Zaha Hadid has accused Japanese authorities and architects of colluding over the Tokyo 2020 Olympic stadium project, and says that Kengo Kuma's replacement design has "remarkable similarities" to her own. More
Japanese officials have selected a wooden lattice design by Kengo Kuma for the new National Stadium in Tokyo, which will be the centrepiece for the 2020 Olympics. More
The Barack Obama Foundation has revealed the names of the seven architecture firms it is inviting to pitch for the official presidential library in Chicago. More
Robert Mull, dean of The Cass Faculty of Art, Architecture and Design, has resigned over relocation plans for the leading east London design school, which campaigners claim will destroy it. More
This week on Dezeen: Kengo Kuma and Toyo Ito unveiled rival bids to build the 2020 Tokyo Olympic stadium this week, replacing Zaha Hadid's competition-winning design, and MAD completed a sinuous opera house in China (pictured). More
Officials in Massachusetts have announced plans for a pair of new museums designed by New York studio Gluckman Tang in the state's northwestern region (+ slideshow). More
Banksy has graffitied an image of Apple founder Steve Jobs as a refugee at a camp in Calais, which was added to with materials left over from the street artist's temporary theme park Dismaland. More
Designer Thomas Heatherwick has won planning permission to convert a Victorian coal yard in London's King's Cross into a canal-side shopping destination. More
The Royal College of Art has announced Adrian Lahoud will be the new dean of the school's architecture department, replacing Alex de Rijke. More
LA-based architect Clive Wilkinson has drawn up conceptual plans for a giant shared office that would hover above London, enabling people to simply walk upstairs to their mobile workplace. More
Business news: Italian design studio Pininfarina, which specialises in creating sports cars for brands like Ferrari, has been acquired by Indian conglomerate Mahindra. More
Danish toy brand Lego has released a set of kits that allows architecture lovers to build skylines of cities around the world. More
Japanese architects Kengo Kuma and Toyo Ito have designed rival proposals to build the 2020 Tokyo Olympic stadium, replacing Zaha Hadid's competition-winning design. More
New Zealand has selected a winner in a contest to find a new national flag, which will go up against its existing design in a public vote. More
Design education in England should learn from the American model and seek greater private funding, according to graphic designer and Royal College of Art professor Neville Brody. More
Aerospace engineering company Windspeed Technologies has designed a bubble-shaped viewing platform for the top of commercial aircraft as an alternative to current in-flight entertainment (+ movie). More
New York architect Mark Foster Gage has proposed a 102-storey tower covered in Gothic sculptural elements for Manhattan, in response to the city's supertall skyscrapers that are "virtually free of architectural design" (+ movie). More
This week on Dezeen: critics spoke to Dezeen about how China's museum boom has resulted in cultural buildings with "no vision", while other industry experts told us that rising sea levels are sparking interest in amphibious architecture. More
Design Miami 2015: traditional automotive brands "don't need to be scared" of upstarts including Tesla and Apple – and the cars of the future may not be electric, according to Audi's head of experiential marketing. More
Dezeen has won the Best Use of Video category at the Professional Publishers Association's annual awards for independent publishers. More