Architect Sadie Morgan of dRMM has vowed to put design at the heart of a £100 billion revamp of UK infrastructure, after being named as a member of a government commission that will advise on how the money should be spent. More about Sadie Morgan to fight for design in £100 billion UK infrastructure review
Garments that present different futures for fashion by designers including Viktor&Rolf, Hussein Chalayan and Iris van Herpen are on show at Stockholm's Liljevalchs Konsthall (+ slideshow). More about Utopian Bodies: Fashion Looks Forward exhibition presents futuristic garments
Copenhagen company Biomega is launching a lightweight electric bicycle by KiBiSi, the Danish design supergroup co-founded by architect Bjarke Ingels (+ slideshow). More about KiBiSi introduces lightweight OKO electric bicycle for Biomega
Dutch Design Week 2015: Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Dan Adlešič has created a collection of purposefully ridiculous electronic products that only work in response to unconventional movements. More about Dan Adlešič's absurd electronics respond to theatrical behaviour
Serpentine Gallery director Julia Peyton-Jones, who launched the Serpentine Pavilion commission and turned the tiny London arts venue into one of the UK's most influential architecture clients, is to step down after 25 years.
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This house in Osaka by Japanese studio Tato Architects features walls that step back and forth, worktops that merge with staircases, and windows that wrap around entire rooms (+ slideshow). More about Tato Architects' House in Toyonaka is divided into offset horizontal volumes
Fashion designer Hussein Chalayan has created elasticated costumes and sequinned garments for performers in his first self-directed dance production (+ slideshow). More about Hussein Chalayan debuts first dance production at London's Sadler's Wells
British studio Haworth Tompkins has completed its third building for the Royal College of Art's campus in London's Battersea – an industrial-style facility for ceramics, glass and metal-work students (+ slideshow). More about Haworth Tompkins adds another building to Royal College of Art's Battersea campus
Our job of the week on Dezeen Jobs is for a CAD sculptor/digital 3D modeller at tech giant Apple, based at its headquarters in Cupertino, California. Visit the ad for full details or browse other architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs.
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This glazed pavilion-like living space by Argentinian studio Alarciaferrer Arquitectos traverses a shallow ravine that runs through a eucalyptus forest to the shore of Lake Los Molinos (+ slideshow). More about Glass pavilion by Alarciaferrer Arquitectos bridges a lakeside gully in Argentina
Dezeen promotion: a new course for digital designers, artists and makers is due to start at the École des Ponts ParisTech next year (+ slideshow). More about ENPC to launch Computational Design and Making course in January 2016
Dutch Design Week 2015: Tilburg's TextielMuseum has worked with Dutch designer Hella Jongerius to launch a collection of plaid throws developed by Simone Post and Studio Truly Truly (+ slideshow). More about TextielMuseum collaborates with Dutch designers on plaid textile collection
Architecture studio Penda has designed a meadow containing sunken pathways and concealed meeting places, which opens next month as part of China's International Garden Expo 2015. More about Penda highlights global water crisis with meadow pathway installation
Pierre-Alain Dupraz Architecte chose exposed concrete for this cross-shaped kindergarten and crèche in Switzerland, giving it an austere appearance (+ slideshow). More about Pierre-Alain Dupraz houses Swiss kindergarten within quartet of concrete blocks
London designer Paul Cocksedge is exhibiting a series of furniture created by joining different metals through a freezing process at New York's Friedman Benda gallery. More about Paul Cocksedge's Freeze exhibition of metal furniture opens at Friedman Benda in New York
Opinion: sci-fi films, comic books and wild hypothetical ideas by architectural theorists like Archigram and Cedric Price have helped shape the world we live in today. Darran Anderson identifies the next wave of unwitting futurists who could change the way architecture functions. More about "Architecture's eccentrics and outsiders can be retrospectively recast as prophets"
Chicago City Council members have voted in favour of MAD Architects' controversial design for the George Lucas Museum of Narrative Art on the shore of Lake Michigan. More about Chicago approves MAD's George Lucas Museum plans
Dutch Design Week 2015: Dutch furniture designer Piet Hein Eek has joined the debate about whether non-architects should design buildings, saying most architects are "not interested" in construction. More about "Most buildings are drawings filled in by engineers" says Piet Hein Eek
This week's Dezeen Mail features David Chipperfield's "village" of stone dwellings in China (pictured), Renault's Le Corbusier-inspired concept car and a clockwork dildo. There's also the latest news, jobs and reader comments from Dezeen.
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London designer Michael Anastassiades has continued his use of circular shapes and balanced elements in lighting designs to create a new lamp for Italian brand Flos. More about Michael Anastassiades' Copycat lamp for Flos comprises a pair of balanced spheres