Movie: Bocci 28.280 at the V&A
London Design Festival 2013: Canadian lighting brand Bocci has sent us this movie showing its giant chandelier of colourful glass spheres being installed in the main hall of London's V&A museum. More
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Paper Space by Studio Glowacka and Maria Fulford Architects
London Design Festival 2013: design firms Studio Glowacka and Maria Fulford Architects have installed 1500 metres of undulating paper strips to create a pavilion at trade show 100% Design in London this week (+ slideshow). More
The Conductor by Faye Toogood for Established & Sons
London Design Festival 2013: fluorescent lights are controlled by analogue toggle switches in this interactive installation by Faye Toogood for design brand Established & Sons (+ slideshow). More
Unexpected Welcome at Moooi London
London Design Festival 2013: Dutch design brand Moooi has installed its Unexpected Welcome collection in its London showroom, alongside giant photographs by Dutch artist Levi van Veluw. More
Magnetic Fields by Studio Tord Boontje
London Design Festival 2013: experimental surfaces covered in patterns created by magnetism are on show at Dutch designer Tord Boontje's studio this week (+ slideshow). More
Wind Portal by Najla El Zein at the V&A
London Design Festival 2013: Lebanese designer Najla El Zein has installed 5000 spinning paper windmills in a doorway at the V&A museum in London. More
The Dinner Party/True-to-life Design by Scholten & Baijings
London Design Festival 2013: designers Scholten & Baijings set up a still life depicting a dinner party in progress at the V&A museum for the London Design Festival (+ slideshow). More
Endless Stair by dRMM
London Design Festival 2013: architecture firm dRMM has combined fifteen staircases to create an Escher-style installation outside Tate Modern, ahead of the London Design Festival beginning tomorrow (+ slideshow). More
Bocci 28.280 at the V&A
London Design Festival 2013: Canadian lighting brand Bocci has installed a giant chandelier of colourful glass spheres in the main hall of the V&A museum for the London Design Festival, which kicks off on Saturday (+ slideshow). More
Copper Mirror Series by Hunting & Narud
London Design Festival 2013: Norwegian design firm Hunting & Narud is exhibiting a range of large pivoting copper mirrors with stone bases in London during the London Design Festival, which starts on Saturday (+ slideshow). More
Parkcycle Swarm by Rebar Group and N55
Here are more public spaces on the back of bikes: a swarm of tiny mobile parks covered in grass are being pedalled around the city of Baku this month (+ slideshow). More
Cricklewood Town Square by Spacemakers
A mobile town square that packs into a miniature clock tower on the back of a bike will be appearing around north London this month (+ slideshow). More
Patrick Blanc creates world's tallest vertical garden for Jean Nouvel's Sydney tower
News: Jean Nouvel's One Central Park residential tower in Sydney will feature the world's tallest vertical garden by botanist Patrick Blanc. More
The Oasis of Aboukir green wall by Patrick Blanc
Patrick Blanc, the inventor of living walls, has completed his latest vertical garden, covering the side of a five-storey Parisian block with waves of 7600 plants (+ slideshow). More
Nangchang Nangchang bamboo installation by Kengo Kuma
Japanese architect Kengo Kuma has bent bamboo into walkways and seating areas at this year's Gwangju Design Biennale in South Korea, which opens today. More
Catwalk for Up [øpp] by Gartnerfuglen Architects
Models at a Norwegian fashion event walked along this looping wooden catwalk designed by Oslo studio Gartnerfuglen Architects (+ slideshow). More
Tower: Instant Structure for Schacht XII by rAndom International
London studio rAndom International has created a 20-metre tower of falling water at a former coal mine in Germany (+ slideshow). More
Model Home 2013 by Michael Lin and Atelier Bow-Wow with Andrew Barrie
Architectural drawings of a small workers' shack that featured in an exhibition in Shanghai, China, have been enlarged and used to create a full-scale replica in Auckland, New Zealand. More
Floatastic by Qastic
American studio Qastic has created an inflatable pavilion with a floating roof held down by fabric veils (+ slideshow). More
Aeropolis by Plastique Fantastique
An inflatable pavilion that looks like a soap bubble, by architects Plastique Fantastique, has been popping up around Copenhagen this month (+ slideshow). More