Foster + Partners has overhauled the interior of the Imperial War Museum in London, creating new First World War galleries and a grand atrium that suspends planes over the heads of visitors. More about Foster + Partners adds First World War galleries to London's Imperial War Museum
Aberdeenshire Council in Scotland has commissioned local-born textile designer Donna Wilson to create a tartan fabric that celebrates the area's craft heritage. More about Donna Wilson designs new tartan for Aberdeenshire
Handmade concrete tiles give a scaly facade to this collaborative workplace building designed by Assemble for artists and designers in east London. More about Colourful shingles front Assemble's Yardhouse studios for east London creatives
News: the final aluminium panel has been fixed to the latticed roof structure of Foster + Partners' Crossrail Station in London – part of Europe's biggest infrastructure project (+ slideshow). More about Foster's Canary Wharf Crossrail station nears completion
News: design duo Edward Barber and Jay Osgerby have been appointed to design the trains for Europe's biggest railway and infrastructure project. More about Barber and Osgerby to design trains for London's Crossrail
Dezeen and MINI Frontiers: designer Matthew Plummer-Fernandez is reimagining the dashboard figurine as a personalised avatar to help drivers communicate with cars for the Dezeen and MINI Frontiers exhibition this September. More about Digital bobbleheads are the "provocative future" for cars, says Plummer-Fernandez
A mile-long street provides play space in this conceptual skyscraper by RCA graduate Elly Ward, which examines how children's experience of and contribution to city life can be enhanced (+ slideshow). More about Elly Ward's conceptual tower offers a vision of a child-friendly vertical city
London firm Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners has put the finishing touches to the World Conservation and Exhibitions Centre – a new £135 million wing at the British Museum in London (+ slideshow). More about Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners completes new conservation and gallery wing at British Museum
Mole Architects based the shape and proportions of this rural home in Suffolk on the classical vicar's residences that are typically found in English countryside towns (+ slideshow). More about Cedar-clad Stackyard by Mole Architects is a house based on old rectories
News: these new renders of the controversial Tokyo Olympic stadium by Zaha Hadid Architects show changes to the shape of the building, which has been altered following a budget cut (+ slideshow). More about New images of Zaha Hadid's modified Tokyo Olympic stadium design
These new images by architecture photographer Edmon Leong show the undulating contours and glittering surfaces of Zaha Hadid's Dongdaemun Design Plaza complex in Seoul, South Korea (+ slideshow). More about Zaha Hadid's Dongdaemun Design Plaza captured in new photographs
Designers at Swedish fashion brand COS have created limited-edition shoes for its partnership with this year's Serpentine Gallery Pavilion (+ slideshow). More about COS launches The Serpentine Shoes to coincide with pavilion opening
News: Zaha Hadid Architects has confirmed it is adapting its design for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic stadium, following budget changes and ongoing criticism – including a 500-person street protest last weekend. More about Zaha Hadid modifies controversial Tokyo Olympic stadium design
A recital hall covered in aluminium mesh projects from one corner of this timber-clad music and communications centre designed by Mitchell Taylor Workshop for a college in the south of England. More about Mitchell Taylor Workshop pairs timber with aluminium at Berkshire music college
Royal College of Art graduate Sungsin Eo has designed a foam display and seating system for museums to present information to children in an engaging and playful way (+ movie). More about Sungsin Eo designs foam display system for child-friendly exhibitions
A fluted fibreglass wall surrounds this temporary Maggie's Centre in Merseyside, England, designed by London studio Carmody Groarke to offer support to those affected by cancer. More about Maggie's Merseyside by Carmody Groarke features a fluted facade
An immersive exhibition demonstrating creative uses of computer coding – from vintage video games to animated robots – opens today at the Barbican Centre in London (+ slideshow). More about Barbican's Digital Revolution exhibition celebrates creative computer coding
Dezeen and MINI Frontiers: designer and inventor Dominic Wilcox explains why he is making a stained-glass driverless car for our Dezeen and MINI Frontiers exhibition in September. More about Dominic Wilcox to build driverless car made out of stained glass
This conceptual project by Royal College of Art graduate Johanna Schmeer builds on developments in nanotechnology to create synthetic foods for feeding the world's burgeoning population (+ movie). More about Johanna Schmeer imagines the future of food with Bioplastic Fantastic
News: the Design Museum in London has defended its decision to give its Designs of the Year top prize to a Zaha Hadid building in Azerbaijan, following widespread criticisms of the award on human rights grounds. More about Designs of the Year prize "about architecture rather than politics" says Design Museum director