Design Indaba 2015: most furniture and lighting brands "will disappear in five years" as the internet revolutionises the way products are distributed, according to Italian industrial designer Stefano Giovannoni (+ interview). More about Most design brands "will disappear" within five years says Stefano Giovannoni
News: work has begun on a redevelopment of Budapest's Central European University by Irish firm O'Donnell + Tuomey, winners of this year's RIBA Royal Gold Medal (+ slideshow). More about Construction starts on O'Donnell + Tuomey's Budapest university redesign
News: Google has released a movie detailing its plans for a new California headquarters designed by the studios of Bjarke Ingels and Thomas Heatherwick. More about BIG and Heatherwick unveil "vibrant new neighbourhood" for Google's California HQ
News: an international design competition has been launched to create a "state-of-the-art facility for young people" inside Preston Bus Station, an iconic Brutalist building in Lancashire, England. More about Competition launched to create youth centre inside Preston's Brutalist bus station
News: plans to recreate the Crystal Palace exhibition hall in south London have been shelved, despite attracting a shortlist of architects including Zaha Hadid, Richard Rogers and David Chipperfield. More about London council cans controversial Crystal Palace project
Design Indaba 2015: the Bombo stool is "the most copied design product in the world," according to its designer Stefano Giovannoni. More about Bombo stool by Stefano Giovannoni is world's "most copied" design product
News: a seven-mile-long skating rink proposed for the Canadian city of Edmonton could allow commuters to ice skate or toboggan to work and school during winter months (+ movie). More about Canadian Freezeway could become world's first curb-side skating lane
News: a competition will be launched next week to design a new Bauhaus Museum in Dessau, where the famous German art and design school was based between 1925 and 1932. More about Design competition announced for new Bauhaus Museum
News: as construction of BIG's Amager Bakke Waste-to-Energy Plant continues in Copenhagen, a video has surfaced showing a successful trial for the building's smoke-ring-blowing chimney (+ movie). More about Video reveals trial of smoke-ring-blowing chimney for BIG's Copenhagen power plant
News: BIG and Heatherwick Studio are collaborating on a new headquarters building for Google in Mountain View, California. More about Bjarke Ingels and Thomas Heatherwick to design Google's new California HQ
News: Zaha Hadid Architects director Patrik Schumacher has called for the abolition of state-funded arts schools, branding them "an indefensible anachronism". More about "Stop all public funding" for arts schools says Patrik Schumacher
News: a concert hall with a spiky roof in Poland and a terracotta winery buried beneath an Italian vineyard are among the five finalists in the running for the European Union's 2015 architecture prize – the Mies van der Rohe Award (+ slideshow). More about Mies van der Rohe Award 2015 finalists announced
Waterfalls, rainbow-coloured latticework and bright red cycle lanes feature among proposals for a new bridge across London's River Thames to rival Thomas Heatherwick's Garden Bridge (+ slideshow). More about Over 70 designs unveiled for another new bridge across London's River Thames
Design Indaba 2015: the design industry has lost touch with its social and cultural values and is producing "too much shit design", according to Hella Jongerius. More about Hella Jongerius calls for "new holistic approach to design"
News: a new smartwatch from Pebble that promises seven days of battery life has reached its $500,000 Kickstarter goal in less than 20 minutes. More about Pebble Time smartwatch breaks Kickstarter records with Morem funding in one hour
News: Swedish car manufacturer Volvo has revealed plans to test 100 self-driving vehicles on city streets with members of the public by 2017. More about Volvo announces "one-of-a-kind" public tests for self-driving cars
News: a proposal to carve a cultural centre out of the landscape has won the UNESCO design contest for a Bamiyan Valley site where two seventh-century statues of Buddha were destroyed by Taliban militants. More about UNESCO unveils winning cultural centre design for heritage site in war-torn Afghanistan
News: MVRDV has been granted planning approval to overhaul a 1970s complex in Paris, which includes adding a new facade of colourful stacked boxes to an existing shopping centre. More about MVRDV wins approval for Vandamme Nord shopping centre facelift in Paris
News: SO-IL and FREAKS freearchitects have together won a competition to redesign a glass museum, workshop and gallery on the site of an 18th-century glass factory in north-east France. More about SO-IL and FREAKS to redesign glass museum on French-German border
News: residents of one of the tallest residential skyscrapers in the world have been gradually returning to their homes after a fire that caused more than a thousand people to be evacuated. More about Fire devastates Dubai's 336-metre Torch skyscraper