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
London Design Festival 2014: a spinning disk covered in changing glowing patterns illuminates the dimly lit Tapestry Gallery in London's V&A museum (+ movie). More about Candela installation creates luminous patterns as it spins inside dark V&A gallery
London Design Festival 2014: the Dezeen and MINI Frontiers exhibition features ideas for the future of travel created by six cutting-edge young designers (+ slideshow). More about Dezeen and MINI unveil visions for the future of mobility at London Design Festival
Sports brand Nike has unveiled the Lebron 12, a basketball shoe with five hexagonal air bags built into the sole to provide "accelerated explosiveness" (+ slideshow). More about Nike revamps the basketball shoe for LeBron James
London Design Festival 2014: the new Galerie Kreo in Mayfair is showing furniture editions by designers including the Bouroullec brothers, Jasper Morrison, Konstantin Grcic and Jaime Hayon for its inaugural exhibition. More about Galerie Kreo launches London gallery with work by Grcic, Hayon, Bouroullecs and more
Dezeen and MINI Frontiers: in the penultimate preview of our Dezeen and MINI Frontiers exhibition, which opens to the public tomorrow, Matthew Plummer-Fernandez shows us how he will generate personalised 3D-printable driving companions for visitors at the show. More about Matthew Plummer-Fernandez to present "personalised avatars for your vehicle"
Music producer Will.i.am has taken his much-vaunted interest in design a step further by teaming up with George Gorrow, co-founder of fashion brand Ksubi, to create his own eyewear range (+ slideshow). More about Will.i.am launches eyewear range with designer George Gorrow
An interactive installation in Lisbon aims to encourage pedestrians to wait until it's safe to cross the road by making the traffic lights "dance" using motion capture technology (+ movie). More about Interactive dancing traffic lights make waiting more entertaining
News: a competition to design a new Guggenheim Museum building in the Finnish capital has attracted more than 1,700 entries – more than any competition of its kind – but opponents to the scheme have launched a rival ideas contest. More about Controversial Helsinki Guggenheim competition attracts record number of entrants
Competition: to coincide with the Brutalism series on Dezeen, we've teamed up with UK publisher Café Royal Books to give away a bundle of photography books featuring buildings including Trellick Tower and Preston Bus Station. More about Competition: win a bundle of five photobooks on Brutalist buildings
A minimal arch frames the entrance to this former farmhouse that architect Manuel Aires Mateus has transformed into a modern retreat in the rural landscape of Portugal's Alentejo region (+ slideshow). More about Manuel Aires Mateus revives a Portuguese farmhouse to create Casa no Tempo
Designer Gerard Rubio has created an open source robotic loom that is able to knit entire seamless garments in less than one hour (+ movie). More about OpenKnit is an open source 3D-knitting machine that creates garments in just one hour