The film-maker has built a world of whimsy through props, costumes, puppets and puzzled nerds – the pieces of which are now on show at the Design Museum

Is Belgium paving the way for more international action over Gaza? Have the Lionesses paved the way for a permanent change in English football culture? What’s going on at Unite?

Dan Cruickshank’s infectious passion for heritage lights up this social history of housing from 1712 to 1926

Why did Bradley Wiggins seek advice from disgraced former cyclist Lance Armstrong to help him recover from cocaine addiction?What does the indictment of a US judge tell us about President Trump’s plans to take on the judiciary? How is a law from the 1800s being used to criminalise women who have abortions in 2025? Jess Winch is joined by Marie Le Conte, Rowan Moore and Andrew Butler, as they battle to pitch the top story of the day.

The ever-curious Dutch artist, winner of this year’s Soane medal, on capturing the New York skyline and her cabinet of curiosities

An ambitious new hairdressers’ fuses mirrors, metal and a high-end audio experience in a former Victorian storehouse

The bank’s New York HQ builds on a long history of benevolent tycoons providing their employees everything they need to stay put

Our architecture critic’s verdict on the newest ballroom in Washington, DC

Now some of these fabled pieces have found a new home in north London

The Stephen A Schwarzman centre, built with the university’s largest ever donation, is a welcoming, contemporary take on a traditional Oxford building

An elegant building in Bermondsey with flats for the over-65s aims to provide homes that are sociable and serene

A paragon of postwar new towns it might be, but MK isn’t too well known for its cultural riches. An eye-popping makeover for the city’s main point of entry hopes to change all that…

Jessica Field’s Eviction and Peter Apps’ Homesick chart the rise and ruin of social housing in the UK

Row over plans to build 2 million panels on land around Blenheim Palace has become symbolic of a national struggle

The 1930s modernist masterpiece was designed as a centre of wellness and sanitation before directors spotted its cinematic potential

Obituary: Sir Nicholas Grimshaw

Eero Saarinen’s mid-century masterpiece shines on the outside, but its new interiors put the gross into Grosvenor Square

The centrepiece of the museum’s £5m makeover is a joyful work of grown-up architecture designed for children – and delighting adults

As Britain faces serial heatwaves, we need to learn how to keep our buildings cool and habitable

The club’s new £800m home has finally opened on a waterfront site – that has been stripped of its Unesco status as a result

How the country’s busiest railway station became embroiled in the never-ending battle between heritage and development

Norman Foster’s winning design for a memorial to the queen in St James’s Park sidesteps the usual outrage with a careful mix of the pleasant and the popular