Architecture studio Archohm has completed a campus for promoting crafts in the Indian city of Lucknow, featuring a cluster of grass-roofed workshops and a spiralling shopping arcade (+ slideshow). More about Awadh Shilpgram is a crafts hub influenced by traditional Indian architecture
London Design Festival 2016: the frame of this simple chair by designer Samuel Wilkinson is made using the traditional technique of steam-bending wood (+ slideshow). More about Samuel Wilkinson creates minimal chair using steam-bent wood
British artist Conrad Shawcross has installed a 49-metre-high structure around the soon-to-be built chimneys of an energy centre on Greenwich Peninsula in southeast London (+ movie). More about Conrad Shawcross forays into architecture with faceted tower that "defies definition"
Carmody Groarke has completed a north London house featuring three brick volumes and a grand window facing into woodland, as documented in these images by Swiss-French photographer Hélène Binet. More about Trio of brick volumes form Highgate House by Carmody Groarke
London Design Festival 2016: British brand Another Country has unveiled its fourth collection, which includes tables, seats and a daybed inspired by the work of early 20th century designer Gerrit Rietveld (+ slideshow). More about Another Country unveils Series Four collection inspired by Rietveld's iconic Red and Blue Chair
A huge, faceted glass volume sits on the roof of the new headquarters Zaha Hadid Architects has designed for Antwerp's Port Authority (slideshow). More about Zaha Hadid Architects sits rippling glass lump on top of Antwerp port building
The articulated Bao Bao bag – a perennial favourite among architects and designers – has been updated with an assortment of new piece shapes, including arrows, circles and lighting bolts (+ slideshow). More about Issey Miyake updates iconic Bao Bao bag with new shapes
San Francisco studio New Deal Design has devised a small copper-coloured device that allows users to make purchases by swiping its textured surface, as "a modern replacement for cash". More about New Deal Design's Scrip device brings tactility to digital payments
Shipping containers are stacked on a floating platform to create these buoyant student halls of residence designed by Bjarke Ingels' firm for Copenhagen harbour (+ slideshow). More about BIG stacks shipping containers to create floating student housing in Copenhagen harbour
Outgoing Tate galleries director Nicholas Serota has waded into the feud between Neo Bankside residents and Tate Modern, whose new viewing platform overlooks the luxury housing development on London's South Bank. More about Neo Bankside residents should add net curtains to stop gallery visitors spying says Tate director
Atelier Lame has added a steel-framed extension to an old stone house in a Parisian suburb, as part of a renovation that creates ample storage for an avid CD and record collector (+ slideshow). More about Steel and glass extension added to traditional stone house in Paris by Atelier Lame
London Design Festival 2016: Studio Furthermore injected sponge and foam with porcelain to create this collection of vessels (+ slideshow). More about Studio Furthermore creates ceramic homeware from sponges
The zigzagging roof of this wooden holiday home in Buenos Aires by local practice Estudio Borrachia provides shade for a series of terraces, and will eventually be covered in wildflowers and grass (+ slideshow). More about Zigzagging roof covers Buenos Aires holiday home by Estudio Borrachia
If the government is serious about putting design at the heart of post-Brexit Britain, it must support creative education says Hannah Paterson from the Design Business Association in this Opinion column. More about "Now, more than ever, we need support for creative education"
Today's radical ideas rarely come from designers according to Istanbul Design Biennial curators Beatriz Colomina and Mark Wigley, who say the entire industry is 200 years out of date (+ interview). More about "Design has gone viral, but design community is stranded" say Istanbul Design Biennial curators
The Norwegian government has offered to abandon plans for a memorial to the 77 people murdered during the terrorist attacks of 22 July 2011, after fierce opposition by local residents. More about Norway moves to scrap plans for controversial Utøya memorial
American firm Modus Studio has drastically revamped a ranch-style house in Arkansas by covering the front facade in cedar and Corten steel, and adding an angular extension (+ slideshow). More about Modus Studio cloaks Arkansas home in wood and pre-rusted steel
American artist and designer Daniel Arsham has created a cave from purple spheres as part of his first solo exhibition in New York (+ slideshow). More about Daniel Arsham creates colourful cave from moulded sports balls at Galerie Perrotin
London Design Festival 2016: communal bathing culture is experiencing a global revival according to curator Jane Withers, who has put together an exhibition exploring the phenomenon. More about "People are beginning to rediscover old bathing traditions"
Aaron Betsky finds lessons for western city planners and designers in amongst the mega-blocks, privatised spaces and urban sprawl of Asian cities. More about "We can't stop super-blocks or sprawl, but we have to make space for life in between"