Business news: startup furniture brand Hem has been acquired by a private buyer in a deal that will see designer and co-founder Petrus Palmér become CEO in place of Jason Goldberg, who will leave the company. More about Design brand Hem sold to private investment company
The Royal Institute of British Architects has acted "to right a 180-year wrong" by giving its highest honour to a woman, the body's president has said. More about Royal Gold Medal for Zaha Hadid was "totally overdue" says RIBA president
BIG, OMA and Zaha Hadid Architects have all been shortlisted to design a major new museum in Budapest, which will be built alongside cultural buildings by SANAA and Sou Fujimoto. More about Bjarke, Rem and Zaha battle to join Sou Fujimoto and SANAA at Budapest museum park
Danish firms Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects and Gottlieb Paludan Architects have won a competition to design the world's largest waste-to-energy power plant in China (+ movie). More about World's largest waste-to-energy plant proposed for Shenzhen
People in the Netherlands will soon be able to cycle over the world's first 3D-printed steel bridge on the world's first 3D-printed steel bicycle (+ movie). More about Arc Bicycle has 3D-printed steel frame created by TU Delft students and MX3D
Danish practice PLH Arkitekter has based its design for this visitor centre at a Viking landmark in Denmark on a circular shield (+ slideshow). More about PLH Arkitekter reveals plans for shield-shaped visitor centre at Danish Viking site
Zaha Hadid has rejected claims that her architecture is self-indulgent and wilful, believing that she is "widely misunderstood" by the mainstream. More about "Architecture is not a medium of personal expression for me" says Zaha Hadid
Architecture firm Grimshaw has designed a 14-storey school complex for New South Wales, which it describes as a "totally new typology" (+ slideshow). More about Grimshaw unveils plans for high-rise school complex on Sydney's outskirts
Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby are joining the teaching staff at Parsons design school in New York, after leaving the Design Interactions course at London's Royal College of Art last year. More about Dunne and Raby move to Parsons following RCA departure
Danish architect Bjarke Ingels claims his Copenhagen housing development has accomplished the social mission Brutalist architects Alison and Peter Smithson set out to achieve with their "streets in sky" concept in the 1960s and 1970s. More about BIG's 8 House succeeds where the Smithsons' "streets in the sky" failed, says Bjarke Ingels
Taxi service Uber has launched a new identity designed by the company's CEO, which presents users in different countries with customised colours and patterns, and which has already been compared to an "asshole". More about Uber rebrands with location-specific "asshole" logos based on bathroom tiles
Timur Bashkayev Architectural Bureau and BuroMoscow have won an international competition to design two new stations for the Moscow Metro network (+ slideshow). More about Competition-winning plans unveiled for two new Moscow Metro stations
A team from Massachusetts Institute of Technology has won a competition to design an experimental capsule for the Hyperloop – a conceptual high-speed transport network conceived by billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk. More about MIT students' bullet-shaped Hyperloop pod wins Elon Musk's SpaceX competition
Farrells has proposed a series of low-level bridges over the River Thames to help stimulate water-side development in east London. More about Terry Farrell proposes six new bridges across River Thames in east London
Business news: online retail businesses are becoming more expensive to run than traditional design stores, according to Bradford Shellhammer, who co-founded Fab.com and launched Bezar.com. More about It's now cheaper to open a traditional shop than an online store, says Fab co-founder
Business news: online design store Bezar has been bought by internet marketplace Ahalife and will disappear as a brand, founder Bradford Shellhammer has announced. More about Bradford Shellhammer's Bezar acquired by online retailer Ahalife
Mexico City-based Escobedo Soliz Studio has won this year's MoMA PS1 Young Architects Program contest, with plans to create a colourful woven canopy and a paddling pool in the New York gallery's courtyard (+ slideshow). More about Escobedo Soliz to create "cloud of ropes" for MoMA PS1 Young Architects Program
New York-based Diller Scofidio + Renfro has completed a new home for the Berkeley Art Museum and the Pacific Film Archive, adding a sculptural metal volume to an old industrial plant (+ slideshow). More about Official photos released of new Berkeley art and film centre by Diller Scofidio + Renfro
Bjarke Ingels' firm has unveiled its design for a police station in New York that will consist of intersecting blocks clad in concrete, metal and glass. More about BIG reveals design of police station planned for the Bronx
The DeLorean Motor Company has announced its intention to manufacture the iconic DMC-12 sports car again, 30 years after the vehicle was immortalised in sci-fi movie trilogy Back to the Future. More about DeLorean goes back to the future to reproduce DMC-12 car