Describing themselves as "relatively young and still optimistic", London-based architecture studio Merrett Houmøller are delivering on their self-set goal to create architecture for the greater good. Their recent colourful project – a compact, collapsable and transportable kitchen – is their response to the RIBA design competition, Beyond Borders, which sought to unite vulnerable young people who have crossed borders to get to the UK. Cover image: Beyond Borders, Merrett Houm

The Museum of Failure, which opened first in Helsingborg, Sweden, is coming to the end of a short stint in downtown Los Angeles. What is it all about? Think of all the gadgets, products, and gizmos from your youth, or even your parent's, and try to count the ones that never evolved or popped up again in your adulthood. That's the Museum of Failure. It all began with Samuel West – a Swedish clinical psychologist – who thought the world might be as interested as he was in revis