Movie: Dezeen goes behind the scenes at the factory where the fibreglass blocks that comprise BIG's Serpentine Gallery Pavilion were made in this exclusive video produced for material manufacturer Fiberline. More about BIG and Fiberline reveal manufacturing process behind Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2016
Dezeen promotion: this film by Eizo ColorEdge follows visualisation artist Forbes Massie as he describes his studio's methods for creating images that "your grandmother falls in love with" (+ movie). More about CGI artist Forbes Massie explains his approach in new film by Eizo ColorEdge
Layers of polycarbonate, netting and metal mesh wrap the scaffolding structure of this temporary visitor centre, designed by Peris + Toral Arquitectes for a public square in Barcelona (+ slideshow). More about Peris + Toral Arquitectes uses scaffolding to create temporary pavilion in Barcelona
London Design Festival 2016: a "liberating" adult nappy, poo tableware and an event space furnished with manure are among the offerings at one London Design Festival exhibition (+ slideshow). More about The Shit Museum brings various poo-related designs to London
Australian trade unions have banned construction workers from demolishing one of Sydney's only brutalist buildings, which failed in its bid for heritage listing earlier this summer. More about Unions ban construction workers from demolishing Sydney's brutalist Sirius building
American firm Modus Studio has drastically revamped a ranch-style house in Arkansas by covering the front facade in cedar and Corten steel, and adding an angular extension (+ slideshow). More about Modus Studio cloaks Arkansas home in wood and pre-rusted steel
American artist and designer Daniel Arsham has created a cave from purple spheres as part of his first solo exhibition in New York (+ slideshow). More about Daniel Arsham creates colourful cave from moulded sports balls at Galerie Perrotin
London Design Festival 2016: communal bathing culture is experiencing a global revival according to curator Jane Withers, who has put together an exhibition exploring the phenomenon. More about "People are beginning to rediscover old bathing traditions"
Aaron Betsky finds lessons for western city planners and designers in amongst the mega-blocks, privatised spaces and urban sprawl of Asian cities. More about "We can't stop super-blocks or sprawl, but we have to make space for life in between"
London Design Festival 2016: Turner Prize-winning collective Assemble has produced ceramic tiles that were "smoked" in a barbecue, as part of their ongoing Granby Workshop project (+ slideshow). More about Assemble patterns ceramic tiles by baking them in a barbecue
Comments update: Thomas Heatherwick's design for a huge sculpture made up of 154 interconnected staircases divided opinion this week, with one commenter labelling him the "Coldplay of design". More about "Heatherwick is a master of designing interesting things that nobody asked for"
Dezeen promotion: well-known international designers have each donated glass objects to Luminaire's GlasLove auction (+ slideshow). More about Luminaire to auction off glass objects by Nendo, Tadao Ando and Campana brothers
With the news that David Adjaye has won the 2016 London Design Medal, we've rounded up some of the British architect's most memorable designs, from his long-awaited Washington museum to a range of sustainable underwear (+ slideshow). More about 10 projects worth knowing by architect David Adjaye
Dutch firm OMA's New York office, which is headed by Shohei Shigematsu, has proposed an apartment building with a "prismatic" corner for Manhattan. More about OMA reveals its first residential tower for New York
London Design Festival 2016: Patternity has added a graphic climbing wall adorned with monochrome contours to the basement gym inside east London's Ace Hotel (+ slideshow). More about Guests at London's Ace Hotel can now scale a Patternity-designed climbing wall
Musician Moby has hit out at architects "who think about stuff that can be photographed well, but who never actually plan on spending time in the spaces they create". More about "Sleeping in a dumpster more comfortable" than Zaha Hadid-designed hotel room says Moby
London studio PriestmanGoode has tackled the problem of overcrowding on public transport with new designs that rethink how people sit on their commute (+ movie). More about PriestmanGoode "re-evaluates sitting" with designs to tackle train overcrowding
London Design Festival 2016: architect David Adjaye has won this year's London Design Medal, while industrial designer Kenneth Grange has been given an award for lifetime achievement. More about David Adjaye and Kenneth Grange win London Design Festival medals
A giant illuminated disk hung above a set of circular steps to form the set for designer Anya Hindmarch's collection during this season's London Fashion Week (+ slideshow). More about Anya Hindmarch presents Spring Summer 2017 collection on amphitheatre catwalk
Four micro homes are mounted on the roof of a second-world-war bunker in this proposal by Froscen Architects for the Dutch city Leiden (+ slideshow). More about Tiny houses would be built atop an ex-military bunker in Froscen Architects proposal