This week on Dezeen: British designer Thomas Heatherwick was forced to defend his Garden Bridge proposal this week after reports emerged that the project was missing £22 million in funding.
Heatherwick appeared on television to speak up for the controversial bridge planned for London's River Thames, which he claimed had become a political football. The designer also said that scrapping the proposal would suggest to the world that the UK had lost confidence in itself.
Gigantic "Flying Bum" plane takes to the skies
Elsewhere, the world's largest aircraft ? dubbed the Flying Bum ? completed its maiden voyage over the UK and we featured the rebranding of England's Premier League as the new season kicked off.
Creative industries must present a united front to make best of Brexit says John Sorrell In the latest Brexit news, London Design Festival and Creative Industries Federation founder John Sorrell told Dezeen that creatives needed to "get their act together and speak with a united voice" to protect the future of the sector.
Architects imagine new uses for Philip Johnson's New York State Pavilion
In New York, architects proposed new uses for Philip Johnson's Queens pavilion completed for the 1964-65 World's Fair, and the construction of KPF's supertall tower in Manhattan moved forward after a legal challenge to block the project was abandoned.
DuoSkin temporary tattoos can remotely control devices
Researchers at MIT's Media Lab created a series of sma...