Rough concrete columns are juxtaposed with bright blue aluminium panels at the soon-to-open Issey Miyake flagship store in London by Japanese designer Tokujin Yoshioka (+ slideshow + interview). More about Tokujin Yoshioka designs London flagship store for Issey Miyake
Vertical lengths of timber mask the interior of this chapel designed by AZL Architects in eastern China, which features a distinctive V-shaped roof (+ slideshow). More about Garden chapel by AZL Architects features semi-transparent walls and a butterfly roof
Japanese studio Nendo has teamed up with a traditional Japanese paper moulding specialist to create a collection of pendant light shades with a coloured exterior and reflective interior (+ slideshow). More about Nendo's 3D-moulded light shades use traditional washi paper
News: designs by London studio Priestmangoode are due to be rolled out on four London tube lines in 2020, and could be the first fleet of driverless Underground trains (+ interview + movie). More about Priestmangoode unveils driverless tube train designs for London Underground
Japanese studio Case-Real has completed a small timber-clad cabin at the base of Mount Kamafuse in Saitama Prefecture (+ slideshow). More about Case-Real's House in Nagatoro sits at the base of a mountain
This concrete sports hall by Belgian studio URA has been built into a hillside in the wooded grounds of a school just outside Brussels (+ slideshow). More about School gymnasium by URA nestles into the landscape at a Belgian school
Studiomama has converted the upper floors of a 300 year-old building in Stockholm's medieval old town to create a pair of 200-metre-square apartments with built-in wooden fittings (+ slideshow). More about Studiomama pairs pale wood with marble for revamped 1720s loft in Stockholm
This rural Argentinian home by Luciano Kruk Arquitectos was built from intersecting slabs of timber-imprinted concrete and sheets of glass (+ slideshow). More about Concrete cabin by Luciano Kruk Arquitectos built in an Argentinian woodland
Books are displayed on thin suspended beams that double as garment rails at this minimal Tokyo concept store by Japanese studio Nendo (+ slideshow). More about Nendo's grid of suspended bookshelves hangs above shoppers in Beige fashion boutique
World Architecture Festival 2014: Singapore's creative industries are moving out of the central business district to more affordable light-industrial areas, says architect Colin Seah, who has recently completed a layered workplace building in the Pasir Panjang neighbourhood (+ slideshow). More about Ministry of Design's 100PP joins a wave of "edgy and interesting" buildings for Singapore creatives
Korean design studio 11+ has created a portable humidifier with a transparent bottle, minimal monochrome packaging and a red USB charging cable (+ slideshow). More about 11+ designs USB-powered portable humidifier
UNStudio has completed a theatre in the Dutch town of Spijkenisse, featuring a spotty facade that glows purple at night and an auditorium with a ceiling that moves to improve acoustics (+ slideshow). More about UNStudio's Theatre de Stoep improves its acoustics with a moving auditorium ceiling
World Architecture Festival 2014: architect Ole Scheeren has revealed more about the motivations behind The Interlace, an "important prototype" for housing where horizontal buildings are stacked diagonally across one another to frame terraces, gardens and plazas (+ slideshow). More about Ole Scheeren's The Interlace envisioned as "a blatant reversal" of tower-block housing
A solo exhibition of Dutch designer Aldo Bakker's sculptural furniture, including a minimal swing and a number of more ambiguous objects, is on display at a Rotterdam gallery (+ slideshow). More about Aldo Bakker exhibits new designs at Galerie Vivid Rotterdam
Vienna Design Week 2014: Bulgarian designer Valentin Vodev has launched a folding bike that can be wheeled when folded and uses a magnet to create the locking system that holds the frame together (+ slideshow). More about Valentin Vodev's Vello bike folds with "a simple kick" thanks to one big magnet
Dutch studio i29 has refitted the interior of a two-bedroom garage conversion in the centre of Amsterdam (+ slideshow). More about i29 converts Amsterdam garage into a single-storey apartment
Pneumatic arms lift the walls of Sean Godsell's MPavilion, the project billed as Australia's answer to the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion, which opened to the public today in Melbourne's Queen Victoria Gardens (+ slideshow). More about Sean Godsell unveils inaugural MPavilion designed to "bloom like a flower"
A collection of differently sized cuboids make up the volume of this family house in Shiga, Japan, designed by architect Kouichi Kimura to offer "versatile spaces" with "light and scenery" (+ slideshow). More about Kouichi Kimura's Scape House uses a variety of windows to create a hierarchy of views
Vertical strips of masonry wrap around the buildings and playgrounds that make up Forfatterhuset Kindergarten, a new preschool in Copenhagen by Danish studio COBE (+ slideshow). More about COBE's Copenhagen kindergarten designed as a "village for children"
The top floor of this former Soviet telecommunications building in the centre of Moscow has been converted by studio Archiproba into an open plan office for a technology company (+ slideshow). More about Archiproba transforms 1920s telecommunications building into offices in Moscow