100 Chairs in 100 Days by Martino Gamper is one of seven category winners for the first Brit Insurance Design of the Year Awards, organised by the Design Museum in London. More about Category winners of Designs of the Year awards
Terry Pawson Architects have won approval to build two private houses in a conservation area at Kingston Upon Thames near London. More about Twin Houses by Terry Pawson Architects
Office for Metropolitan Architecture have completed the masterplan for Waterfront City, a new city proposed for Dubai. More about Waterfront City masterplan by OMA
Extra ID jewellery by Dutch designer Anke Weiss imitates the security tags attached to items of clothing in shops to prevent them from being stolen. More about Extra ID by Anke Weiss
Architects Foster + Partners have launched their design for Abu Dhabi World Trade Center, part of the Al Raha Beach development in Abu Dhabi. More about Abu Dhabi World Trade Center by Foster + Partners
Design Indaba 08: a space-saving bed system designed Tsai Design Studio of Cape Town was name Most Beautiful Object in South Africa at the Design Indaba Expo last month. More about Nested Bunk Beds by Tsai Design Studio
Design Indaba 08: IDEO cofounder Bill Moggridge presented this concept tricycle that purifies water as the rider pedals, at the Design Indaba conference in Cape Town last month. More about Aquaduct by IDEO
Designer Martino Gamper has designed every aspect of the Total Trattoria installation at the Aram Gallery in London, including the furniture, tableware, cutlery and food.
More from Tokujin Yoshioka: this time the Swarovski flagship store in Ginza, Tokyo. More about Crystal Forest by Tokujin Yoshioka
Japanese designer Tokujin Yoshioka will launch Bouquet, a new chair for Italian brand Moroso, at the Salone Internazionale del Mobile in Milan next month. More about Bouquet by Tokujin Yoshioka
Young designer Alex Bradley has developed a prototype for a compact cooker for people living alone that combines a hob, chopping board, utensils and a WiFi-enabled screen so that users can call up recipes from the internet. More about Single Person Cooker by Alex Bradley
Another chair from Tokyo-based Nendo: the Diamond chair is based on the atomic structure of diamonds. More about Diamond chair by Nendo
American furniture brand Bernhardt Design, in partnership with Danish brand Danerka, will launch a range of 14 chairs by 11 designers in Milan next month, during the furniture fair. More about Global Edition by Bernhardt Design and Danerka
We finally found time to post photos of design folk having fun at the various parties that took place during the Design Indaba conference in Cape Town the week before last. Above: Maxim Velčovský. More about Design Indaba photos
Here's another project by Japanese designers Nendo. This time an office space near the Meguro river in Tokyo, which they divided by creating walls with cut-outs that almost reach the floor. More about Meguro office space by Nendo
Cabbage Chair is a new product by Japanese designers Nendo made of waste paper from the pleated fabric industry. More about Cabbage Chair by Nendo
London architects Brisac Gonzalez have completed a multi-purpose hall at Aurillac in France. More about Aurillac concert venue by Brisac Gonzalez
Stockholm Design Week: Swedish designers Claesson Koivisto Rune have designed a range of bracelets made of sliced extruded aluminium for jewellery brand Collection Pascale. More about Eve bracelet by Claesson Koivisto Rune
Photographer Iwan Baan has taken a set of photos of the construction of Linked Hybrid in Beijing, a ring of towers linked with aerial bridges designed by architect Steven Holl. More about Construction of Linked Hybrid by Steven Holl
Architects DSDHA have created two cafe pavilions at Pottersfield Park in London, England. More about Pottersfields Park pavilions by DSDHA