London is to get a new, smaller version of Thomas Heatherwick's New Routemaster bus – although the British designer has had nothing to do with this iteration (+ slideshow). More about Heatherwick welcomes new London bus inspired by his design as "back-to-front" compliment
London is fast turning into the global centre for the collectible design market, with sales growing, new galleries opening and auction records tumbling. More about London is becoming "the most important place for collectible design" say gallerists
London-based Universal Design Studio has built an entrance pavilion and a vast temporary structure to house the Frieze Art Fair, taking place in Regent's Park this week (+ slideshow). More about Universal Design Studio creates venue for London's Frieze Art Fair
Planks of black-coloured timber were arranged in a diagonal formation to create the venue for an exhibition that celebrated weeds during this year's London Design Festival (+ slideshow). More about Claridge Architects designs blackened timber pavilion for Plants Out Of Place exhibition
Competition: Dezeen is offering readers the chance to win one of five copies of the latest London Design Guide – a 208-page directory of the city's creative hotspots (+ slideshow). More about Competition: five copies of London Design Guide to be won
UK studio Caruso St John has created Gagosian's third and largest gallery in London, featuring dark oak flooring and a glass ceiling, which opened ahead of this week's Frieze art fair (+ slideshow). More about Caruso St John's Gagosian Grosvenor Hill art gallery opens in London
Parasitic apartments blocks over fire stations and starter homes floating on waterways are among the 10 winning designs in a New London Architecture competition to find solutions to London's housing shortage (+ slideshow). More about NLA unveils 10 winning designs in ideas competition addressing London's housing crisis
Original features are paired with blackened steel in modular concrete furniture brand Isomi's first factory in London's Clerkenwell (+ slideshow). More about Paul Crofts Studio creates Isomi showroom in former London print factory
Movie: in the next instalment of our exclusive video series with Julia Peyton-Jones, the Serpentine Gallery director recalls her trip to Brazil to convince Oscar Niemeyer to design the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion in 2003. More about Oscar Niemeyer "took the brief very seriously" for 2003 Serpentine Gallery Pavilion
London Design Festival 2015: to celebrate British design brand Another Country's five-year anniversary, Studio Dessuant Bone has designed a lamp to reflect the company's origins in the seaside county of Dorset (+ slideshow). More about Studio Dessuant Bone's Jurassic Light 117 is influenced by the Dorset coastline
London Design Festival 2015: windows that charge electronic devices and benches produced using solar power were among the sustainable products, furniture and food items exhibited across four floors at London gallery 19 Greek Street (+ slideshow). More about 19 Greek Street transforms gallery into apartment for The Art of Progress exhibition
London Design Festival 2015: UK design studio Fredrikson Stallard has produced a collection of sculptural furniture – including a sofa that looks like a chunk of rock – to mark its 10th anniversary (+ slideshow). More about Fredrikson Stallard creates crumpled metal and rock-like furniture for Momentum collection
Images have emerged of Damien Hirst's Newport Street Gallery – designed by London architecture studio Caruso St John in a row of converted and extended theatre warehouses. More about First official images of Damien Hirst's south London gallery released
British artist Lucy Sparrow is filling an adults-only shop in London's Soho district with sex toys, porn magazines and bondage gear all made of felt. More about Lucy Sparrow tackles "prudery" with stitched sex shop in London's Soho
The Royal College of Art has suspended its world-famous Design Interactions course after failing to find replacements for staff who resigned earlier this year. More about RCA in "state of jeopardy" after Design Interactions staff departures
Small Discoveries: Viennese design duo Mischer'Traxler explain why they filled a room at London's V&A Museum with hundreds of fluttering insects in our latest movie for Champagne brand Perrier-Jouët. More about Mischer'Traxler's interactive Curiosity Cloud installation is "like being in a dream"
Opinion: London's creative classes are caught up in an urban renewal hamster wheel that's affecting property prices across the capital – and there's no way off without leaving the city entirely, says Will Wiles. More about "Creatives are mythologised as the tooth fairies of urban renewal"
Hawkins\Brown has completed a 33-metre-high apartment block in London's Shoreditch, which the studio claims is "the tallest building to use structural cross-laminated timber in Europe" (+ slideshow). More about Hawkins\Brown pairs cross-laminated timber and steel for record-breaking apartment block
London Design Festival 2015: designers including Neville Brody, Morag Myerscough and Malcolm Garrett have reinterpreted the Calvert and Kinneir-designed British road sign for an exhibition at London's Design Museum (+ slideshow). More about Design Museum exhibition celebrates 50 years of British road signage
London Design Festival 2015: London-based Studio Toogood has created an autobiographical "drawing room" filled with furniture, clothing and personal objects at Somerset House (+ slideshow). More about Charcoal sketches cover the walls of The Drawing Room by Faye and Erica Toogood