Business news: furniture company Poltrona Frau Group has announced a partnership with Patricia Urquiola, which will see the Spanish designer take over the role of art director at Italian brand Cassina. More about Patricia Urquiola named Cassina art director
New York firm AA Studio, in collaboration with Morris Adjmi Architects, has converted a telephone exchange building in Tribeca into a creative services venue, with loft-style areas for photo shoots, film production and fashion shows (+ slideshow). More about AA Studio transforms industrial building in Tribeca into creative hub
London Design Festival 2015: Japanese studio Nendo has created a sliding shelving unit strengthened with carbon-fibre sheets, which will debut at London's Somerset House next week (+ slideshow). More about Nendo's expandable Nest shelves are embedded with carbon fibre
Belgian architects Kersten Geers and David Van Severen have been announced as curators for the 25th edition of the Biennale Interieur, taking place in Kortrijk next year. More about Office KGDVS appointed curators of Biennale Interieur 2016
London Design Festival 2015: French designers Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec are launching their first electronics product – a flat television for Samsung that is outlined by an I-shaped frame. More about Bouroullec brothers' Serif TV for Samsung "does not belong to the world of technology"
Two buildings with gabled profiles extend along the edges of an angular courtyard at the centre of this residential development in Stockholm by Joliark. More about Twin pitched-roof apartment buildings by Joliark look onto a central courtyard
London Design Festival 2015: London designer Lee Broom is launching a collection of glass and marble vases at his Shoreditch showroom, which he will transform to look like a flower shop during the city's design festival (+ slideshow). More about Lee Broom to debut Podium Vases within "immersive" floral installation
World exclusive: Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec have designed a new television for Samsung with a distinctive I-shaped profile, which the French designers say they approached like a piece of furniture (+ movie). More about Bouroullec brothers design new TV for Samsung as a piece of furniture
A geometric pattern based on the shape of lotus flowers is punched into steel panels cladding the upper storeys of this residential and commercial building in the South Korean city of Daegu (+ slideshow). More about Perforated metal panels reveal a staircase in Smart Architecture's Lotus Haus
Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners, Grimshaw, Farrells, and dRMM are among the leading British architects who have contributed designs for a competition aimed at finding solutions to London's housing crisis. More about Architects propose 100 ideas to solve London's housing crisis
London Design Festival 2015: Swiss technology brand Punkt has launched a stripped-back mobile handset designed by British designer Jasper Morrison that only offers basic phone functions. More about Punkt launches Jasper Morrison-designed MP 01 as a "liberating" alternative to smartphones
New York chocolatier Mast Brothers has overhauled its store in Brooklyn to create a stripped-back space that allows visitors to view the chocolate-making process (+ slideshow). More about Mast Brothers designs its own Minimalist chocolate shop in Brooklyn
Wooden boxes surrounding the tables of this noodle bar in the Chinese city of Shenzhen frame views of the city skyline, which is visible through a full-height glazed wall. More about Slatted timber boxes contain dining areas inside Fanbo Zeng's Fun noodle bar
London Design Festival 2015: artist and designer Seetal Solanki is launching her material consultancy studio Matter with a six-day exhibition and programme of events (+ slideshow). More about Matter's first exhibition will explore the future of materials
Competition: Dezeen has teamed up with the Barbican Centre to give readers the chance to win one of three limited-edition prints illustrating the iconic Barbican Estate in London by Manchester-based studio Dorothy (+ slideshow). More about Competition: three limited-edition Barbican Estate prints by Dorothy to be won
Foster + Partners has unveiled designs for a drone port in Rwanda, which will be used to transport urgent medical supplies to remote parts of the East African country via unmanned flying vehicles (+ slideshow). More about Foster reveals plans for Rwandan Droneport to deliver medical supplies in remote areas
Staff at this converted office complex on London's Finsbury Circus can cycle straight into the building and down a ramp that leads to a storage space for 250 bikes (+ slideshow). More about Studio RHE converts three historic buildings into "London's first cycle-in office"
Communications firm Darkhorse has used a camera mounted to a drone to capture footage of Via 57 West, the residential building by Bjarke Ingels Group that is now rising in New York (+ movie). More about Drone video shows progress on New York "courtscraper" by BIG
These three corrugated zinc and galvanised steel cabins by Graal Architecture provide a stilted reading room and sports hall for a nursery school in western Paris (+ slideshow). More about Graal Architecture adds trio of corrugated metal cabins to a kindergarten in France
Architectural firm Pedro Barata e Arquitetos Associados has created a 12-metre-tall periscope in Brazil using a shipping container stood on its end. More about Pedro Barata transforms shipping container into "world's biggest periscope"