News: an international design competition has been launched to create a "state-of-the-art facility for young people" inside Preston Bus Station, an iconic Brutalist building in Lancashire, England. More
News: plans to recreate the Crystal Palace exhibition hall in south London have been shelved, despite attracting a shortlist of architects including Zaha Hadid, Richard Rogers and David Chipperfield. More
Design Indaba 2015: the Bombo stool is "the most copied design product in the world," according to its designer Stefano Giovannoni. More
News: a seven-mile-long skating rink proposed for the Canadian city of Edmonton could allow commuters to ice skate or toboggan to work and school during winter months (+ movie). More
News: a competition will be launched next week to design a new Bauhaus Museum in Dessau, where the famous German art and design school was based between 1925 and 1932. More
News: as construction of BIG's Amager Bakke Waste-to-Energy Plant continues in Copenhagen, a video has surfaced showing a successful trial for the building's smoke-ring-blowing chimney (+ movie). More
News: BIG and Heatherwick Studio are collaborating on a new headquarters building for Google in Mountain View, California. More
News: Zaha Hadid Architects director Patrik Schumacher has called for the abolition of state-funded arts schools, branding them "an indefensible anachronism". More
News: a concert hall with a spiky roof in Poland and a terracotta winery buried beneath an Italian vineyard are among the five finalists in the running for the European Union's 2015 architecture prize – the Mies van der Rohe Award (+ slideshow). More
Waterfalls, rainbow-coloured latticework and bright red cycle lanes feature among proposals for a new bridge across London's River Thames to rival Thomas Heatherwick's Garden Bridge (+ slideshow). More
Design Indaba 2015: the design industry has lost touch with its social and cultural values and is producing "too much shit design", according to Hella Jongerius. More
News: a new smartwatch from Pebble that promises seven days of battery life has reached its $500,000 Kickstarter goal in less than 20 minutes. More
News: Swedish car manufacturer Volvo has revealed plans to test 100 self-driving vehicles on city streets with members of the public by 2017. More
News: a proposal to carve a cultural centre out of the landscape has won the UNESCO design contest for a Bamiyan Valley site where two seventh-century statues of Buddha were destroyed by Taliban militants. More
News: MVRDV has been granted planning approval to overhaul a 1970s complex in Paris, which includes adding a new facade of colourful stacked boxes to an existing shopping centre. More
News: SO-IL and FREAKS freearchitects have together won a competition to redesign a glass museum, workshop and gallery on the site of an 18th-century glass factory in north-east France. More
News: residents of one of the tallest residential skyscrapers in the world have been gradually returning to their homes after a fire that caused more than a thousand people to be evacuated. More
News: images have emerged of a replacement for the stalled Pinnacle skyscraper in London, which will now be demolished following a deal believed to be worth £300 million. More
News: Ferrari has released images of a concept racing car that the Italian manufacturer envisions as a possible future for Formula One. More
Business news: the UK government has finally set a date for the introduction of its new copyright protection law, making it illegal to manufacture or sell copies of mass-produced designs after 2020. More