Bethan Gray covers Ella furniture for Workhouse in brightly coloured upholstery
London Design Festival 2014: British designer Bethan Gray has created a colourful collection of upholstered seating for furniture brand Workhouse (+ slideshow). More
London Design Festival 2014: British designer Bethan Gray has created a colourful collection of upholstered seating for furniture brand Workhouse (+ slideshow). More
London Design Festival 2014: Adelaide-based design studio Daniel Emma has moved into larger scale furniture and lighting for the first time with a collection launched at the London Design Festival. More
These new images by photographers Hufton + Crow reveal the curving details of the two glasshouses at Thomas Heatherwick's visitor facility for British gin brand Bombay Sapphire (+ slideshow). More
News: Zaha Hadid has unveiled designs for a new Cambodian institution made up of five interwoven wooden towers to house the largest archive of genocide-related documents in Southeast Asia (+ movie). More
Rough concrete columns are juxtaposed with bright blue aluminium panels at the soon-to-open Issey Miyake flagship store in London by Japanese designer Tokujin Yoshioka (+ slideshow + interview). More
News: Will Hobhouse of high-street furniture retailer Heal's has berated design schools for failing to teach business principles, claiming there's "no better background than an education through eBay" for designers who want to learn how to make a living. More
London Design Festival 2014: experimental footwear, furniture and jewellery pieces by a selection of emerging designers feature in the Future Stars? exhibition at London's The Aram Gallery (+ slideshow). More
London Design Festival 2014: New York-based Amma Studio has created a range of coffee tables and stools made by moulding cement with a range of unexpected materials. More
David Chipperfield has filled the Mies van der Rohe-designed Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin with 144 tree trunks – the museum's final exhibition before renovation work by the British architect starts. More
News: a proposal for a new east-west cycleway that would float on the River Thames has been unveiled by a consortium of architects, artists and engineers formed to promote the development of better cycling links in London. More
A piece of the historic Covent Garden market appears to have broken free of its stone base, with its top half levitating in the air, in the latest installation by London designer Alex Chinneck. More
Dezeen Book of Interviews: in the third extract from our latest book, London-based architect David Adjaye discusses his longstanding fascination with Africa and the opportunities it holds for architects. More
London Design Festival 2014: this angular steel chair by Georgian designer Sandro Lominashvili has a seat with four corners, but only three are attached to the frame. More
London Design Festival 2014: Swedish designer Jomi Evers Solheim has created a collection of porcelain vases, using moulds formed around balloons that were filled with water. More
London Design Festival 2014: Japanese fashion designer Yohji Yamamoto presented his Spring/Summer 2014 collection on chunky wooden garment rails by product designer Torsten Neeland during the London Design Festival (+ slideshow). More
Speaking at the launch of his first major built project in the UK – a gin distillery in Hampshire – London designer Thomas Heatherwick said he was "lucky" to be a British designer, but added that projects that promoted industry in the UK were "rare" (+ interview). More
London Design Festival 2014: UK designer Sebastian Cox collaborated with Lorna Singleton – one of only four remaining experts in the UK in a wood working technique known as swilling – to form a collection of products from strips of softened green timber. More
London Design Festival 2014: designer James Patmore presented his first homeware collection, showing handmade wooden pieces and a table lamp made from a circular screen as part of an installation in an east London cafe (+ slideshow). More
London Design Festival 2014: a series of glass objects by artist Jeremy Maxwell Wintrebert, including lights designed to look like clouds, are on display at Gallery Fumi in east London (+ slideshow). More
News: Irish architects Sheila O'Donnell and John Tuomey have been named as the 2015 recipients of the Royal Gold Medal by the Royal Institute of British Architects (+ slideshow). More