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