This week John McAslan + Partners unveiled the long-awaited remodelling of King’s Cross Station in London, PayPal launched a device for swiping credit cards to take payments on a smartphone, and readers wondered why the roof of the Enzo Ferrari Museum by Future Systems is yellow rather than red. More
This week we launched our Designed in Hackney initiative to highlight design talent in the east London borough of Hackney, one of the five host boroughs for the London 2012 Olympic Games and home to Dezeen’s offices. More details here. More
This week Chinese architect Wang Shu of Amateur Architecture Studio in Hangzhou was named 2012 Pritkzer Prize laureate and we rounded up his key projects. More
This week sports brand Nike launched a range of knitted running shoes, car brand Mini unveiled a panel-van version of the Mini Clubman and RCA graduate Min-Kyu Choi put his award-winning folding plug graduation project into production. More
This week we introduced slideshows of larger images to the top of selected stories on Dezeen - see the first few examples here, including a museum of handmade paper, stripped-out factories awaiting renovation and a skatepark in Calais. More
This week on Dezeen we published an interview with industrial designer Marc Newson about his new camera for Pentax. You can also watch highlights from Fabio Novembre's talk about his work and inspirations plus changes in the Italian design scene on Dezeen Screen. More
This week Marc Newson unveiled the camera he designed for Japanese brand Pentax and Nike launched a wristband that can tell whether you've done any exercise. Meanwhile, Austrian designer Nina Levett caused a stir with a trio of provocative videos that show her at work in her studio. More
Our most controversial story this week announced writer Alain de Botton's plans to erect temples for atheists across the UK - read the story and join the debate here. It also emerged that Disney were selling a T-shirt inspired by the 1979 album cover of Unknown Pleasures by Joy Division, but don't rush to order one as they've all sold. We also showed a robe made of golden silk harvested from over a million wild spiders and a tower built by flying robots. More
This week Richard Meier & Partners unveiled designs for a 34-storey tower in Mexico City, SOM won a competition to design a skyscraper for China with proposals that incorporate a 30-storey-high opening window and the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat in Chicago released a report that revealed a record number of skyscrapers were completed in 2011. More
This week a boat-shaped apartment washed up on the roof of the Southbank Centre in London, dRMM completed a shimmering golden wedding chapel in the British seaside town of Blackpool and we showed images of Renzo Piano's new wing at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. More
This week Peter Zumthor's memorial to suspected witches put to death in Norway captured readers attention, while David Chipperfield was confirmed as architecture curator for this year's Venice Biennale and rapper Kanye West announced plans to launch a design company. More
This week Thomas Heatherwick unveiled the prototype of his New Bus for London, Snøhetta released proposals for a Maggie’s cancer care centre in Aberdeen and Foster + Partners won a competition to design a high-speed rail station in northwest Spain. More
This week Steven Holl was announced as the winner of this year's AIA Gold Medal, Danish studio BIG designed another building-cum-ski-slope and MAD released photos of their recently completed "otherworldly" museum in the Gobi desert. More
This week MVRDV caused a commotion by designing two towers engulfed in a pixellated cloud that put readers in mind of the World Trade Centre's destruction on September 11. Meanwhile UNStudio unveiled designs for a Singapore skyscraper with chunks missing from its facade. More
In case you hadn't noticed, this week we opened our Christmas shop The Temporium at 65 Monmouth Street, Seven Dials, Covent Garden, London WC2H 9DG. Drop in to see over 20 designers and brands selling their products direct to the public, plus 10% off Dezeen Watch Store and the chance to win a goodie bag worth £100. More
This week on Dezeen our most popular story was the redesign of McDonald's interiors in France by Patrick Norguet, which encouraged readers to suggest that they redesign their food next, while a mountain lodge that you can ski over by Fantastic Norway also attracted plenty of attention. More
This week on Dezeen we celebrated our fifth birthday! We picked some of our favourite parties, stories and projects since 2006 and published a selection of the lovely tweets we received. More
This week on Dezeen Thomas Heatherwick designed an interior for an abbey with curving walnut and ash choir stalls and Dutch architects MVRDV unveiled proposals for a hotel covered in flowers inside a giant greenhouse. More
This week on Dezeen we reported from the Inside awards in Barcelona, where a hotel in a former Japanese Army headquarters by NHDRO walked away with the top prize. More
This week on Dezeen we published analysis by Dezeen reader Salomé Francpourmoi, which questioned whether there was a bias towards white males in our features. You can have your say on the gender and race issue by leaving comments at the end of the post. More