News: leading figures from London's design institutions have warned that new immigration rules which make it harder for international students to stay in the UK after graduation could be a "disaster" for the city. More about New immigration rules are "hugely damaging" for design in London
Design Miami 2013: the entrance pavilion for the Design Miami collectors' fair in December will comprise a mound of sand with an aluminium roof perched on top. More about Design Miami pavilion to feature a pile of sand
Inside Festival 2013: two projects in Singapore and a house with triangular floor tiles (pictured) feature in the second group of category winners for the awards at this year's Inside Festival. More about Inside Awards 2013 day two winners announced
News: the completion of Art Nouveau architect Antoni Gaudí's Sagrada Família basilica in Barcelona is simulated in this movie released to show the final stages of construction anticipated before 2026, 100 years after the death of the architect (+ movie). More about Animation shows completion of Antoni Gaudí's Sagrada Família
World Architecture Festival 2013: we're reporting on the World Architecture Festival in Singapore this week. Category winners from the first day include a whirlpool-shaped aquarium and a sports college perforated with the shapes of athletes. More about World Architecture Festival 2013 day one winners announced
Inside Festival 2013: Dezeen is in Singapore for this year's Inside Festival, where category winners of the awards programme from the first day include a shopping centre with colour-coded atriums and a lift scaling the fortified city walls of Valletta. More about Inside Awards 2013 day one winners announced
News: car brand Bentley has become the latest luxury brand to develop its own furniture line with the launch of the Bentley Home range of sofas, chairs and tables. More about Bentley launches furniture range
News: furniture retail giant IKEA has announced plans to sell flat-packed solar panels. More about IKEA to sell flat-pack solar panels
News: British television presenter Kevin McCloud's design-led housing development firm has broken the world record for equity crowdfunding by securing investments in excess of £1.9 million from members of the public via online platform Crowdcube. More about Design-led housing developer breaks world record for equity crowdfunding
News: Stirling Prize judge Tom Dyckhoff has spoken of being "punched in the gut" by the house-inside-a-castle that clinched the award last night, although its architects missed out on the usual £20,000 cash bounty, as organisers RIBA failed to find a sponsor. More about "Utterly magical" building wins top UK architecture prize - but no cash
News: a contemporary house inserted into the twelfth-century ruins of Astley Castle in Warwickshire by Witherford Watson Mann has won the RIBA Stirling Prize 2013 for the greatest contribution to British architecture in the last year. More about Astley Castle renovation wins RIBA Stirling Prize 2013
News: Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto has unveiled his design for a mixed-use retail building as part of the developing Miami Design District. More about Sou Fujimoto designs new building for Miami Design District
News: the number of people riding the Wilkinson Eyre-designed Emirates Air Line has dropped by half since last year, fuelling criticism that the project is not fulfilling its intended role as a key part of London's transportation infrastructure. More about London cable car passenger numbers fall by half
News: Arizona architect Nick Tsontakis has unveiled plans for a house that will straddle a mountain and be shaped like a manta ray (+ slideshow). More about Manta ray-shaped house set to straddle an Arizona mountain
This luxury apartment building in Hong Kong references the local vernacular of overcrowded high-rise towers covered in ad hoc extensions. More about Composite Building by Aedas
News: Zaha Hadid's extension to the Serpentine Gallery has opened today in London's Kensington Gardens (+ slideshow). More about Serpentine Sackler Gallery by Zaha Hadid
News: rapper Kanye West has revealed he is frustrated he's not taken seriously as a "real designer" and that he plans to move into architecture. More about "I'm working with five architects at a time" - Kanye West
News: science-fiction author Neal Stephenson is developing a concept for a 20-kilometre (12.4-mile) skyscraper that could be used to launch rockets into space. More about Science-fiction author proposes 20-kilometre rocket-launching skyscraper
News: the brutalist 1960s bus station in Preston, England, has been safeguarded from demolition after being declared a Grade II-listed historic building by the UK government. More about Preston Bus Station protected from demolition
News: London studio Weston Williamson has won a competition to design a new athletics stadium for Brasilia with a concept for a shape-shifting structure that opens like a flower in response to wind direction and sunlight. More about Weston Williamson unveils shape-shifting stadium for Brasilia