Heatherwick Studio: Designing the Extraordinary at the V&A opens today, confirming the notion that Thomas Heatherwick is currently everywhere. He also features on the cover of our June issue photographed by David Bailey. Here is the behind-the-scenes story of two strong personalities and a stuffed turkey vulture.

K2S Architects has used simple shapes and local materials to create a quiet, intimate space for reflection at the heart of bustling Helsinki.

The Pershing Square Signature Center is an off-Broadway venue that ditches the flash alloys and returns to Gehry’s rough and ready roots.

Stéphane Maupin’s clever riposte to Parisian building regulations is a block of flats whose bland exterior belies the joyous mess within.

Clerkenwell Design Week is now a firm fixture in London’s design calendar and the third instalment of the festival is the biggest yet. Here is our preview.

ARX’s spacious yet intimate house outside Lisbon is built for privacy and takes its influences from both Moorish and modernist masters.

In south-east Spain, on Cartagena’s harbourfront, Madrid-based practice SelgasCano has created a vibrant auditorium and congress centre that makes ingenious use of low-cost materials and glows at night like a radioactive Chinese lantern.

Icon 108 is devoted to Sacred Spaces. The designer Thomas Heatherwick is building an aviary on top of the “Towers of Silence” in Mumbai, where the city’s Zoroastrian community practises its ancient custom of “sky burial”, which involves vultures and other birds of prey stripping cadavers to the bone in as little as three days.

On 22 May, Icon and Vitra will be hosting the UK Premiere Showroom Screening of Eames: The Architect and the Painter. Enter now to win an invitation.

Enter now and be in with a chance to win a copy of Thomas Heatherwick: Making, plus a private curator-led tour of the Heatherwick exhibition, courtesy of the Victoria and Albert Museum.