We're not making it up: Leeser Architecture of New York have won a competition to design the World Mammoth and Permafrost Museum in Yakutsk, Siberia. More about Mammoth and Permafrost Museum by Leeser Arch.
Finnish design duo Company present an exhibition called Top Secrets of Finland at the Kiasma contemporary art museum in Helsinki. More about Top Secrets of Finland by Company
Type the Sky by Lisa Rienermann is an alphabet formed of shapes buildings make against the sky when photographed from below. More about dezeen loves... Type the Sky
Here are some photos of the newly opened expansion of the Akron Art Museum in Akron, Ohio, USA designed by Austrian architects Coop Himmelb(l)au. More about Akron Art Museum by Coop Himmelb(l)au
Italian design brand Tacchini will hold the UK launch of its new furniture collection in London this September. More about UK launch of Tacchini collection
Board Room is an installation by Atelier van Lieshout at the new Hayward Projects Space at the Hayward Gallery in London. More about Board Room by Atelier van Lieshout
RCA summer show 07: Design Products graduate Jordi Canudas has sent some new images of Wallfa, a screen-cum-sofa he exhibited at the Royal College of Art summer show last month. More about Wallfa by Jordi Canudas
OMA in the Middle East: Office for Metropolitan Architecture have sent us some new renderings, plans and sections of Porsche Design Towers I and II, which they are jointly designing with Porsche Design. More about Porsche Design Towers by OMA/Porsche Design
Phillips de Pury & Company will present an exhibition of 16 lights by American designer-artist Marcus Tremonto in New York this December. More about Lightworks by Marcus Tremonto
Carmaker BMW has published the results of a UK-based study into the way people behave and feel while travelling in cars, both as drivers and passengers. The findings come in a report called "The Secret Life of Cars and What They Reveal About Us", which was commissioned to help BMW understand drivers' current and future needs. More about The Secret Life of cars by BMW
Typographic designer Pippo Lionni presents an installation called Everlastingblast as part of the Material Culture: Contemporary American Design exhibition at Max Lang Gallery in New York. More about Everlastingblast by Pippo Lionni
Tonight (Friday) saw the opening of an installation by Brazilian designers the Campana Brothers in the John Majedski Garden at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London. More about Campana Brothers at the V&A
We've updated our blog for the Design Museum's Zaha Hadid exhibition with new content, including photos and movie footage of Metapolis II, a ballet featuring stage designs by Hadid that opens at the Lincoln Center in New York next week (above and below). More about Zaha Hadid blog update
Furniture designer Matthew Hilton (below) will launch a new range of furniture under his own brand for the first at the 100% Design show in London this September. More about Matthew Hilton by Matthew Hilton
Slovenian architects OFIS have completed two apartment projects, including a block in a mountain village near Ljubljana that is based on local Alpine hayracks (above). More about Hayrack Apartments by OFIS Arhitekti
OMA in the Middle East: Office for Metropolitan Architecture have designed a new international airport for Jeddah in Saudi Arabia. More about Jeddah International Airport by OMA
OMA in the Middle East: RAK Gateway is a masterplan by Office for Metropolitan Architecture for a large urban development at Ras Al Khaimah, the northernmost of the United Arab Emirates. More about RAK Gateway by OMA
Studioilse, the design studio of Ilse Crawford, has designed the Club Room at the Wellcome Collection centre for medical science and art in London. More about Wellcome Collection Club Room by Studioilse
Here are some snaps taken at Things I have Learned in My Life So Far - an exhibition of the work of legendary graphic designer Stefan Sagmeister at the SuperSpace gallery in Belgrade. More about Stefan Sagmeister in Belgrade
OMA in the Middle East: Office for Metropolitan Architecture has sent images and text of its Kuwait Al-Rai Development Masterplan - a study for a major mixed development in Kuwait City. More about Kuwait Al-Rai masterplan by OMA
