London Design Biennale 2016: design duo Barber and Osgerby have installed a giant weathervane at London's Somerset House to help the city's residents find their way "at a time of national turbulence" (+ slideshow). More about Barber and Osgerby bring towering weathervane to London Design Biennale
Residents of the Rogers Stirk Harbour-designed Neo Bankside apartments have threatened legal action, after Tate Modern opened an observation deck that provides views into their private apartments. More about Tate Modern visitors accused of spying on Neo Bankside residents
Architects office HOK has revealed plans to build a 234-metre-high skyscraper in east London that will segregate private and social apartments (+ slideshow). More about Western Europe's tallest residential skyscraper to be built in London
Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects has transformed an ageing Shanghai office block into a business incubator, featuring a new translucent aluminium skin (+ slideshow). More about Shanghai office transformed into aluminium-clad tech incubator by Schmidt Hammer Lassen
German designer Konstantin Grcic has updated Rado's minimal Ceramica watch with a new case and matt black finish (+ slideshow). More about Konstantin Grcic redesigns Rado's Ceramica watch
A climbing wall runs up one side of this corrugated metal-clad house in Jackson, Wyoming, by local architecture firm Carney Logan Burke (+ slideshow). More about Climbing wall provides roof access at Cache Creek Residence by Carney Logan Burke
Students at the Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design have designed and built a prefabricated house in Little Rock, Arkansas, from two modules stacked perpendicular to one another (+ slideshow). More about Architecture students create prefab Cantilever House in Arkansas
London Design Biennale 2016: transparent tubes transport note-filled capsules around the west wing of Somerset House in this installation by Autoban, which is Turkey's addition to the first London Design Biennale (+ slideshow). More about Autoban presents pneumatic messaging system at inaugural London Design Biennale
Brexit: legendary British designer Terence Conran says the UK's "belligerent, cocksure" designers can remain competitive outside of the EU, as long as they have government support. More about Terence Conran: UK government must support the design sector in face of Brexit
Comments update: following the news that Google has scrapped its ambitious Project Ara, readers have been debating whether modular smartphones will ever be commercially viable. More about "This was never going to scale up"
The UK's Royal Navy has tested an autonomous speedboat it believes could completely "change how they operate" (+ slideshow). More about UK's Royal Navy tests drone speedboat on River Thames
This office block in Rio de Janeiro features a triple-layered facade with a window wall, a screen of plants, and a thick lattice of perforated metal (+ slideshow). More about Bernardes Arquitetura completes Rio office block fronted by perforated metal and plants
Architect Murray Barker and artist Laith McGregor have designed two outdoor table tennis tables from monolithic concrete slabs (+ slideshow). More about Murray Barker and Laith McGregor create concrete ping pong tables
Raised on stilts above a field in northeast Belgium, Stal Collectief's self-designed studio features charred timber walls that can be wheeled back to reveal the interior (+ movie). More about Moving walls open Stal Collectief's charred timber workshop to the elements
After 20 years making pushchairs, Dutch company Bugaboo is expanding into a different area of the travel market: luggage (+ slideshow). More about Bugaboo expands beyond pushchairs with first luggage collection
Stacks of recycled materials form tables, benches and stairs in this temporary timber pavilion, designed by architecture students for the grounds of a former beer brewery in Cēsis, Latvia (+ slideshow). More about Students build scaffold-like pavilion topped with mesh "cloud" at former Latvian brewery
A+Awards: next up in our collaboration with Architizer's A+Awards is an apartment building in Austria that is covered in mirrors to reflect the facades of surrounding historic buildings. More about Hope of Glory adds mirrored apartment block to street of historic buildings in Graz
Iceland's dramatic landscape is dotted with equally spectacular religious architecture. Here's eight of our favourite churches built in the country's unique style, which take cues from Modernism (+ slideshow). More about Eight of the most majestic modernist-influenced churches in Iceland
A giant model of London's 17th-century cityscape has been set ablaze on the River Thames to mark the 350th anniversary of the Great Fire of London (+ slideshow). More about Huge wooden model torched on 350th anniversary of Great Fire of London
Deliveroo has become the latest company to scrap its complicated logo in favour of a flat design, launching a pared-back rebrand by London agency DesignStudio (+ slideshow). More about DesignStudio completes minimal rebrand for Deliveroo