London Design Festival 2015: the London Design Festival is back, with events kicking off in the British capital this weekend. Dezeen's Dan Howarth selects his pick of the best exhibitions and installations taking place around the city from 19-27 September. More
Comments update: interior designer and TV presenter Naomi Cleaver provoked a strong response from Dezeen readers this week after identifying student-style accommodation for adults as a potential solution to London's housing crisis. More
Pomo summer: the last project in our Postmodernism season is by one of Britain's greatest architects. With its distinctive stripy facade, rounded clock tower and colourful courtyard, No 1 Poultry was James Stirling's last completed building, but is currently the focus of a preservations battle involving some of the world's best-known architects (+ slideshow). More
Amanda Levete, Grimshaw and Heneghan Peng are among the six teams that have unveiled designs for a new bridge over the River Avon in Bath, England (+ slideshow). More
Canadian cedar shingles and slats cover the gables of this community centre and scout hut, which sit behind a concrete wall on the edge of Copenhagen's Søndermarken park (+ slideshow). More
This adaptable shelter system is providing temporary housing for refugees displaced by conflict in their home countries. More
The apartments in this new Berlin co-housing project by Zanderroth Architekten were designed without the need for load-bearing walls inside, giving the owners flexibility to decide on their own layouts (+ slideshow). More
London firm Timothy Hatton Architects has added a burnished steel staircase to rug designer Deirdre Dyson's Chelsea carpet gallery as part of a renovation of her studio. More
Russian artist Nikolay Polissky has transformed a dilapidated building in the village of Zvizzhi into a pavilion covered in pieces of timber, which he described as "a sculpture you can walk through" (+ slideshow). More
Architect Patrick Dillon built this sustainable house on a forested hilltop in Panama from salvaged materials that had to be brought to the site by boat and horseback (+ slideshow). More
The inaugural Dubai Design Week will feature projects from 10 international design schools including London's Royal College of Art and Swiss college ÉCAL for its future-themed Global Grad Show (+ slideshow). More
Dutch firm Ronald Janssen Architecten collaborated with architect Donald Osborne to overhaul an old gearwheel factory in the heart of Amsterdam, creating 12 maisonettes with double-height living spaces (+ slideshow). More
American firm SOM has completed a new tower in Nanchang, China, which features an exterior diagrid system that helps to shade the glass building. More
Competition: Dezeen has teamed up with publishers Phaidon to offer five readers the chance to win one of five copies of Do It Yourself, a book containing instructions for 50 DIY projects written by prolific designers and artists (+ slideshow). More
Swiss typographer Adrian Frutiger, designer of typefaces including Univers, Avenir and the eponymous Frutiger, has died. More
New York-based Marc Thorpe has become the latest designer to produce a compact draught beer dispenser with a design for Stella Artois that was created for small restaurants and bars (+ slideshow). More
Designer Ori Elisar has developed a bacterial ink and grown typographical symbols in a petri dish. Here are more stories featuring microbes, including a lamp powered by glowing octopus bacteria (pictured), clothes grown from single-cell organisms and cheese made from the sweat and tears of celebrities.
French architecture studio Urbane Kultur has refurbished and extended this dome-shaped swimming pool just outside Strasbourg, which is one of nearly 200 built around France in the 1970s (+ slideshow). More
Students from the Collaborative and Industrial Design program at Helsinki's Aalto University have created five new concepts for coffee machines and other household products, aiming to "simplify and clarify" existing models (+ slideshow). More
Brisbane studio Vokes and Peters has converted this timber holiday home in Queensland into a permanent residence for a semi-retired couple by adding an angular extension (+ slideshow). More