Online furniture retailer Fab buys design-led manufacturer One Nordic
News: furniture e-commerce company Fab has bought Finnish design brand One Nordic in a move to expand its catalogue of original designs and European business. More
Nendo adds to its expanding design portfolio with flexible reading glasses
Nendo is rapidly establishing itself as one of the world's most prolific design studios, adding flexible polycarbonate reading glasses to a long list of diverse projects from the last 12 months. More
Fumihiko Maki designs China's "first major museum of design"
News: the V&A Museum will collaborate with developer China Merchants Group on content for the Shekou Museum in Shenzhen designed by Tokyo architect Fumihiko Maki. More
Chetwoods creates "blatantly iconic" kilometre-tall tower to act as environmental filter for Wuhan
News: British studio Chetwoods has unveiled a proposal to create the world's tallest tower in the Chinese city of Wuhan, with a host of environmental functions that will attempt to purify the city's polluted air and lakes. More
Shigeru Ban to do "smaller number of projects" following Pritzker Prize award
News: Japanese architect Shigeru Ban has said he intends to work on fewer projects and may reduce the size of his office following his acceptance of the Pritzker Prize, which he says he did not expect to win. More
Arup unveils its first 3D-printed structural steel building components
News: engineering firm Arup has produced prototype 3D-printed steel construction joints that could be used to create more efficient structures. More
LEDs finally able to create light of the quality designers expect says Arik Levy
LEDs are the light of the future now that the technology is finally advanced enough for it to be interesting to designers, according to industrial designer Arik Levy (+ slideshow). More
Mass Studies brings together North and South Korea with Venice biennale pavilion
Venice Architecture Biennale 2014: Mass Studies founder Minsuk Cho curates an "epic-scale show about both Koreas" with one of the most politically ambitious projects at this year's Venice Architecture Biennale (+ interview + slideshow). More
"Scary" Venice Architecture Biennale show has "nothing to do with design" says Koolhaas
Venice Architecture Biennale 2014: this year's biennale avoids contemporary architecture and has "nothing to do with design," curator Rem Koolhaas said yesterday while conducting a preview tour. More
Special feature: eight extreme swimming pools
Fancy paddling on an unguarded rooftop? Or doing lengths in a structure cantilevered from a skyscraper? Following the popularity of yesterday's house with an infinity pool on the roof, here are some of the scariest swimming spots from Dezeen's architecture archives (+ slideshow). More
Students return to Glasgow School of Art as conservation effort begins
News: students returned to the Glasgow School of Art this afternoon, as construction work began on the Charles Rennie Mackintosh masterpiece that was ravaged by fire last week. More
Glass viewing platform on Chicago's tallest building "cracks" under visitors' feet
News: cracked protective coating on the Willis Tower's glass viewing deck, 410 metres above ground level, leads to temporary closure. More
Apple buys Beats and plans home- control system to rival Nest
News: tech giant Apple has bought Dr Dre's Beats headphone company for $3 billion in the same week that details emerged of a project that will turn users' iPhones into remote control devices for their homes. More
Google unveils driverless car prototype
News: Google has revealed footage of a self-driving vehicle with no steering wheel or pedals, announcing that it expects to roll out its first pilot scheme on public roads in "the next couple of years". More
Glasgow School of Art students affected by fire to receive "phoenix" bursaries
News: the Scottish Government is working with the Glasgow School of Art to provide support for students who were handing in their final projects at the Mackintosh-designed building when it caught fire last Friday. More
Massimo Vignelli dies aged 83
News: Massimo Vignelli – the prolific Modernist designer who created New York's subway signage and the American Airlines identity – has died in New York. More
MINI and Touring Superleggera unveil open-top concept car
BMW's MINI brand has teamed up with Italian bespoke sports-car design company Touring Superleggera to create the MINI Superleggera Vision (+ slideshow). More
Glasgow School structural redirect
Firefighters "prevent destruction" of Mackintosh's iconic Glasgow School of Art
News: the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service has saved most of the structure and "the majority of its contents" but is still working to extinguish the fire that ripped through the Mackintosh building earlier today. More
Glasgow School of Art fire "unbelievably tragic", says Steven Holl
News: the international architecture community is in mourning for Mackintosh's masterpiece as tributes pour in for "immeasurably" influential building. More