Infinity Bench

Designed by Martino Gamper. Part of Bench Years with Established and Sons at the V&A Museum, during London Design Festival 2012.

Olympic shapes

Velodrome by Hopkins Architects, Basketball Arena by Sinclair Knight Merz, Wilkinson Eyre and KSS, Aquatics Centre by Zaha Hadid Architects.

Conservatory

My favourite place in London is getting a lot of positive press. See this month's COS magazine for photography by Misha De Ridder and It's Nice That Issue 8 for photography by Jake Green.

Prada SS12 Tokyo

At the drive-in visuals by 2x4.

Matthias Heiderich Studie Zwei

I love the colours in Matthias Heiderich's work.

UVA Origin

United Visual Artist's largest responsive LED installation to date, commissioned by The Creators Project took place October 2011, in Brooklyn. A Ten by ten metre cube of LEDs emit varying light patterns, with a network of speakers generating real-time live ominous sounds of an original by Scanner.

Nike Sportswear

Excellent neon visuals at Niketown London, Part of the relaunch concept by Rosie Lee.

Amazing Studio Spaces No. 5

Merderu Auto Repair Shop, Nigata City, Japan. Designed by Daigo Ishii of Future-scape architects.

Comedy Carpet

Why Not Associates celebrates comedy in 160,000 granite letters, across 2,200m2 floor in Blackpool. More about the project can be seen here.

Vincent Fournier Space Project

French photographer Vincent Fournier's spectacular landscapes, part of a series called Space Project.

Tree Hotel

Seriously considering this for my next holiday. Located in Harads, Sweden is Tree Hotel, a series of shelters up in the trees. This one (below), by Tham & Videgård Arkitekter is a lightweight aluminum structure hung around a tree trunk, a 4×4x4 meters box clad in mirrored glass. Bird friendly too.

Animal Wall

Woodcrete installation by Gitta Gschwendtner. A 50m long wall of 1000 bird houses built in Cardiff by this London-based designer.

Serpentine Pavilion: Peter Zumthor

As soon as I caught word of its opening, I decided to hot foot down Hype Park on my lunch break to see it. The building was designed by Swiss architect Peter Zumthor, with "a garden within a garden" designed by Piet Oudolf. I really enjoyed Jean Nouvel's red pavilion last year, and loved the concept for this one too although they are a total contrast.

The house that Saul Bass lived in

Nordic Bakery

The new second location for this Scandinavian London cafe is New Cavendish Street. It still has that wonderful cinnamon smell and some great Finnish design such as Alvar Aalto tableware and Tapiovaara Pirkka benches and tables.

Flags No. 2

Flags No. 1

Passing through the Summer of Fun at the Southbank Centre.

ABC of boat bits

I came across this lovely little book in Margaret Howell. It's by a print-maker called James Dodds. It's a very practical and handy guide I wish I'd been given when I learned how to sail. Look out for "Alphabet of boats" with some nice woodcuts and "ABC of printmaking".

Wim Crouwel wall graphics

At the Design Museum by Spin.

Boxpark

Last week this container appeared on the corner of Shoreditch High Street. Founder of Boxfresh Roger Wade is taking the pop-up shop to the next level and creating the world's first pop-up mall. Using shipping containers certainly isn't a new concept but if this project is well executed in August 2011, it could be rather good.