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Dezeen and MINI Frontiers: Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs introduces this round-up of our Dezeen and MINI Frontiers exhibition on the future of mobility, which took place last month during London Design Festival. (more...) View the full article

Competition: Dezeen has teamed up with Biennale Interieur to give away five pairs of tickets to the Belgian design festival, which takes place in Kortrijk from 17 to 26 October. (more...) View the full article

This week's job of the week on Dezeen Jobs is for an experienced architect at DSDHA, whose new studio and gallery for ceramic artist Edmund de Waal is pictured. Visit the ad for full details or browse other architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs. View the full article

World Architecture Festival: a community space in Ho Chi Minh City designed by local firm a21studio and built using recycled materials and colourful fabric has been named World Building of the Year 2014 at the World Architecture Festival in Singapore (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Inside Festival 2014: a Hong Kong restaurant that combines colonial-style furnishings with an industrial warehouse aesthetic has been named World Interior of the Year at the Inside Festival in Singapore (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

World Architecture Festival 2014: a proposal by Canadian firm 5468796 for an art gallery with a spiny exterior has won the title Future Project of the Year 2013 at the World Architecture Festival in Singapore. (more...) View the full article

World Architecture Festival 2014: Australian firm Taylor Cullity Lethlean has won the World Landscape of the Year prize for the second year in a row for the new National Arboretum on the outskirts of the Australian capital, Canberra (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

World Architecture Festival 2014: a village library in China with a roof that doubles as a playground has been selected for the inaugural Small Project of the Year award at the World Architecture Festival. (more...) View the full article

A strip of glazing cuts through the middle of this two-storey extension to a Georgian property in west London, by Norton Ellis architects. (more...) View the full article

Vienna Design Week 2014: Vienna designers TaliaYStudio have released their first range of self-produced products with JellySeries 1, a collection of brass pendant necklaces that hold circles of yellow, cyan and magenta glass that can be used as camera filters (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Japanese studio Aoki Jun and Associates redesigned the facade of the Louis Vuitton store in the Ginza district of Tokyo with a patterned and perforated shell based on the brand's monogram. (more...) View the full article

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...) View the full article

Beijing Design Week 2014: design studio Lava has created a set of symbols that take elements from both Chinese characters and Western graphics in the hope that they will be understood by people from both cultures (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

This Tokyo shop by Schemata Architects features exposed industrial fittings and galvanised metal display rails that have been treated to produce a petrol-toned surface (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

French designers Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec have created a set of diamond-shaped coloured vases for Finnish design brand Iittala (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

These timber and bamboo huts were designed by Agora Architects to offer temporary accommodation to refugees arriving in Thailand from across the Burmese border (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Movie: in this exclusive interview, architect Winy Maas of MVRDV explains how the firm developed the distinctive curving arch design of the Markthal in Rotterdam, which opened today. (more...) View the full article

In his first interview since joining Apple, industrial designer Marc Newson discusses his latest product – a domestic draft beer machine he says is the equivalent to a Nespresso coffee maker for beer lovers – and the future of the mechanical timepiece in the wake of the Apple Watch (+ interview + slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Dutch fashion designer Iris van Herpen revealed 3D-printed garments and accessories "grown" with magnets during her ready-to-wear show in Paris yesterday. (more...) View the full article

Dezeen Guide: design events in Singapore, Dubai and Belgrade (pictured) feature in this month's update, along with six others taking place during October. (more...) View the full article

London architect Farshid Moussavi has overhauled three storeys of an existing Georgian building in the city's West End to create the first physical retail space for Victoria Beckham's eponymous fashion label (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Greek designer Marios Karystios has revamped the schoolroom of a maths teacher, adding brightly coloured furnishings and vintage accessories that aim to make learning more fun (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Bratislava-based MEJD Studio has developed two new lights that look like objects sliced in half – the first features a pendant lamp and bowl that together resemble a water jug, while the second is a table lamp comprising two halves of a brass globe (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Fashion and technology: a Dutch team is presenting a garment that purifies the polluted air surrounding the wearer, at this week's Beijing Design Week. (more...) View the full article