Competition: win a trip to Milan courtesy of MINI
Roger Arquer designs a nutcracker to “tickle the soul”
Vo Trong Nghia unveils second prototype for low-cost Vietnamese housing
Rogers Stirk Harbour unveils waterfront skyscrapers for first Middle East job
Formafantasma uses saxophones and a brass pendulum to track the passing of time
Brutalist buildings: Unité d’Habitation, Marseille by Le Corbusier
Ilona Gaynor designs staging for a hypothetical court case
Foster + Partners combines the cruising yacht with the day boat to create Alen 68 vessel
Piero Gandini to sell Italian lighting brand Flos to private equity fund
Sebastian Wrong debuts new Wrong for Hay designs at pop-up restaurant
Joanna Laajisto bases storage boxes on paper-sizing system
Sliding doors connect John McLaughlin’s timber-framed Open House with its garden
Bouroullec brothers and Richard Rogers honoured with London Design Medal awards
Tokyo Designers Week to make Tent London debut at London Design Festival 2014
Salt water-powered electric car approved for roads in Europe
Kindergarten by Ecker Architekten features an austere colour palette and a spiral staircase
“There was good brutalism and bad, but even the bad was done in earnest”
Keiichi Matsuda to “explore the future of the city” in new film
Chamber design gallery opens in New York’s Chelsea
Fumihiko Maki completes white granite museum for the Aga Khan Foundation
Barber and Osgerby’s giant rotating mirrors reflect Raphael paintings inside the V&A
Guinée*Potin Architectes creates “footcheball” playground inside a thatched shed
Risa spiral staircase by Tron Meyer features fanning timber steps