing on a single aspect of the design industry (+ interview + slideshow). More about New magazines: "It's gloriously single-minded"
Fashion and technology: in the first part of a series focusing on designers who are introducing the fashion world to new technologies, Dezeen speaks to architect Julia Koerner about how advances in 3D scanning, modelling and printing are creating a "revolution in customised fashion pieces within ready to wear" (+ interview + slideshow). More about "Technology adds an incredible advantage to fashion design"
Interview: last week Italian lighting brand Flos was sold to a private equity fund. Dezeen spoke to Flos CEO Piero Gandini about the future of his company, of Italian design and of lighting (+ slideshow). More about Lighting has "passed from electricity into electronics" says Piero Gandini of Flos
London Design Festival 2014: design website Standseven has launched its first limited-edition product this week with a stool shaped like the number seven by London architect David Adjaye (+ interview). More about David Adjaye creates Stool 7 for new online design platform Standseven
Interview: crowdfunding sites, electronic formats and online book fairs mean architecture and design book publishing is going through "a renaissance," according to Steve Kroeter, editor-in-chief of the Designers & Books website (+ interview). More about Printed design books "won't go away"
London Design Festival 2014: the daughter of British designers Robin and Lucienne Day talks to Dezeen about preserving her parents' legacy and the launch of a new version of her father's much replicated 675 Chair (+ interview + slideshow). More about Robin and Lucienne Day's daughter "wasn't prepared to allow their works to be misused"
News: the editor of one of Italy's leading design magazines has denied that her country's industry is in decline and believes that "Milan is still the international capital of design" (+ interview). More about Milan "still the capital of design" says Interni's Gilda Bojardi
Dezeen and MINI Frontiers: in the next preview of our Dezeen and MINI Frontiers exhibition, we visit Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg at the RCA workshop where she's been making 112 miniature cars to create a "model ecosystem" of vehicles. More about Car design and production could "start to show biological adaptation and mutation"
Dezeen and MINI Frontiers: artist Lucy McRae shows us the experiments she's been doing with emergency blankets and vacuum cleaners in our second behind-the-scenes preview of next week's Dezeen and MINI Frontiers exhibition. More about Lucy McRae experiments with negative pressure to "prep humans to go to space"