Nature, structure and elemental beauty... the needle is stuck on Cecil Balmond’s record, finds Beatrice Galilee.

Tomás Gabzdil Libertiny has always been fascinated with making things, and the methods behind their making. Disassembling objects and piecing them back together was a common pastime during his childhood in Slovakia.

When we went to interview Stanley Donwood, Radiohead’s official artist, he let us watch him make a special limited-edition print. The linocut, of Fleet Street being destroyed by fire and flood, is being auctioned to aid the St Bride Foundation, an educational charity.

Last Breath Bruises, Sandra Backlund’s latest collection, was inspired by the colour spectrum of bruises. The Swedish fashion designer’s Autumn Winter 2008 collection evolved from what she describes as “a dark story”.

Ábalos & Herreros has designed a three-storey house with a deliberately ambiguous facade, on a small plot of land just north of Madrid.

In the cavernous space of P3 – a bunker formerly used for stress-testing concrete – industrial sounds clunk, twang, shudder and thud. A pair of black-clad stagehands carefully move pieces of black piping into the edges of three green-tinged grid formations on the floor.

Visitors to the Carpenters Workshop Gallery in west London may never sit comfortably in a public place again. Pablo Reinoso’s new exhibition features three ordinary park benches – but with a twist.

Elena Manferdini’s installation Merletti is a tribute to the painstaking process of lace making. She has created a suspended canopy consisting of 300 black glossy panels manufactured with CNC technologies.

There is a box of magnifying glasses at the entrance to Stephen Walter’s exhibition The Island: London Series. It’s a courteous gesture. Walter’s hand-drawn maps are an overwhelming mass of cramped detail.

A white forest in a grey field, Junya Ishigami’s university project space in the foothills west of Tokyo is a building designed to almost disappear.