Vietnamese studio Vo Trong Nghia Architects has unveiled plans for a trio of housing towers in Ho Chi Minh City linked by aerial bridges and shielded from the harsh tropical sunlight by swathes of bamboo (+ slideshow). More
This week on Dezeen: the BBC apologised to Royal Gold Medal winner Zaha Hadid after a live radio interview went sour, and we covered the latest news, product launches and installations from the London Design Festival 2015. More
New York architect Deborah Berke will succeed Robert A M Stern as dean of the Yale School of Architecture in New Haven, Connecticut. More
Apple hopes to launch an electric car to the public by 2019, according to reports that emerged this week. More
The BBC has apologised to Zaha Hadid after the architect cut short a live radio interview over poorly researched questions. More
Business news: Joe Gebbia, who co-founded home rental website Airbnb, has become a part-time design partner at American tech startup incubator Y Combinator. More
MASS Design Group, a nonprofit US firm, plans to start an architecture and design training centre in Kigali, Rwanda, to help address the "dearth of professional designers" across Africa (+ movie). More
An angry Zaha Hadid cut short a live radio interview over "absolutely inaccurate" allegations about her Qatar World Cup and Tokyo 2020 Olympic stadiums, and told a Radio 4 presenter she had failed to check her facts. More
British architect Zaha Hadid is to become the 2016 recipient of the Royal Gold Medal for architecture, marking the first time a woman has won the prize in her own right (+ slideshow). More
Japanese studio SANAA has completed a sinuous building of glass, concrete, steel and wood that winds across the landscape of a nature reserve in New Canaan, Connecticut. More
OOPEAA has won the 2015 Finlandia Prize for Architecture with Puukuokka – the tallest wooden apartment block in Finland and one of the first high-rise examples of prefabricated cross-laminated timber construction in the world. More
A vision of a blazing bridge has won a tongue-in-cheek competition seeking "alternative but equally ridiculous" design proposals that could replace Thomas Heatherwick's much maligned Garden Bridge for London. More
In a newly released video, American architect Jeanne Gang explains how natural crystal formations inspired the shape of Vista Residences, a new skyscraper proposed for Chicago that will be the world's tallest building designed by a woman (+ movie). More
Transport for London is to fit opening windows on the upper decks of Thomas Heatherwick's new London buses as the designer originally intended, after passengers complained about the heat. More
Foster + Partners, Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners and UNStudio are battling to win the tender for a new £1 billion terminal at Taiwan's largest airport, Taoyuan International. More
Rising prices will force architects and designers out of London, according to architect Norman Foster – who described the situation as "not necessarily bad". More
David Chipperfield has "significantly reduced" the size of his proposed Nobel Center in the Swedish capital in response to concerns from the public (+ slideshow). More
London's position as a leading creative city is under threat thanks to rent rises, arts education funding cuts and a government that is "scared by creativity," according to this year's London Design Medal winners Edward Barber and Jay Osgerby. More
London Design Festival 2015: design duo Edward Barber and Jay Osgerby are the recipients of this year's London Design Medal. More
Feature: Los Angeles is turning into a "dystopia gone right" and is now the most interesting place in the USA for new architecture, according to international and local studios who are prospering from the city's combination of low rents and big projects. More