Small square openings are scattered across the facade of this after-school clubhouse in Cannes, France, offering glimpses of the activities taking place within its courtyard playground (+ slideshow). More about Heams & Michel Architectes creates an after-school club around a courtyard in Cannes
Geneva Motor Show 2015: British car manufacturer Rolls-Royce worked with a pair of textiles graduates to design a bespoke interior for its Phantom model using silk, cherrywood and bamboo (+ slideshow). More about Rolls-Royce uses bamboo and silk to create its "most opulent" car interior
Opinion: the fight for London's Aylesbury estate – a negative symbol of the Modernist-inspired drive to standardise housing design – is about saving the ideas not the architecture, explains Owen Hatherley. More about "The places people are staking their lives on now aren't architectural icons"
Pornhub has revealed a tongue-in-cheek concept design for a wearable device that would generate energy from masturbation (+ movie). More about Pornhub's Wankband "creates dirty energy"
Interview: PCH is the $1 billion manufacturing company you've never heard of. With its acquisition of Fab.com, that could be about to change. Dezeen spoke to founder and CEO Liam Casey about his plans to do for design what Zara did for fashion. More about "We understand how to bring design products to market" says PCH founder
News: French architect Jean Nouvel has applied for a court order to disassociate himself from the Paris concert hall, which he says is "non-compliant" with his original design. More about Jean Nouvel takes legal action to distance himself from "unfinished" Philharmonie de Paris
Dezeen and MINI Frontiers: in the second part of our video interview with Ammar Mirjan, the architect explains how drones with cable dispensers attached can be used to quickly build lightweight architectural structures. More about Drones can "weave structures in space in just a few minutes"
A wooden spine extends beneath the diagonally pitched roof of this diamond-shaped house and artist's studio in Japan (+ slideshow). More about House and art studio by Alphaville features a diamond-shaped plan and a pointed roof
Perforated metal panels create a grid of Xs on the outer walls of this family house in Ljubljana by Slovenian studio OFIS Arhitekti (+ slideshow). More about OFIS Arhitekti creates grid of crosses on the facade of Villa Criss-Cross Envelope
The shell of this chair by Royal College of Art student Ryan Jongwoo Choi is created by moulding resin over a crumpled aluminium sheet. More about Ryan Jongwoo Choi's Crumpled Chair is moulded over wrinkled metal
Australian architect Andrew Maynard has doubled the size of a house in Victoria by adding a row of skinny gabled blocks, intended to make the building look like a small village rather than a monolithic block (+ slideshow). More about Andrew Maynard's "anti-monolith" house is made up of seven small blocks
Dezeen and MINI Frontiers: architect and researcher Ammar Mirjan explains how drones could be programmed to construct buildings in the first of two movies about the use of unmanned aerial vehicles in architecture. More about Drones can "collaborate to build architectural structures"
Collages and sketches of designs by the late architect and Future Systems founder Jan Kaplický have been collected together for an exhibition at the Architectural Association in London (+ slideshow). More about Jan Kaplický's futuristic drawings go on show at London's Architectural Association
Comments update: trend forecaster Li Edelkoort's declaration of the death of fashion led the debate this week. More about "Fashion is not dead. Mainstream fashion is dead"
Business news: design e-commerce platform Fab.com has been bought by manufacturing company PCH, which plans to sell unique products alongside the website's existing offering of furniture and accessories. More about Fab acquired by PCH to create "the Netflix of design"
An old train carriage forms one half of this family home in Takasago, Japan, while the other half looks like it could be a railway station (+ slideshow). More about Takanobu Kishimoto's Platform is a home built around a train carriage
Shoes appear to rest on huge rolls of white paper inside this Camper store in Stockholm – the third interior design concept that Japanese studio Nendo has developed for the Spanish shoe brand (+ slideshow). More about Nendo fills Camper's Stockholm store with paper-thin spirals
Australian studio Mihaly Slocombe has returned to a Melbourne home it completed almost a decade ago to add a timber nursery annex patterned with circular cutouts (+ slideshow). More about Mihaly Slocombe extends vineyard home in Australia with wooden nursery
Stockholm 2015: design studio Färg & Blanche has launched a collection of upholstered stools for Gärsnäs, the Swedish furniture brand that already produces its Emma and Emily chairs. More about Färg & Blanche adds Elsa and Jack stools to Gärsnäs furniture family
Lifeguard outposts along Toronto's frozen waterfront have been converted into a series of installations and pavilions, including a set of bright red swings and a spiky timber folly (+ slideshow). More about Designers convert lifeguard towers into winter pavilions for Toronto's frozen beaches