The articulated Bao Bao bag – a perennial favourite among architects and designers – has been updated with an assortment of new piece shapes, including arrows, circles and lighting bolts (+ slideshow). More about Issey Miyake updates iconic Bao Bao bag with new shapes
A seating design aiming to tackle the problem of overcrowding on trains features in this week's issue of Dezeen Mail, along with Moby's criticism of a Zaha Hadid-designed hotel room and a zinc-clad home in a Wisconsin crop field (pictured).
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UK firm Knight Architects has revealed its plans for a bridge that will stretch a kilometre across a bay in Helsinki, making it the longest bridge in Finland. More about Knight Architects unveils design for Finland's longest bridge
San Francisco studio New Deal Design has devised a small copper-coloured device that allows users to make purchases by swiping its textured surface, as "a modern replacement for cash". More about New Deal Design's Scrip device brings tactility to digital payments
Shipping containers are stacked on a floating platform to create these buoyant student halls of residence designed by Bjarke Ingels' firm for Copenhagen harbour (+ slideshow). More about BIG stacks shipping containers to create floating student housing in Copenhagen harbour
Outgoing Tate galleries director Nicholas Serota has waded into the feud between Neo Bankside residents and Tate Modern, whose new viewing platform overlooks the luxury housing development on London's South Bank. More about Neo Bankside residents should add net curtains to stop gallery visitors spying says Tate director
Dezeen promotion: architects and designers are invited to submit entries to this year's A' Design Awards (+ slideshow). More about Call for entries to A' Design Awards and Competition 2017
The controversial Thomas Heatherwick-designed Garden Bridge is to come under further scrutiny, as London mayor Sadiq Khan has announced a review to assess whether the project provides value for money. More about London mayor launches inquiry into finances of contentious Garden Bridge
Competition: Dezeen has teamed up with Not-Another-Bill to give away four three-month subscriptions to its design gift service (+ slideshow). More about Competition: win a subscription to Not-Another-Bill's surprise gift service
Atelier Lame has added a steel-framed extension to an old stone house in a Parisian suburb, as part of a renovation that creates ample storage for an avid CD and record collector (+ slideshow). More about Steel and glass extension added to traditional stone house in Paris by Atelier Lame
London Design Festival 2016: Studio Furthermore injected sponge and foam with porcelain to create this collection of vessels (+ slideshow). More about Studio Furthermore creates ceramic homeware from sponges
The zigzagging roof of this wooden holiday home in Buenos Aires by local practice Estudio Borrachia provides shade for a series of terraces, and will eventually be covered in wildflowers and grass (+ slideshow). More about Zigzagging roof covers Buenos Aires holiday home by Estudio Borrachia
American firms Rogers Partners and Nelson Byrd Waltz have conceived a raised, tree-lined park for Atlanta, Georgia, that would be built atop rail tracks and a busy roadway (+ slideshow). More about Elevated urban park in Atlanta would stretch over a rail line and highway
If the government is serious about putting design at the heart of post-Brexit Britain, it must support creative education says Hannah Paterson from the Design Business Association in this Opinion column. More about "Now, more than ever, we need support for creative education"
Today's radical ideas rarely come from designers according to Istanbul Design Biennial curators Beatriz Colomina and Mark Wigley, who say the entire industry is 200 years out of date (+ interview). More about "Design has gone viral, but design community is stranded" say Istanbul Design Biennial curators
A row of brightly coloured beach huts and an elevated promenade will be integrated into this sea wall designed by Snug Architects to protect the coastal English town of Milford-on-Sea (+ slideshow). More about Colourful beach huts will double as coastal defence wall in southern England
One-minute movie: in this exclusive movie for Dezeen, Bjarke Ingels explains how his firm BIG created an undulating pavilion on the lawn of the Serpentine Gallery using thousands of fibreglass blocks stacked on top of each other.
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London Design Festival 2016: "you can have surround sound with your chandelier, vase and centrepiece" in the world imagined by the 28 designers contributing to the Electro Craft exhibition (+ slideshow). More about Designers blend craft and electronics to explore new possibilities for home appliances
The Eisenhower family has withdrawn its rejections to the Frank Gehry-designed memorial, proposed for Washington DC to honour the 34th president of the United States (+ slideshow). More about Gehry's Eisenhower Memorial finally approved by former US president's family
The Norwegian government has offered to abandon plans for a memorial to the 77 people murdered during the terrorist attacks of 22 July 2011, after fierce opposition by local residents. More about Norway moves to scrap plans for controversial Utøya memorial