News: building work has begun in Beijing on the National Art Museum of China by French architect Jean Nouvel, who beat Frank Gehry and Zaha Hadid in a competition for the project in 2013. More about Construction starts on Jean Nouvel's National Art Museum of China
London Design Festival 2014: artist Jeremy Maxwell Wintrebert explains the concept behind his glass installation at the V&A in this movie produced by Dezeen for champagne brand Perrier-Jouët. More about Jeremy Maxwell Wintrebert installs "simple, geometric shapes" at London's V&A
London Design Festival 2014: architect Amanda Levete has opened a pop-up restaurant in London's Soho where tins of fish and seafood are displayed in a "a museum-type vitrine" before being dished up to customers to eat straight out of the can (+ slideshow). More about Amanda Levete's Tincan restaurant presents tinned seafood as "objects of desire"
London Design Festival 2014: designer Andrea Mancuso and architect Emilia Serra have collaborated with ceramicist Alessio Sarri to create vases by detonating gunpowder-filled wet-clay forms before firing. More about Analogia Project and Alessio Sarri shape vases with explosives
Architect Óscar Miguel Ares Álvarez added a windowless white facade to this former slaughterhouse in a Spanish village, as part of its conversion into a gallery and community centre (+ slideshow). More about Óscar Miguel Ares Álvarez converts Spanish slaughterhouse into community centre
London Design Festival 2014: designers including Jasper Morrison and Ilse Crawford have installed their interpretations of "home" inside house-shaped pavilions in London's Trafalgar Square (+ slideshow). More about Designers interpret "home" for Airbnb Trafalgar Square installation
London Design Festival 2014: London designer Dominic Wilcox has unveiled a life-size concept car design for a future where driverless technologies make the roads safe enough to drive vehicles made of glass (+ slideshow). More about Dominic Wilcox's "car of the future" is driverless and made of stained glass
Architecture for cats, a dancing traffic light and the latest products, installations and exhibitions from London Design Festival 2014 feature in this week's Dezeen Mail issue 220. Click through for the latest news, jobs and reader comments from Dezeen.
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Pharrell Williams has become the second major American music producer to launch a design range this week with trainers and sportswear for Adidas (+ slideshow). More about Pharrell Williams unveils first phase of collaboration with Adidas
Dezeen promotion: Beijing Design Week is returning to the Chinese capital this month to present design, art and creativity from across the country. More about Beijing Design Week 2014 to showcase contemporary Chinese design
British designer Torsten Sherwood developed a scaled-up construction toy to build temporary hideaways for his Designers in Residence commission at London's Design Museum (+ slideshow). More about Torsten Sherwood's new construction toy "takes great inspiration from Lego"
London Design Festival 2014: Dezeen's editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs and designer Dominic Wilcox will both be signing books at the Dezeen Watch Store pop up at designjunction tomorrow – just one of a number of events we are hosting around the city this week. More about Meet Dezeen and Dominic Wilcox at designjunction
News: Dutch firm UNStudio has developed plans for Qatar's first public railway network in an attempt to encourage more of the country's residents to choose public rather than private transport (+ slideshow). More about UNStudio introduces public trains to Qatar with metro project
News: Solveiga Pakstaite, an industrial design student from Brunel University, has won the UK James Dyson award with Bump Mark – an expiry label that decays to tell you when food is no longer safe to eat (+ slideshow). More about "Bio-reactive" expiry marks for food win UK James Dyson Award 2014
London Design Festival 2014: architect Zaha Hadid has launched her first homeware collection, including vessels, candelabras and a chess set, at London department store Harrods (+ slideshow). More about Zaha Hadid homeware collection launches at Harrods
London Design Festival 2014: Ace Hotel Shoreditch London is hosting Super Stimuli and the Extra-Ordinary Gallery, a series of installations including flower displays by Bethan Laura Wood, ceramics by Max Lamb and furniture by Martino Gamper (+ slideshow). More about Fabrica and Modern Design Review curate installations at Ace Hotel Shoreditch
News: structural work has completed on the Museum of Biodiversity in Panama – the first building in Latin America designed by Frank Gehry – ahead of its official opening in October (+ slideshow). More about Frank Gehry's Biomuseo in Panama prepares to open
An elevated concrete tunnel provides the entrance to this house in Cuernavaca, Mexico, created by local architecture studio APT in a converted colonial-style annex (+ slideshow). More about Concrete tunnel extends through an old stone wall at Leyva 506 house by APT
London Design Festival 2014: Tel Aviv designer Nir Meiri has created a collection of vases made from layers of materials stacked in different combinations (+ slideshow). More about Nir Meiri stacks Babilus Vases from rings of bamboo, chipboard and Corian
Brutalism: one of the most revered religious buildings of the Brutalist period is Gottfried Böhm's Church of the Pilgrimage in Neviges, the crystalline structure that abandoned traditional Catholic architecture in favour of sharp angles and rough concrete (+ slideshow). More about Brutalist buildings: Pilgrimage Church, Neviges by Gottfried Böhm