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Dezeen Wire: an architect from one of the firms that collaborated with Foster + Partners on the design of the Beijing Capital International Airport Terminal in China says that recent damage caused by wind had nothing to do with the quality of the design – The Washington Post Shao Weiping of the Beijing Architectural Design and Research Institute said he was “very confident that the design was perfect and involved no mistakes or flaws.” China state media say passengers reported seeing roofing material from Terminal 3 blowing across the runway and through the three-year-old terminal building. It is the second time in a year that wind has reportedly affected the structure.…

Dutch design studio RAAAF has unveiled plans to expose the subterranean landscape beneath a demolished sugar factory in Groningen, creating a new public space amidst a forest of columns. (more…) View the full article

A single-storey studio at the bottom of the garden of a semi-detached house in London creates a separation between work and domestic life for its residents. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Milan 2010: design brand Diesel have created a range of lighting in collaboration with Foscarini as part of their Diesel Home Collection, presented at Superstudio Più in Zona Tortona earlier this month. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Louis Vuitton has opened a restaurant and cafe inside its new store in Osaka, Japan, with interiors fashioned by the brand's in-house design team. Read more View the full article

Horizontal layers of colour protrude out from the facade of this bank branch in Tokyo by Japanese architects Emmanuelle Moureaux. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Emmanuelle Moureaux Architecture & Design have completed a bank branch in Tokiwadai, Tokyo, with recessed brightly coloured windows. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Designer Emmanuelle Moureaux has brought her trademark colour spectrum to a fourth bank branch in Japan by surrounding the facade with brightly coloured sticks (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Dezeen Wire: work starts today on an affordable housing development in Harlem by architects Adjaye Associates (more…) View the full article

Dezeen Space: the inventors of Sugru are bringing their pop-up hack-station to Dezeen Space on Sunday 9 October to do a demo and giveaway of their plastic modelling clay. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Scottish design agency Suisse is raising funds to develop its RD-Shelter prototype, which could be rapidly deployed to house people displaced by war or natural disasters. (more…) View the full article

Dutch architect Erick van Egeraat has completed a mixed-use block in Hamburg with a facade that parts like a pair of red curtains. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Spanish branding agency Summa has subtly rebranded Correos, the Spanish national postal service, with a simplified logo for the digital age and a new typeface. Read more

VDF products fair: Vienna designer Sassa Ann Van Wyk has reinterpreted a classic straw boater hat as a sculptural headpiece, called Summer Hat, for which the material is layered in undulating folds. Read more View the full article

This holiday cabin in Sweden by architect Mikael Bergquist is clad with untreated timber that will fade to grey as time passes (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Johan Sundberg Arkitektur has designed a holiday home raised on twelve steel stilts on a steep slope near the sea in Mölle, Sweden. Read more View the full article

A barrel-vaulted roof sits atop this family holiday home, completed by architect Mats Fahlander over the rocky terrain of a Swedish national park (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

British designer Michael Robinson‘s topical posters celebrating this summer in London are available from Dezeen Super Store at 38 Monmouth Street, London WC2. Come down to our launch party tonight from 6-9pm and remember you can print off this flyer to get 10% off at the store! (more…) View the full article

News: two pavilions – one made out of broken umbrellas and bicycle wheels, and one constructed from materials used in oyster cultivation – are due to be installed this summer on Governors Island in New York. (more…) View the full article

This temporary outdoor theatre in Tallinn, Estonia, by local studio Kadarik Tüür Arhitektid is made entirely from timber batons. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

The white, blocky form of this holiday villa by Kapsimalis Architects is intended to be a "contemporary translation" of the chalky houses seen around Santorini, Greece. Read more

A row of raw concrete gables give a zig-zagging profile to this summer house by Swedish studio Tham & Videgård Arkitekter on an island in the Stockholm archipelago (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Milan 2012: Slovenian designer Nika Zupanc presented a set of outdoor furniture and lamps like huge pink bubbles at Spazio Rossana Orlandi in Milan. (more…) View the full article

ÉCAL graduate Luisa Kahlfeldt has designed a new diaper that is more sustainable than even other reusable cloth nappies — an innovation for which she won the Swiss James Dyson Award. Read more View the full article

Show RCA 2011: here’s another piece of manufacturing machinery that harnesses sunlight by Markus Kayser – inventor of the Solar Sinter 3D printer in our earlier story – this time a low-tech, low-energy version of a laser cutter. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article