"We would like to fuse fashion and product design," says Murat Kocygit of Mashallah Design.

Mark Braun's Lingor pendant lamps in phosphorescent enameled steel were among our favourite things at last year's Milan furniture fair.

Jörg Höltje only graduated from the University of the Arts in Berlin in April - and Joscha Brose won't be out until October.

Like many Berlin designers, Oliver Deichmann and Blasius Osko met at the Berlin University of Arts, where they studied industrial design.

Judith Seng doesn't mind mess - in her work or her cluttered Mitte studio.

Icon went to Berlin for the DMY design festival.

The controversial demolition of the East German parliament is now complete.

The life's work of Frank Lloyd Wright gets somewhat lost in the monumental ramped space of his masterpiece - but his relevance is still clear, says Alex Pasternack.

Ideal and utopian urban plans are condensed, measured and compared in this fascinating study.

Canada's CCA marks the futurist centenary by taking a lingering look at the cult of speed.

The latest in Phaidon's 10x10 series of critics' choices provides a bookend to the boom years and hints at a more responsible future, says Justin McGuirk.

Peter Marigold is looking for a tree.

It's difficult to think of the High Line without thinking of Joel Sternfeld's photographs of it in different seasons at the turn of this century.

There were no products in the Recession Design exhibition at the Salone this year, just a set of instructions for visitors to pick up so they could make the products themselves.

A sculpted chunk of intergalactic obsidian that has dropped into the suburbs of Tokyo, Za-Koenji Public Theatre in Suginami is Toyo Ito's latest creation.

"We built them like a puzzle," says Belgian architect Jan De Vylder of the glass facades on his recently completed studios for two performing arts companies.

These Porcelain plaster lamps from young designer Julien Carretero hang colourfully but do not try to be pretty.

Muji and Thonet have collaborated on a range of bentwood and tubular steel furniture.

A staircase leading to the sky protrudes from this house in Chardonne, Switzerland.

The City of Justice is David Chipperfield Architects' mammoth new project in Barcelona.

Now that London's National Film Theatre has become "BFI Southbank", what used to be the NFT bar under Waterloo Bridge has become "The Riverfront", run by catering chain Benugo.

We asked designers Sam Hecht and Kim Colin - Industrial Facility - to delve into their collection of cheap things. In the latest in the series they look at two recent acquisitions from Greece and Italy.

Times Square is light, noise, vice, glamour, chintzy souvenirs and overpriced food.