An exhibition has opened at London's V&A museum charting the career and legacy of Ove Arup, who "forged a new role for engineers" in the 20th century (+ slideshow). More about V&A stages first major retrospective of pioneering engineer Ove Arup
London creative agency Studio Mills has completed a Manhattan store for online watch brand Larsson & Jennings, featuring a cantilevered display counter and a bar serving typical Swedish refreshments (+ slideshow). More about Larsson & Jennings opens minimal watch boutique in New York's West Village
These new images by British photographer Jim Stephenson offer a look around Herzog & de Meuron's extension to Tate Modern in London, which officially opened on Friday (+ slideshow). More about Tate Modern Switch House by Herzog & de Meuron opens to the public
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill has completed a 55-storey tower in Beijing with exterior glass panels that function as prisms, capturing and refracting daylight (+ slideshow). More about Trapezoidal glass panels create prismatic facades for SOM's Beijing skyscraper
Competition: Dezeen has teamed up with New London Architecture to give readers the chance to win one of five pairs of tickets to a lecture delivered by architecture collective Assemble later this month. More about Competition: win tickets to Assemble's talk for the NLA Annual Lecture
Most Loved: in this exclusive movie, British designer Tom Dixon says the light that helped turn his company into an international brand would have been less successful if the design had achieved what he set out to create. More about Tom Dixon says his hugely popular Mirror Ball light is "a failure in design terms"
Architecture studio Edwards Moore has converted a small Melbourne apartment into a Airbnb-style rental property, where guests are invited to buy the furniture, art and accessories when they leave. More about Guests can buy the furniture inside Melbourne flat renovated by Edwards Moore
Design Miami/Basel 2016: Italian design collective Nucleo has continued to cast furniture in resin, this time including a classic bentwood Thonet chair among three new pieces for Cologne's Ammann Gallery (+ slideshow). More about Nucleo traps Thonet chair in resin for Ammann Gallery
Archi-Union Architects has added a slatted timber extension on top of an old concrete and brick factory building in Shanghai, turning it into a showroom and workspace for a ceramic artist (+ slideshow). More about Archi-Union Architects transforms abandoned Shanghai warehouse into ceramicist's atelier
This ribbon of weathering steel meanders through a Copenhagen housing estate, creating a path, slide and aerial walkway (+ slideshow). More about Holscher Nordberg Architects creates play area framed by a single metal ribbon
London Festival of Architecture 2016: 60 years after John Leslie Martin completed the Fitzhugh Estate in London, photographer Sharon O'Neill visited to see if the project lived up to its promises (+ slideshow). More about Blueprint for Living: Sharon O'Neill photographs a 60-year-old post-war housing estate
People's impromptu sketches of bicycles have been turned into a series of absurd-looking digital renderings in the Velocipedia project (+ slideshow). More about Velocipedia project brings hopeless bicycle drawings to life with digital renders
Zaha Hadid 1950-2016: Danish architect Bjarke Ingels reflects on the huge impact visiting Zaha Hadid's Vitra Fire Station had on him as a student in the next movie from our exclusive video series. More about Visiting Zaha Hadid's Vitra Fire Station was an "eye-opening experience," says Bjarke Ingels
French designer Mathieu Lehanneur has renovated a cafe inside the Louvre in Paris, adding modern pink acrylic light fixtures that contrast with their historical surrounds (+ slideshow). More about Mathieu Lehanneur adds pink light fittings to interior of Louvre's Cafe Mollien
Japanese brand Muji is introducing a range of handmade homeware – including woodwork, ceramic and glass pieces – to its stores (+ slideshow). More about Muji launches collection of homeware handcrafted by Japanese artisans
Iran is "on the verge of a new era for architecture" according to local architects, resulting in a boom in contemporary residential and infrastructure projects. We've pinned some of the best examples to a new Pinterest board, including a bridge encouraging pedestrians to "wander and get lost" and a Tehran apartment block with faceted window frames.
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Overlapping angled fins clad in pre-rusted steel extend from the front of this crescent-shaped office building in Surat, India, by Mumbai architect Sanjay Puri (+ slideshow). More about Sanjay Puri uses weathering steel to create layered facade for The Crescent office block
Graduate shows 2016: architecture student Evan Wakelin has produced drawings that juxtapose the old and new homes of migrants in Toronto, to convey the emotional and physical upheaval these people experience (+ slideshow). More about Evan Wakelin uses architectural collages to depict the fragmented identities of migrants
Music: Berlin-based studio A Nice Idea Every Day explores the relationship between boss and employee via various social media outlets in this new music video. More about A Nice Idea Every Day creates Snapchat-inspired video for Peter, Bjorn & John
NeoCon 2016: British fashion designer Paul Smith has interpreted a print from his Spring Summer 2015 collection as a patterned textile for US company Maharam. More about Paul Smith launches checked textile for Maharam at NeoCon 2016