Today we like: champagne
Observation House by I/O Architects features gabion walls and a grassy viewing deck
Coloured “mountains” protrude from children’s science museum by LHSA+DP
Design contributes £71.7 billion to UK economy says Design Council report
Brancott Estate reveals design collaboration with Studio Dror
Stefania Vulpi’s Universal Unconditional platform lets people borrow citizenship
The London Taxi Company reveals “new generation” battery-powered black cab
Foster-designed hotel at Battersea Power Station to feature rooftop infinity pool
Pieke Bergmans creates neon lights with irregularly shaped tubes
Angular roof helps Mount Fuji house by Hiroki Tominaga Atelier shed snow
Modebelofte 2015 presents “sport-related” graduate fashion at Eindhoven football stadium
Car manufacturers show how Back to the Future is influencing vehicle design
Breaded Escalope’s touch-responsive clock tells the time with shadows
Sou Fujimoto creates installation from potato chips and ping-pong balls
Bastiaan Buijs creates wind-up sex toy using hand-blown glass
Music industry to blame for attitudes towards design copies, says Eames Demetrios
Dezeen Mail #276 features a selection of this week’s best stories and discussions
Hyperloop’s test track will be “closest thing to teletransportation”
Damien Hirst’s Newport Street Gallery photographed by Hélène Binet
Umwelt creates perforated concrete bunker for a television channel in Chile
Dominique Perrault awarded Praemium Imperiale arts prize
Michael J Fox tries Nike’s first pair of Back to the Future self-lacing shoes
New York’s first micro-apartment building to be completed in December