Business news: British fashion label Burberry has announced its collections will be available to purchase straight after they are shown on the runway, as opposed to the typical four-month delay. More
Moshe Safdie's firm has completed its Sky Habitat project in Singapore – a pair of balcony-covered housing towers linked by three aerial walkways (+ slideshow). More
Uber's head of design Andrew Crow has announced that he is to leave the company, immediately after it unveiled a widely criticised brand redesign. More
Nonconformists have a crucial role in shaping British architecture, says the curator of a new Royal Academy exhibition on the work of 12 "maverick" architects. More
Indian firm Studio Mumbai has been selected to design Melbourne's next MPavilion, an annual commission touted as Australia's answer to London's Serpentine Gallery Pavilion. More
Stirling Prize winner Haworth Tompkins has been appointed to design some of the housing that will replace Robin Hood Gardens, the historic east-London estate by Brutalist architects Alison and Peter Smithson. More
Rotterdam firm MVRDV has revealed plans to overhaul 600 hectares of Caen, the French city where William the Conqueror built his castle, creating housing, offices and numerous leisure attractions (+ slideshow). More
Bjarke Ingels Group has released a conceptual design for its latest project in New York, an office skyscraper wrapped in a ribbon of green terraces (+ movie). More
BIG founder Bjarke Ingels says he is "honestly impressed" by young job applicant Étienne Duval, whose covering letter is an animated rap that has become a YouTube sensation (+ movie). More
Architects Sou Fujimoto, David Chipperfield and Manuelle Gautrand are among winners of a competition seeking innovative design proposals for 23 sites across the French capital (+ slideshow). More
Construction work has begun on Foster + Partners' new wing for the Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach, Florida, a project that was first announced in 2013 (+ slideshow). More
This week on Dezeen: Zaha Hadid became the first woman to be awarded the RIBA Gold Medal this week and used the illustrious occasion to defend her architecture, which she believes is "widely misunderstood" by the mainstream. More
Business news: Swedish architecture and design studio Claesson Koivisto Rune has developed a new business model that allows designers to earn 75 per cent of the proceeds of their products, rather than the standard royalty of five per cent or less. More
A group of young Finnish architects have won a competition to integrate two museums by Modernist architect Alvar Aalto – but have been told their design needs "a lot of development". More
Lack of experimentation and a culture of narrow-mindedness in schools has led to a dull period in British architecture, according to Archigram founder Peter Cook. More
Business news: startup furniture brand Hem has been acquired by a private buyer in a deal that will see designer and co-founder Petrus Palmér become CEO in place of Jason Goldberg, who will leave the company. More
The Royal Institute of British Architects has acted "to right a 180-year wrong" by giving its highest honour to a woman, the body's president has said. More
BIG, OMA and Zaha Hadid Architects have all been shortlisted to design a major new museum in Budapest, which will be built alongside cultural buildings by SANAA and Sou Fujimoto. More
Danish firms Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects and Gottlieb Paludan Architects have won a competition to design the world's largest waste-to-energy power plant in China (+ movie). More
People in the Netherlands will soon be able to cycle over the world's first 3D-printed steel bridge on the world's first 3D-printed steel bicycle (+ movie). More