Dezeen promotion: New London Architecture is now accepting entries for Don't Move, Improve! 2017, a competition to find the best house extensions in London. More about Call for entries to NLA's Don't Move, Improve! awards 2017
London Design Festival 2016: architect Alison Brooks has pushed the limits of cross-laminated timber with The Smile, an inhabitable "mega-tube" with both of its ends raised up into the air (+ slideshow). More about Alison Brooks creates giant smile using cross-laminated tulipwood
London Design Festival 2016: Bocci's creative director Omer Arbel has created a site-specific lighting installation for London's Barbican Centre (+ movie). More about Omer Arbel suspends aluminium lighting sculpture above Barbican foyer
London Design Festival 2016: architecture firms have created installations along one of London's most famous shopping streets for the Royal Institute of British Architects' annual Regent Street Windows project (+movie). More about Architects create 10 installations for RIBA Regent Street Windows 2016
London Design Festival 2016: architect Asif Khan has created three temporary pavilions thick with plants to give the harried London public space to relax, work and socialise (+ slideshow). More about Asif Khan and MINI create "forests" in see-through boxes across east London
Architect Lucy Tauber has transformed a derelict post office in north London into an artisanal bakery with its kitchen on show. More about Lucy Tauber converts old London post office into light-filled bakery
Brexit: British inventor James Dyson is "delighted" at the EU referendum result and believes Brexit should be triggered sooner rather than later. More about UK should trigger Brexit immediately says James Dyson
Brexit Design Manifesto: more than 100 of the UK's leading design figures have backed a manifesto that calls on the government to support the design sector after Brexit. More about Conran, Rogers and Heatherwick back Dezeen's Brexit Design Manifesto
A tomb that was designed but never realised by modernist architect Adolf Loos has been built by British architect Sam Jacob in a historic London cemetery. More about Sam Jacob erects Adolf Loos-designed mausoleum in Highgate Cemetery
London Design Biennale 2016: museums need to collect more design prototypes, according to Dutch duo Studio Makkink & Bey, who are presenting their own take on an archive during the London Design Biennale. More about Museums need to collect "the whole storyline" of design says Studio Makkink & Bey
The kitchen of Sir John Soane's Museum in London has opened to the public for the first time, filled with contemporary homeware by designers including Barber and Osgerby and Jasper Morrison. More about Barber and Osgerby and Jasper Morrison furnish previously unseen kitchen at Soane Museum
Shingles inscribed with personal messages cover this squat hilltop pavilion, created by British designer Giles Miller as a rest stop for ramblers (+ slideshow). More about Giles Miller designs shingle-covered pavilion for English countryside
London Design Festival 2016: British designer Bethan Gray created her latest collection of handmade furniture using vibrantly stained wood and brass marquetry (+ slideshow). More about Bethan Gray bases brass-patterned furniture on the architecture of Oman
Dezeen promotion: activities taking place at designjunction's new Kings Cross location will include an open-air design party, film screenings and interactive workshops. More about Designjunction 2016 adds to programme of events during London Design Festival
London Design Festival 2016: co-director of Universal Assembly Unit Samantha Lee unveils the digital art studio's interactive sculpture for London Design Festival in this exclusive movie Dezeen produced for Italian lighting brand iGuzzini. More about Universal Assembly Unit creates pulsing Light Pollination installation for iGuzzini
A red brick building designed for one of the UK's oldest libraries will be the first new addition to Lambeth Palace – the historic home of the Archbishop of Canterbury – in almost two centuries (+ slideshow). More about Wright & Wright unveils first addition to London's historic Lambeth Palace in over 180 years
Brexit: the crossover between culture and technology is "how Britain will pay her way" outside of the EU, according to the UK government's first statement about the design sector since the Brexit vote. More about Creative industries central to future of post-Brexit Britain says minister for digital and culture
A technical fault trapped 180 passengers inside the doughnut-shaped viewing pod of the i360 observation tower last night, leaving them suspended above Brighton's seafront for two hours. More about "Slight technical hitch" traps 180 passengers inside world's tallest moving observation tower
London Design Biennale 2016: a Lebanese street market and an archive of "forgotten" Soviet designs are among the winners of the first London Design Biennale medals. More about London Design Biennale names first medal winners
Dezeen promotion: this year's London Design Fair will feature 15 country pavilions, 250 independent designers and 200 global brands (+ slideshow). More about Norway, India and Switzerland among countries presenting at London Design Fair 2016