Competition: five copies of London Design Guide to be won
Competition: Dezeen is offering readers the chance to win one of five copies of the latest London Design Guide – a 208-page directory of the city's creative hotspots (+ slideshow). More
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Caruso St John's Gagosian Grosvenor Hill art gallery opens in London
UK studio Caruso St John has created Gagosian's third and largest gallery in London, featuring dark oak flooring and a glass ceiling, which opened ahead of this week's Frieze art fair (+ slideshow). More
Paul Crofts Studio creates Isomi showroom in former London print factory
Original features are paired with blackened steel in modular concrete furniture brand Isomi's first factory in London's Clerkenwell (+ slideshow). More
FaulknerBrowns Architects adds weathering steel facade to new Hebburn Central community centre
The oxidised-steel walls and prefabricated construction of this community library and sports centre near Newcastle, England, are influenced by the region's ship-building heritage (+ slideshow). More
Skylights of Stirling and Gowan's Engineering Building to be replaced in £19.5 million renovation
Major preservation works are underway to replace the tilted glass skylights that define Stirling and Gowan's iconic Engineering Building at the University of Leicester, England. More
Oscar Niemeyer "took the brief very seriously" for 2003 Serpentine Gallery Pavilion
Movie: in the next instalment of our exclusive video series with Julia Peyton-Jones, the Serpentine Gallery director recalls her trip to Brazil to convince Oscar Niemeyer to design the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion in 2003. More
Amanda Levete becomes latest architect to design a Maggie's Centre
Amanda Levete's firm has revealed its design for a Maggie's Centre for cancer care in Southampton, England, set at the centre of a tranquil flower garden. More
Tompkins Rygole's Woodridge house evokes Arts and Crafts architecture with brick facades
The facades and walled garden of this house in the English town of Newbury are entirely faced in Flemish-bonded handmade bricks that reference the neighbouring Arts and Crafts buildings (+ slideshow). More
Studio Dessuant Bone's Jurassic Light 117 is influenced by the Dorset coastline
London Design Festival 2015: to celebrate British design brand Another Country's five-year anniversary, Studio Dessuant Bone has designed a lamp to reflect the company's origins in the seaside county of Dorset (+ slideshow). More
19 Greek Street transforms gallery into apartment for The Art of Progress exhibition
London Design Festival 2015: windows that charge electronic devices and benches produced using solar power were among the sustainable products, furniture and food items exhibited across four floors at London gallery 19 Greek Street (+ slideshow). More
Fredrikson Stallard creates crumpled metal and rock-like furniture for Momentum collection
London Design Festival 2015: UK design studio Fredrikson Stallard has produced a collection of sculptural furniture – including a sofa that looks like a chunk of rock – to mark its 10th anniversary (+ slideshow). More
First official images of Damien Hirst's south London gallery released
Images have emerged of Damien Hirst's Newport Street Gallery – designed by London architecture studio Caruso St John in a row of converted and extended theatre warehouses. More
Delvendahl Martin Architects knocks through a pair of Victorian properties in Oxford
London office Delvendahl Martin Architects has merged and extended a pair of Victorian semi-detached houses in Oxford to create a new double-fronted home for one family (+ slideshow). More
Alejandro Zaera-Polo updates Birmingham's New Street station
Architecture firm AZPML has completed its £750 million overhaul of Birmingham New Street railway station in the UK – but co-founder Alejandro Zaera-Polo says the result "could have been much better". More
Lucy Sparrow tackles "prudery" with stitched sex shop in London's Soho
British artist Lucy Sparrow is filling an adults-only shop in London's Soho district with sex toys, porn magazines and bondage gear all made of felt. More
Karl Lenton designs egg-shaped movable therapy pods for prisons
Karl Lenton of UK company Safe Innovations has designed these mobile therapy spaces to give prisoners better and more comfortable access to healthcare. More
RCA in "state of jeopardy" after Design Interactions staff departures
The Royal College of Art has suspended its world-famous Design Interactions course after failing to find replacements for staff who resigned earlier this year. More
Kate Moss moves into interior design with "retro-glamour" holiday home
Supermodel Kate Moss has become the latest celebrity to launch a design career, creating interiors for a house that forms part of a "luxury second homes" development in the English countryside. More
"Creatives are mythologised as the tooth fairies of urban renewal"
Opinion: London's creative classes are caught up in an urban renewal hamster wheel that's affecting property prices across the capital – and there's no way off without leaving the city entirely, says Will Wiles. More
Design Museum exhibition celebrates 50 years of British road signage
London Design Festival 2015: designers including Neville Brody, Morag Myerscough and Malcolm Garrett have reinterpreted the Calvert and Kinneir-designed British road sign for an exhibition at London's Design Museum (+ slideshow). More