London architect Carl Turner has developed a design for a prefabricated floating house and has made the plans available to download via an open-source architecture website. More about Carl Turner design open-source house that floats on floodwater
News: the stalled London skyscraper dubbed the Can of Ham is reportedly back underway at 60-70 St Mary Axe, close to Foster's Gherkin. More about London's "Can of Ham" skyscraper back on after six-year hiatus
A row of aluminium ribs curves away from the serrated glass facade of this research laboratory in England to help shelter occupants from the sun (+ slideshow). More about Laddered metal fins angle from the facade of Cambridgeshire laboratory by Abell Nepp
Architecture studio Sevil Peach has overhauled a house once owned by Victorian painter and illustrator Frederick Barnard to create an artist's residence boasting period features and a patio-side bathtub. More about Home of Charles Dickens illustrator converted by Sevil Peach into an artist's studio
News: Richard Rogers' Leadenhall Building has lost its third steel bolt in three months, developer British Land has revealed. More about Third bolt fractures on Richard Rogers' Cheesegrater skyscraper
News: the creative industries are now worth £76.9 billion per year to the UK, with the design sector enjoying the biggest growth. More about Creative industries in the UK generate £8.8 million per hour
News: the viewing terraces opened today at the top of Rafael Viñoly's so-called Walkie Talkie skyscraper in London, pictured in these exclusive images by photographer Edmund Sumner (+ slideshow). More about Sky Garden opens at the top of Rafael Viñoly's Walkie Talkie
Lengths of brightly coloured garden hose are arranged to resemble a classical fountain in a work by artist Bertrand Lavier currently installed in the grounds of London's Serpentine Sackler Gallery (+ slideshow). More about Bertrand Lavier's "unruly mass" of hoses creates a fountain outside the Serpentine Sackler Gallery
News: Herzog & de Meuron is reportedly working on plans to revamp the west London home of Chelsea Football Club to make room for as many as 60,000 spectators. More about Herzog & de Meuron in the frame for Chelsea FC stadium expansion
A Suffolk house designed by Michael and Patty Hopkins in the 1970s has been overhauled by London studio Project Orange to create "a doughnut of living space" with a conservatory at its centre (+ slideshow). More about Project Orange reconfigures interior of Hopkins' Tracey House
Architecture studio Lipton Plant has turned a small space at the side of a Victorian house in north London into the glazed entrance for a basement extension focused around an oak staircase (+ slideshow). More about Lipton Plant creates a nanny flat underneath a London home
A 64-metre-long wooden structure was designed by Threefold Architects to create secluded workspaces, staircases and informal meeting areas inside this shared office building in south-east London. More about Multi-level wooden structure frames meeting areas in London office by Threefold Architects
Books can be stored beneath the wide steps of this staircase, designed by Zminkowska De Boise Architects to connect the two halves of a split-level living room inside a renovated London flat. More about Zminkowska De Boise inserts combined bookshelf-staircase into London flat
Hexagonal slate tiles cover this extension to a west London home designed by architects Christian Ducker and Tyeth Gundry to create a bright and spacious new kitchen (+ slideshow). More about Gundry and Ducker's Slate House is an extension clad with hexagonal tiles
This rust-coloured copper home extension by British studio Poulsom Middlehurst sits above the red-brick walls and clay-tiled roof of a Victorian terrace in east London. More about Poulsom Middlehurst adds copper-clad extension to east London attic flat
The founder of London gallery and design studio 19 Greek Street has dressed a show apartment for residences created by architects Darling Associates in the city's former Saint Martins School of Art building (+ slideshow). More about 19 Greek Street fits out show apartment at Saint Martin's Lofts
London firm Stanton Williams has completed a house in leafy north London with a timber and stone exterior, green sedum roofs and an entrance that brings residents over a bridge (+ slideshow). More about Hampstead home by Stanton Williams designed to evoke "the spirit of a tree house"
Nineteen London-based designers including Dominic Wilcox and Paul Priestman have created miniature fantasy rooms for an exhibition of Dolls' Houses at the city's Museum of Childhood. More about London designers create tiny dream rooms for Museum of Childhood exhibition
An orange plastic tunnel forms a curvy seating area along the facade of this London office block – the first UK project from José Selgas and Lucía Cano, the architects of next year's Serpentine Gallery Pavilion (+ slideshow). More about SelgasCano completes Second Home workspace featuring an orange tunnel and a "flying table"
Movie: architect David Mikhail explains how he transformed a typical 19th-century London house into a "great family home" with all of its "original dignity" in this movie produced by Living Projects. More about East London home by Mikhail Riches is "a big house that's been knitted back together"