Philippe Malouin's design studio Post-Office has used a minimal colour palette and custom-designed furniture to turn a London warehouse into the UK head office of skincare brand Aesop. More about Post-Office creates "simple and elegant" UK headquarters for Aesop
A vision of a blazing bridge has won a tongue-in-cheek competition seeking "alternative but equally ridiculous" design proposals that could replace Thomas Heatherwick's much maligned Garden Bridge for London. More about Eternal bonfire on the River Thames wins satirical contest to rival Heatherwick's Garden Bridge
London Design Festival 2015: British designer Max Lamb's installation at Somerset House includes 131 logs sourced from an ailing ash tree at his grandfather's farm (+ slideshow). More about Max Lamb displays rows of preserved logs for My Grandfather's Tree installation
Post offices and stacked parcels influenced the MDF shapes that dotted the runway for London fashion brand Roksanda's Spring Summer 2016 show, which took place at a Grade-II listed sports hall in Marylebone (+ slideshow). More about Gary Card creates MDF landscape for Roksanda's Spring Summer 2016 fashion show
Transport for London is to fit opening windows on the upper decks of Thomas Heatherwick's new London buses as the designer originally intended, after passengers complained about the heat. More about Heatherwick welcomes decision to fit opening windows on London buses
Rising prices will force architects and designers out of London, according to architect Norman Foster – who described the situation as "not necessarily bad". More about Exodus of London creatives is "inevitable" says Norman Foster
London Design Festival 2015: British designer Tom Dixon has partnered with Selfridges to open a multi-sensory temporary department store at the Old Selfridges Hotel in London (+ slideshow). More about Tom Dixon launches Multiplex pop-up department store in disused London hotel
Canaway Fleming Architects has completed an "unashamedly modern" house in a north London conservation area, featuring rooms that frame a series of small courtyards (+ slideshow). More about Hampstead house by Canaway Fleming Architects features five courtyards and stark white walls
London Design Festival 2015: an exhibition designed by Turner Prize-nominated architecture collective Assemble at the V&A museum celebrates the heritage of late British furniture designer Robin Day. More about Robin Day's Works in Wood displayed on Assemble's "forest" of columns at the V&A
London Design Festival 2015: Patternity has turned its monochrome graphics into a 3D installation at Somerset House, which the London studio described as a "giant patterned playground" (+ slideshow). More about Patternity installs black and white "playground" inside Somerset House
London's position as a leading creative city is under threat thanks to rent rises, arts education funding cuts and a government that is "scared by creativity," according to this year's London Design Medal winners Edward Barber and Jay Osgerby. More about "UK government doesn't value the role of creativity" say Barber and Osgerby
London Design Festival 2015: design duo Edward Barber and Jay Osgerby are the recipients of this year's London Design Medal. More about Barber & Osgerby awarded London Design Medal 2015
London Design Festival 2015: holes cut out from vertical sheets of coloured acrylic form a tunnel designed to distort perspective across a bridge in the V&A museum (+ slideshow). More about Matteo Fogale and Laetitia de Allegri install tinted acrylic tunnel across V&A bridge
London Design Festival 2015: London-based Studio Toogood has created 150 oversized foam coats for V&A visitors to wear while following a trail around the museum. More about V&A visitors can borrow foam coats from The Cloakroom by Faye and Erica Toogood
Department store John Lewis and furniture manufacturer Hille are relaunching British furniture designer Robin Day's iconic 1963 injection-moulded polypropylene school chair. More about Robin Day's 1960s stackable Polyside chair relaunches
London Design Festival 2015: Vienna studio Mischer'Traxler has filled an ornately decorated room at the V&A museum with glass bulbs containing hand-made insects, which flutter around inside in response to the movement of visitors (+ slideshow). More about Mischer'Traxler fills V&A room with interactive glass bubbles for Curiosity Cloud installation
This zinc-clad mews house in London by Paul Archer Design looks like a two-storey home from the front, but actually contains four storeys inside (+ slideshow). More about Day House by Paul Archer Design is a zinc-clad home slotted into an existing London terrace
London Design Festival 2015: the Royal Institute of British Architects' annual Regent Street Windows project returns with 13 new installations up and down one of London's most famous shopping streets (+ movie). More about Architects create series of installations in shop windows along Regent Street
London Design Festival 2015: the studio run by Dezeen columnist Sam Jacob has designed an urn for Lenin, based on a finial found outside the London house the Russian revolutionary lived in for a short period in 1908. More about Sam Jacob Studio creates Lenin's Urn for Soane Museum's "pieces" exhibition
London Design Festival 2015: Dublin studio Grafton Architects has installed rows of textured concrete monoliths inside the V&A museum's tapestry gallery, referencing an ancient script and prehistoric standing stones. More about Grafton Architects stands concrete columns in rows to create The Ogham Wall at the V&A