Seattle studio Olson Kundig Architects has produced visualisations imagining the fictional scenes before and after a freight train carrying toxic chemicals haphazardly plunged into a lake where artist Jack Daws was building a house on stilts (+ slideshow). More about Olson Kundig and Jack Daws imagine a house on stilts above a polluted lake
British designers Edward Barber and Jay Osgerby have curated an exhibition at London's Design Museum containing a selection of objects paused part-way through the manufacturing process, which they joked reveals their obsession with aluminium. More about Barber and Osgerby's Design Museum exhibition "could almost be called the aluminium show"
Architects including Álvaro Siza, Eduardo Souto de Moura and Kengo Kuma have taken over the galleries of London's Royal Academy of Arts for an architecture exhibition that features a labyrinth of sticks, an inhabitable timber monument and a web of scented bamboo (+ slideshow). More about Sensing Spaces exhibition opens at the Royal Academy
Strange hollow figures made from folded pieces of carpet line the walls of this exhibition at Galerie Michel Rein in Paris by Portuguese artist Didier Faustino (+ slideshow). More about Army of folded carpet suits by Didier Faustino exhibited in Paris
Extravagant outfits and hats from the wardrobe of the late stylist and fashion muse Isabella Blow have gone on display in London (+ slideshow). More about Fashion by McQueen and Treacy in new exhibition of Isabella Blow's collection
A giant chess set and a hot-dog-shaped rocking horse are on show at a retrospective of work by Spanish designer Jaime Hayón at the Groninger Museum in the Netherlands (+ slideshow + interview). More about Jaime Hayón says his Groninger Museum exhibition is full of "all kinds of crazy products"
In this exclusive interview, British fashion designer Paul Smith shows Dezeen his new exhibition at London's Design Museum, which contains a room "nicknamed the paracetamol room, because by the time you come out you'll probably need an aspirin". Update: this interview is featured in Dezeen Book of Interviews, which is on sale now for £12 (+ movie). More about "You'll probably need an aspirin" after my Design Museum show, says Paul Smith
Images of fantasy goddesses are hidden in brightly-coloured graphics on the walls, floor and ceiling of this exhibition space in Reykjavík, Iceland (+ slideshow). More about SKVÍS by Siggi Eggertsson at Spark Design Space
Dutch Design Week 2013: from synthetic biology to 3D printing, technologies that could signal the future of fashion are demonstrated in garments and accessories at an exhibition in Eindhoven (+ slideshow). More about Future Fashions exhibition by You Are Here and Glamcult Studio
An exhibition about how women shaped twentieth-century design is on show at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York. More about Designing Modern Women 1890–1990 at MoMA
Dutch designer Aldo Bakker has curated an exhibition at Gallery Libby Sellers in London that presents his products alongside complimentary pieces from the gallery's inventory. More about Spaces in Between by Aldo Bakker at Gallery Libby Sellers
An exhibition exploring the latest digital design and manufacturing processes opens today at New York's Museum of Arts and Design. More about Out of Hand: Materializing the Postdigital at MAD
A collection of 1950s and 1960s products by designers including Dieter Rams, Arne Jacobsen and Dietrich Lubs for German electricals brand Braun are on display at the new Paul Smith store in London (+ slideshow). More about Braun Design at Paul Smith Albemarle Street by das programm
London designer Paul Cocksedge's first solo exhibition, at Friedman Benda in New York, features a table folded from a single sheet of steel (+ slideshow). More about Capture exhibition by Paul Cocksedge
Contemporary artists Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset have turned five galleries at the V&A museum in London into the apartment of a fictional architect for an exhibition that opens next month. More about Tomorrow – Elmgreen & Dragset at the V&A
News: architects including Alvaro Siza, Eduardo Souto de Moura and Kengo Kuma will create installations inside London's Royal Academy of Arts for an upcoming architecture exhibition. More about Alvaro Siza and Kengo Kuma to feature in major exhibition at London's RA
Interview: ahead of the opening of a permanent exhibition of David Mellor's street furniture, the British designer's son Corin talks to Dezeen about cataloguing an important moment in British design and how his father approached designing traffic lights and cutlery in the same way (+ slideshow). More about "That these products have been in use for 50 years is testament to good design"
Trend forcaster Li Edelkoort shows there is more to fetishism than just bondage with garments displayed at this year's MoBA 2013 fashion biennale in Arnhem, the Netherlands (+ slideshow). More about Fetishism in Fashion at MoBA 2013
An exhibition of garments and outfits influenced by London's clubbing scene in the 1980s opens this week at the V&A museum. More about Club to Catwalk: London Fashion in the 1980s exhibition at the V&A
Industrial designer Konstantin Grcic has furnished an apartment in Le Corbusier's iconic Cité Radieuse housing block with his own products and blown-up pages from a punk fanzine (+ slideshow). More about Konstantin Grcic at Appartement N°50