Australian trade unions have banned construction workers from demolishing one of Sydney's only brutalist buildings, which failed in its bid for heritage listing earlier this summer. More
Dutch firm OMA's New York office, which is headed by Shohei Shigematsu, has proposed an apartment building with a "prismatic" corner for Manhattan. More
Musician Moby has hit out at architects "who think about stuff that can be photographed well, but who never actually plan on spending time in the spaces they create". More
London Design Festival 2016: architect David Adjaye has won this year's London Design Medal, while industrial designer Kenneth Grange has been given an award for lifetime achievement. More
Swiss architect Peter Zumthor has been chosen to extend Switzerland's most-visited art museum – the Fondation Beyeler in Riehen, Basel, originally designed by Renzo Piano. More
Architecture studios BIG, MVRDV, Snøhetta and Architetto Michele De Lucchi have all unveiled proposals for the new San Pellegrino Flagship Factory in northern Italy (+ slideshow). More
This week on Dezeen: this week British designer Thomas Heatherwick presented a structure comprising 154 staircases for a vast development in Manhattan's West Side and we geared up for next week's London Design Festival. More
Brexit: the EU Referendum should never have happened according to German designer Konstantin Grcic, who said the decision by Britain's former prime minister David Cameron to host the vote was criminal. More
A UK House of Commons committee has announced plans for an inquiry that will focus in part on employment within the creative industries post Brexit. More
Brexit: the Royal Institute of British Architects has written to the UK's Brexit minister David Davis to warn that construction is facing a skills deficit. More
Brexit Design Manifesto: designer Marc Newson and architect Patrik Schumacher are among the leading industry figures to have added their names to the Brexit Design Manifesto since its launch yesterday. More
Workers in open-plan offices are more distracted, unfriendly and uncollaborative than those in traditional workplaces, according to the latest industry survey. More
Business news: Italian furniture brand B&B Italia has bought high-end kitchen maker Arclinea, marking "the first major milestone" in its growth since being acquired by investment firm Investindustrial. More
British designer Thomas Heatherwick has revealed a honeycomb-like structure comprising a series of interconnected staircases to sit at the centre of the vast Hudson Yards development on Manhattan's West Side. More
Brexit: British inventor James Dyson is "delighted" at the EU referendum result and believes Brexit should be triggered sooner rather than later. More
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
Brazilian architect Paulo Mendes da Rocha has been named the architecture laureate for the 2016 Praemium Imperiale arts prize from the Japan Art Association. More
Bjarke Ingels' firm has unveiled a duplicate version of its website that mimics 1980s video game Arkanoid (+ game). More
Plans for a new outpost of the Guggenheim museum in Helsinki have been thrown into doubt, as the Finnish government refuses funding for the Moreau Kusunoki Architectes-designed project. More
Models by Japanese architects including Shigeru Ban, Kengo Kuma and Riken Yamamoto are the focus of a museum that has opened in Tokyo (+ slideshow). More