British architect David Adjaye and Israeli architect Ron Arad have been named the winners of a competition to create the UK's National Holocaust Memorial in a park near the Houses of Parliament in London. More about David Adjaye and Ron Arad to design UK Holocaust memorial
"Matter-of-fact" materials such as concrete, brick, and timber in muted tones have been used to create this extension to a family home in Stoke Newington, north London. More about Al-Jawad Pike combines brick, concrete and timber for restrained London home extension
Architecture firm JAA has developed a proposal that would see a celebrated brutalist-era car park in London preserved – rather than demolished to build a new hotel. More about London's Welbeck Street car park could be saved with alternative design by JAA
Architect Laura Dewe Mathews has added a staggered red brick extension to a London house, as part of a renovation that involved creating spaces for the clients' various hobbies. More about Laura Dewe Mathews creates spaces for birdwatching and painting in London home of a retired couple
London firm Duggan Morris Architects has completed an office building in London, featuring an aluminium facade in this year's trendiest colour. More about Duggan Morris builds office with millennial-pink exterior in London's King's Cross
This south London house extension by Studio Octopi features a pre-cast concrete staircase that had to be craned into position.
More about Pre-cast concrete staircase forms centrepiece of basement extension by Studio Octopi
For this year's Designs of the Year exhibition, London architecture studio Carmody Groarke has created a cave-like interior made from sprayed paper pulp. More about Carmody Groarke creates cave-like space to showcase Designs of the Year nominees
Dutch designer Daan Roosegaarde recently brought his Waterlicht installation to the UK. This captioned movie shows how it uses lighting projections to recreate the visual sensation of a flood, to raise awareness about rising sea levels. More about Studio Roosegaarde uses light projections to create virtual flood above Derbyshire valley
Design Museum director Deyan Sudjic, curator Glenn Adamson, architect Farshid Moussavi and Dezeen founder Marcus Fairs reflect on the difficulty of predicting the impact of design, in this movie produced by Dezeen for Beazley Designs of the Year. More about It was "a howling error" that the iPhone didn't win Design of the Year in 2008, says Deyan Sudjic
David Connor Design and Kate Darby Architects have transformed a tumbledown cottage in England's West Midlands into a home and studio, enveloping the ruined old structure in a shell of black corrugated metal. More about Kate Darby and David Connor preserve rotting structure in conversion of 18th-century cottage
Danish design collective Superflex has filled the Tate Modern's Turbine Hall with a snaking framework of three-seater swings, which it hopes will encourage social interaction between visitors. More about Superflex installs dozens of swings at Tate Modern to "combat social apathy"
Dimore Studio took cues from the decadent 1960s nightlife spots on the French Riviera for the rose-tinted interiors of this new restaurant at a west London members' club. More about Dimore Studio uses velvet, brass and marble for opulent London supper club
A major new concert venue replacing the Museum of London is to be designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro, the New York architecture firm behind the acclaimed High Line park. More about Diller Scofidio + Renfro wins contest to design £250 million concert hall for London
Chilean architect duo Pezo von Ellrichshausen has worked with Swiss artist Felice Varini to create 16 "outdoor rooms" in Hull, England, featuring steel walls that incorporate optical illusions. More about Pezo von Ellrichshausen installs 16 steel towers in Hull's historic Trinity Square
"Shared space" streets have been called into question after a taxi ploughed into museum-goers on Exhibition Road, a broad boulevard shared by pedestrians and vehicles in London's South Kensington. More about Exhibition Road accident shows it's "time to review shared space" says Labour MP Emma Dent Coad
Marks Barfield Architects co-founder David Marks has died aged 64, following a long illness. More about Architect and London Eye entrepreneur David Marks dies
London architecture firm Studio Ben Allen has built a plywood structure inside a flat in London's brutalist Barbican Estate to create a bedroom for two children, featuring archways, steps and a fold-down desk. More about Studio Ben Allen inserts pale plywood children's bedroom into Barbican flat
Simon Conder Associates has placed a prefabricated, black-stained timber extension on top of a former warehouse in east London, creating a new home for the designers whose studio occupies the old building. More about Black House is a duplex apartment above a converted Victorian warehouse in Hackney
Design fair PAD is in London this week for its 11th edition. We've selected 10 stand-out pieces of limited-edition contemporary design from the show, including furniture covered in silk-worm cocoons and a chair that references ballet dancers. More about 10 of the best collectible design pieces on show at PAD London
The venue for the Frieze art fair in London this week features walls of pleated and folded aluminium that would otherwise have gone to waste. More about Universal Design Studio uses recycled aluminium to create sculptural entrance to Frieze London