News: there will be no curved or glass walls on any new school buildings constructed in the UK, thanks to a set of government guidelines released this week. More about UK government bans curved school buildings
News: Cadbury has won the right to stop rival chocolate makers using its signature colour, Pantone 2685C purple, on their wrappers. More about Cadbury wins court battle over trademark Pantone 2658C purple wrappers
This gabled farmhouse by architects Budapesti Műhely is a contemporary interpretation of a traditional Hungarian peasant house (+ slideshow). More about H House by Budapesti Műhely
A wave-like wooden ceiling undulates above the heads of students at this chapel by architects Gensler in the basement of a Los Angeles university. More about Prayer Chapel by Gensler
This all-white summer house outside Moscow by architect Peter Kostelov has sunbeds and a see-saw but no windows or doors. More about Dacha's Origami by Peter Kostelov
Visitors to this temporary theatre in the Netherlands designed by TAAT perform their own play by reading from wooden cubes based on Buddhist prayer wheels. More about Khor I temporary theatre by TAAT
In this second movie from our series filmed at the Designed in Hackney Day of talks and discussions we hosted in August, technologist James Bridle talks about his recent projects including a series of animations on top of bus shelters that were designed to look "like the internet has escaped out into the street". More about "The internet has escaped out into the street" - James Bridle at Designed in Hackney Day
Beijing Design Week: A constellation of illuminated ceramic yoghurt pots hangs in the stairwell of a former bicycle factory in an installation by designers Aidia Studio for Beijing Design Week. More about Milkywave by Aidia Studio
Architects FAT have teamed up with artist Grayson Perry to design a house inspired by fairytales on the east coast of England. More about A House for Essex by FAT and Grayson Perry
This art museum by architect Renzo Piano straddles a canal in Oslo's harbour (+ slideshow). More about Astrup Fearnley Museet by Renzo Piano Building Workshop
This bright red youth centre in Denmark by architects Cornelius + Vöge is coloured to match the fishing cabins of the surrounding village (+ slideshow). More about Youth Centre by Cornelius + Vöge
London Design Festival: delicate flowers and foliage are protected by the steel cages around these concrete vases by Korean designer Seung-Yong Song. More about V4 vases by Seung-Yong Song
News: architect Frank Gehry has today unveiled proposals for a major new art gallery and university complex at the centre of Toronto's entertainment district. More about Frank Gehry unveils plans for Toronto's entertainment district
In this first movie from the series we filmed at our Designed in Hackney Day of talks and discussions, architects Maria Smith and Je Ahn of Studio Weave speak to Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs about projects including a bench for 300 people and how they believe "a trap that architects can fall into is thinking that they know how to do everything." More about Architects should be wary of "thinking that they know how to do everything" - Studio Weave
Spanish design studio Masquespacio have turned a dilapidated Valencia art gallery into an office for a law firm, featuring clusters of empty picture frames on the walls (+ slideshow). More about Zapata y Herrera lawyers' office by Masquespacio
French artists Christophe Berdaguer and Marie Péjus have converted an old house in France into a visitor centre by giving it a ghostly cloak of polystyrene and paint. More about Gue(ho)st House by Berdaguer & Péjus
News: German industry needs to move away from the minimalist, Bauhaus-inspired aesthetic and develop a new design language is order to stay competitive, according to the organiser of the country's national design prize. More about Germany needs "new design language" - German design prize organiser
Architect Hiroyuki Miyake used a traditional English bricklaying pattern for the ceramic tiles on the walls of this beauty salon in Toyokawa, Japan. More about Granny.F by Hiroyuki Miyake
Dutch studio BaksvanWengerden has added a splayed concrete extension to a triangular brick house in north Holland (+ slideshow). More about SH House by BaksvanWengerden
Product news: every table, chair, lamp and light switch in this furniture collection by Italian designer Loredana Bonora is covered in crocheted yarns of cotton, PVC, plastic tape and even washing lines. More about Nodi Contemporanei by Loredana Bonora