Dezeen Wire: an arts centre by architect Oscar Niemeyer in the Spanish city of Avilés is to close, having been open to the public for just six months. The regional government claims there are irregularities in The Niemeyer Centre's accounts and has forced it to close for at least the next two months, sparking protests from local residents and business owners - The Guardian
London architects Buckley Gray Yeoman have converted a fire-damaged former market hall in Shoreditch into Corten-clad university offices. More about Fashion Street by Buckley Gray Yeoman
Dezeen promotion: new design fair Qubique takes place from 26 to 29 October in Berlin. More about Qubique 2011
Nick Willson Architects have completed a house in south-east London with sections of the facade clad in flint, timber and lead. More about Flint House by Nick Willson Architects
Vienna Design Week 2011: Austrian designer Konstantin Schmölzer has squeezed a wooden tower into the space between a green wall and glass atrium at Jean Nouvel's Sofitel hotel for Vienna Design Week.
Beijing Design Week 2011: Beijing studio lasfera presented a collection of furniture including handmade lamps of curled bamboo at 751-D Park last week. More about Moolin by lasfera
Dezeen Wire: there has been mixed reaction from architecture critics to Rafael Viñoly's firstsite visual arts centre in Colchester, dubbed the "golden banana" by some commentators. More about Critics review Rafael Viñoly's "golden banana"
London Design Festival 2011: here are some photos of a collection of furniture and lighting by industrial designer Benjamin Hubert for Portuguese brand De La Espada, presented at the Tramshed during the London Design Festival. More about Furniture by Benjamin Hubert for De La Espada
Dezeen Wire: design critic Alice Rawsthorn dicusses the difficulty in accurately defining design, suggesting that more "open" design processes mean anyone can claim to be a designer - The New York Times
Dezeen Wire: here is a roundup of the critics' reactions to Zaha Hadid Architects scooping the RIBA Stirling Prize for the second consecutive year with their design for a school in south London. More about Critics' reactions to Zaha Hadid's Stirling Prize win
Dezeen Platform: Glasgow designer Fraser Ross presents his plant-like LED lamps, trapped under bell jars, which react to the sound and movement of onlookers at Dezeen Platform today. More about Today at Dezeen Platform: Fraser Ross
Light glitters through thousands of tiny perforations in the bumpy steel exterior of a railway control centre in Spain. More about Railway Control Centre by Moreno del Valle
Russian architects Arseniy Borisenko and Peter Zaytsev have completed an outdoor kitchen for a yacht captain that resembles the broken-up hull of a boat. More about Gazebo for TV show by Za Bor Architects
Dezeen Platform: Ariane Prin brings her pencil factory to Dezeen Platform at Dezeen Space today. More about Today at Dezeen Platform: Ariane Prin
A glistening aluminium canopy undulates above the heads of waiting passengers at a bus station in Slough, England. More about Slough Bus Station by Bblur Architecture
Evelyn Grace Academy by Zaha Hadid Architects has won this year’s RIBA Stirling Prize for the greatest contribution to British architecture in the past year. More about Evelyn Grace Academy by Zaha Hadid Architects wins RIBA Stirling Prize
French studio Explorations Architecture have completed a social housing block beside one of the narrowest streets in Paris. More about Passage de la Brie Housing by Explorations Architecture
Dezeen Wire: Vienna Design Week is underway and Dezeen are covering the festival live from Vienna. Highlights include a machine that draws Spirograph-style patterns in quartz sand by Philippe Malouin, a collaboration between Tomas Alonso and one of the city's oldest silver companies and a wooden treehouse by Konstantin Schmolzer that's constructed alongside the vertical garden inside Jean Nouvel's Sofitel hotel. More about Vienna Design Week 30/09 - 09/10
Dezeen Platform: JAILmake Studio will pack seeds and soil into bricks using their one meter by one metre factory at Dezeen Platform at Dezeen Space today More about Today at Dezeen Platform: JAILmake
This time last year Zaha Hadid won the Stirling Prize for the MAXXI National Museum of XXI Century Arts and David Chipperfield was announced as the recipient of the Royal Gold Medal for architecture. More about One Year Ago...