We were fortunate in February to be able to go to see not one but three new short films about architecture. Here’s a quick roundup of what we saw.

The Portuguese architect Álvaro Siza receives the Royal Gold Medal for architecture from Her Majesty the Queen today. Last night he delivered a lecture to a full auditorium at RIBA.

London Fashion Week comes to an end today. After more than a hundred catwalk shows that seemed determined not to deal with the precarious financial situation, we were finally presented with an interesting alternative to the traditional fashion show last night: a short film sent to us via email.

The design world’s Oscars have reached stage two, with the Design Museum listing the category winners of its Brit Insurance Designs of the Year award.

The 2009 Serpentine Gallery Pavilion will be designed by Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa of Japanese practice SANAA, it has been announced.

A fascist activist who stripped modernism of its social value, Philip Johnson has a lot of explaining to do. Do these final interviews shed any light on a slippery enigma? Owen Hatherley found out.

Boris Johnson wants a new bus for London, to smite the socialistic Bendies. The result is a convoy of cuddly clones, says William Wiles.

We went to the London preview of the Salone Internazionale del Mobile yesterday, where we found out that Welsh-born artist Cerith Wyn Evans has been chosen to create the Saloni's cultural project in the Palazzo Reale's courtyard this April.

Salt and pepper shakers that look like buoys, a schnapps lighthouse and a bowl in the shape of a folded paper boat with serving utensils as oars. The Boatlife collection for Sagaform is cheesy as hell and unlike anything that Form Us With love has done before but we like it.

Birdsong and a forest of plants greet you as you enter the Aktipis flower shop in Patras, Greece. Athens-based architect Point Supreme has brought the florist back to basics with its first project on home turf.