These photos are undeniably powerful, but you won’t discover more about the revolution, says Alan Powers.

Hussein Chalayan and Martino Gamper are among the seven category winners selected from a 100 strong international shortlist for the Brit Insurance Designs of the Year award.

House for a Musician isn’t a house but a studio, designed by Valerio Olgiati for Swiss singer-songwriter Linard Bardill in the small rural town of Scharans, south-west Switzerland.

This month, icon names its 20 essential young architects – the rising practices who are achieving more than ever, earlier than ever. Some are putting up skyscrapers in their 30s, others are changing the way the profession works without building a thing, and they're all in icon 058.

There are two really outstanding things on display at London Open City, an exhibition organised by Design for London at Somerset House.

Artist Sumer Erek is building a house out of 60,000 newspapers as part of an art installation presented by Creative City in Gillett Square, east London.

This is a small taste of the work of professor Shinichi Takemura, a media designer and cultural anthropologist at Kyoto University of Art and Design: the sound of water dripping live from a temple in Kyoto.

“What’s between your legs, baby?” is a project by New York-based graphic designer Mirko Ilic. He showed it as a lighthearted intro to his talk at the Design Indaba conference in Cape Town last week.

They’ll have to wipe Alan Yentob’s drool off the Lockheed Lounge, but at least design’s on the telly.

A 50-year-old pre-fab house designed by Jean Prouvé for French colonials in Africa is currently residing in the front garden of Tate Modern.

Design quartet Front created a miniature pine forest in the lobby of the Nordic Light hotel for Stockholm design week this year.

There’s not a lot of green in Seoul. The vivid grass and moss facade of Cho Minsuk’s store for Belgian fashion designer Ann Demeulemeester has a high impact among the chic, polished stores of the exclusive Dosandae-ro shopping district.