Clerkenwell Design Week 2012: Clerkenwell Design Week is underway and visitors to the main venue arrive through an archway clad in 20,000 wooden hexagons by London designer Giles Miller. More about The Clerkenwell Archway by Giles Miller
Clerkenwell Design Week 2012: Dezeen are media partners for the London series of www.pechakucha.com talks, and the next one takes place on Thursday 24 May at Clerkenwell Design Week with speakers including architect Nigel Coates, architecture publisher Peter Murray and designer Benjamin Hubert. More about Pecha Kucha at Clerkenwell Design Week on Thursday 24 May
World Architecture Festival 2012: Zaha Hadid's MAXXI National Museum of the XXI Century Arts is the focus of our next movie about the World Architecture Festival, as programme director Paul Finch explains why the jury unanimously voted for it to win the festival’s World Building of the Year award in 2010. More about World Architecture Festival 2012: MAXXI by Zaha Hadid
Dezeen Wire: the Royal Institute of British Architects has announced that architect Stephen Hodder of Manchester firm Hodder+Partners will be the organisation's next president, after running for the position unopposed. More about Stephen Hodder to be next RIBA president
Movie: this timelapse movie by architectural photographer Paul Raftery and director Dan Lowe shows the final stages of construction for London skyscraper The Shard, designed by Italian architect Renzo Piano. More about Movie: The Shard by Renzo Piano Building Workshop
Construction of the controversial 115 metre-high sculpture that artist Anish Kapoor and structural engineer Cecil Balmond designed for the London 2012 Olympic Park is now complete. More about ArcelorMittal Orbit by Anish Kapoor and Cecil Balmond
Movie: burlesque dancer Dita Von Teese morphs into a stiletto shoe every fifteen minutes in a holographic performance that was created by London company Musion for the Design Museum's exhibition on iconic shoe designer Christian Louboutin. More about Movie: Dita Von Teese hologram by Musion for Christian Louboutin at the Design Museum
Irish architects O’Donnell + Tuomey have extended a red brick warehouse in central London to provide a new home for The Photographers’ Gallery. More about The Photographers’ Gallery by O’Donnell + Tuomey
The Serpentine Gallery in London has unveiled plans by Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron and Chinese artist Ai Weiwei for this summer's Serpentine Gallery Pavilion: they'll conduct an archaeological dig to find traces of past pavilions on the site then line the resulting trenches with cork. More about Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2012 by Herzog & de Meuron and Ai Weiwei
Movie: in this interview filmed at the Italian Cultural Institute in London yesterday, Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs speaks to architect David Chipperfield, director of the 13th Venice Architecture Biennale. More about Interview: David Chipperfield on curatingthe Venice Architecture Biennale 2012
Internet giant Google will run this shared workplace for startup technology companies that interior designers Jump Studios have just completed in the area nicknamed Silicon Roundabout in Shoreditch, London. More about Google Campus by Jump Studios
Milan 2012: in Milan earlier this month Zaha Hadid paid a surprise visit to Dezeen Studio at MOST to chat to us about her Secret Garden installation, some of the other projects she has in the pipeline and her impression of this year's furniture fair. More about Interview: Zaha Hadid at Dezeen Studio
Construction has started on an art museum with four overlapping peaks that Foster + Partners have designed for Datong, China. More about Datong Art Museum by Foster + Partners
London architects Grimshaw have completed the restoration of historic tea clipper the Cutty Sark, which reopened to the public today in Greenwich. More about Cutty Sark by Grimshaw
Dezeen Wire: Zaha Hadid's MAXXI National Museum of XXI Century Arts in Rome could be closed after Italian culture and heritage minister Lorenzo Ornaghi began proceedings to have it placed under special administration – The Guardian More about MAXXI museum in financial meltdown
Students from London's Architectural Association have designed and built a faceted wooden workshop in the woods in Dorset, England. More about Hooke Park Big Shed by AA Design & Make
Dezeen Wire: the London 2012 Olympic Torch by east London designers BarberOsgerby has been awarded as Design of the Year in a ceremony at the Design Museum in London tonight. More about London 2012 Olympic Torch by BarberOsgerby wins Design of the Year 2012
Designed in Hackney: Hoxton-based designer Michael Marriott created a landscape of cardboard tubes to display items on show at this year's Designs of the Year exhibition at London's Design Museum. The winning entries for each category will be revealed at an awards ceremony tomorrow evening. More about Designed in Hackney: Designs of the Year exhibition by Michael Marriott
These reconstituted-stone sails belong to the second museum we've featured this month dedicated to ill-fated liner the RMS Titanic, following one shaped like four hulls. More about SeaCity Museum by Wilkinson Eyre Architects
Designed in Hackney: today's featured designers from the London borough of Hackney are graphic designers Multistorey, who created the geometric interiors and branding for accessories boutique Darkroom. More about Designed in Hackney: Darkroom by Multistorey