Zaha Hadid has paid tribute to "inspirational and enlightening" late German architect Frei Otto, while Norman Foster said Otto's "extraordinary structures altered the nature of architectural form in the 20th century". More about Hadid and Foster lead tributes to "great architect, inventor and gentleman" Frei Otto
China's days as a major producer of fake designer goods are numbered, according to Design Shanghai's creative director Ross Urwin. More about "China's copying days are coming to an end" says Design Shanghai creative director
Swathes of lace and satin textiles were tied into stuffed bundles and bows to create Japanese fashion house Comme des Garçons' Autumn Winter 2015 collection shown at Paris Fashion Week. More about Comme des Garçons swaddles models in fabric cocoons for Autumn Winter 2015
Renzo Piano has become the latest architect to contribute a design to the major redevelopment of Sydney's Barangaroo South waterfront (+ movie). More about Renzo Piano joins Rogers Stirk Harbour and Wilkinson Eyre for Sydney harbour overhaul
Dezeen promotion: the Wood Awards: Excellence in Architecture and Product Design is inviting architects and designers in the UK to submit entries for this year's competition. More about Wood Awards 2015 call for entries
Dezeen remembers 2015 Pritzker laureate Frei Otto, who passed away this week at the age of 89, with some of the best projects from his pioneering career as a champion of tensile and membrane architecture and an early adopter of 3D modelling. More about Frei Otto: a life in projects
Japanese studio Hiroyuki Ogawa Architects has created a smoking room that is designed to never be smoky inside a shopping centre on the outskirts of Tokyo (+ slideshow). More about Smoking room designed by Hiroyuki Ogawa to offer clean air instead of fumes
A cage-like structure made from strips of mirrored metal and red plastic encases this Seoul office building by South Korean studio Wise Architecture (+ slideshow). More about Red mirrored lattice encloses South Korean office block by Wise Architecture
Design Indaba 2015: jewellery items in this collection by South African designer Ashley Heather are made from silver salvaged from discarded electronic products. More about Ashley Heather reclaims precious metal from circuit boards to create jewellery
A curving wall of rammed earth channels a stream of water around the edge of this horse riding centre near Melbourne, by London studio Seth Stein Architects and local firm Watson Architecture + Design (+ slideshow). More about Equestrian centre on Australia's south coast features a curving rammed-earth wall
German architect Frei Otto, who died on Monday aged 89, has been named the 2015 Pritzker Prize laureate. More about Frei Otto posthumously named 2015 Pritzker Prize laureate
Opinion: it's time for designers to start thinking more like businesspeople, says Bradford Shellhammer, creator of new design e-commerce site Bezar and co-founder of Fab. More about "You're a design entrepreneur, not a designer"
Geneva Motor Show 2015: car manufacturers are helping to change outdated perceptions of hybrid and electric vehicles by using the technologies in faster, sleeker cars, finds Dezeen's motoring correspondent Ross Bryant. More about Six of the best electric and hybrid car designs from the 2015 Geneva Motor Show
Eva Jiřičná, Richard Meier and John Pawson have been added to a growing list of architects creating designs for Oaks Prague, a major new housing and hotel scheme near the Czech capital (+ slideshow). More about Eva Jiřičná, Richard Meier and John Pawson recruited for village-like development near Prague
Voluminous origami-influenced garments and headdresses featured in Japanese fashion designer Junya Watanabe's catwalk show during Paris Fashion Week. More about Junya Watanabe folds textiles into mathematical patterns for Autumn Winter 2015
Comments update: Apple's newly launched MacBook computer and Will.i.am's comments on 3D-printing human bodies were the most discussed stories this week. More about "Apple is putting form over function"
London's Royal College of Art has been hit by more senior staff changes, with Ab Rogers (above) stepping down as head of the Interior Design programme, Clare Johnston retiring as head of Textiles and Jeremy Myerson departing as head of research institute the Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design. More about "Changing of the guard" as more senior staff step down at Royal College of Art
Designer Thomas Heatherwick has completed a university building in Singapore made up of 12 towers that resemble giant parsnips (+ slideshow). More about Heatherwick's textured-tower university building completes in Singapore
Japanese studio Nendo has turned woven bamboo baskets into backrests for chairs and storage compartments for tables in this furniture range (+ slideshow). More about Nendo's Tokyo Tribal furniture incorporates bamboo baskets
Design Indaba 2015: designer Kathryn Fleming has presented prototypes for new organisms that could be created using synthetic biology, including a cat-dog hybrid with reflective fur and a tightrope-walking herbivore. More about Kathryn Fleming proposes engineering animals to thwart extinction