Tokyo Design Week: Here's a fourth project by Torafu architects. The Kiriko Bottle project aims to revive ancient Japanese craftsmanship by using a glass cutting technique to make subtle alterations to everyday glass tableware.
Tokyo Design Week: Takehiro Ando's installations at 100% Design Tokyo consisted of interlocking felt components.
Blue, a residential tower by architect Bernard Tschumi, has opened on New York's Lower East Side. More about Bernard Tschumi’s Blue tower opens
Tokyo Design Week: here's another project from Torafu architects; this time their Nike Air Force 1 shoestore in Harajuku, Tokyo. More about Nike Air Force 1 Store by Torafu Architects
Tokyo Design Week: Here's another project by Torafu architects (see previous story). Boolean is the interior for a café space at the University of Tokyo, using punctured wooden surfaces to enclose the space and frame the outside world. More about Boolean interior by Torafu Architects
Architects HOK Sport have unveiled their design for the stadium for the London 2012 Olympics.
Tokyo design week: Japanese architects Torafu presented images of a house they have designed for Yokohama at the Pecha Kucha x Design Tide event last week. More about House in Yokohama by Torafu Architects
Tokyo design week: Taiwanese designers 22designstudio presented their Concrete Ring Series at designboom mart tokyo 2007, part of 100% Design Tokyo last week. More about Concrete Ring Series by 22designstudio
Tokyo design week: Miyako Andon, a 127-year-old Japanese lighting company, exhibited new products at 100% Light during 100% Design Tokyo last week. More about Miyako Andon at 100% Design Tokyo
Tokyo design week: Dutch designer Piet Hein Eek exhibited work both old and new at design store Cibone last week, during Design Tide and all the other concurrent events. More about Piet Hein Eek at Cibone
Building Design shows a power-generating "wind dam" designed by architects Chetwoods that uses a giant spinnaker sail slung between mountains to funnel wind into a turbine. More about Wind dam by Chetwood Associates
Tokyo design week: Japanese motion graphics company WOW projected several of their works at design store Cibone during Design Tide last week, including this piece.
Designer Robert Stadler's Pentaphone is a suspended booth for cellphone users that isolates the caller from ambient noise in a public space. More about Pentaphone by Robert Stadler
Italian scooter manufacturer Piaggio has launched a new, seventies-styled version of its Vespa range, called the Vespa S. More about New Vespa S by Piaggio
Tokyo design week: Japanese design company Rock Paper Scissors has designed a product that acts as both packaging and a display system for fresh flowers. More about Tu-Tu by Rock Paper Scissors
Architects Alan Dempsey and Alvin Huang have won a competition to design a temporary, freestanding pavilion that will be built in front of the Architectural Association school in London early next year. More about [C]Space Pavilion by Alan Dempsey and Alvin Huang
Tokyo design week: Blossom, a new floor light by Hella Jongerius for Swiss lighting brand Belux, was launched at Tokyo design store Cibone this week as part of Design Tide. More about Blossom light by Hella Jongerius
Check out our Tokyo wheels! We have our own personalised Mazda, generously provided by Tokyo Designers Week and Jetro. But this story is not about traffic jams on Aoyama-Dori but about our visitor figures, which broke all records last month, with over quarter of a million unique visitors. More about Dezeen traffic update
London web designers Poke have created a web page that goes on forever for mobile phone network Orange. More about The never-ending web page by Poke
Tokyo design week: Dutch designer Hella Jongerius has created a series of enamel plates in collaboration with tradtional Japanese enamelware company Ando Shippo of Nagoya. More about Enamel by Hella Jongerius