Construction is underway on prototype houses by architects Alejandro Aravena, Massimiliano Fuksas, MVRDV, I-Beam Design, The Mad Housers and Kengo Kuma in the grounds of the Milan Triennale as part of the exhibition Casa Per Tutti (Housing For All), which opens this week. More »

Milan 08: Marcel Wanders launched his new Chubby armchair for Italian company Slide in Milan last month. More »

Milan 08: shown at That’s Design! in Zona Tortona last month, What Can You Bring to the Table is a collection of five chairs where each component was designed in isolation without any knowledge of what the other parts would be like. More »

Hackenbroich Architecten have completed the interior of a hairdressers shop in Cologne, Germany. More »

Nano Vent-skin is a conceptual project by young designer Agustin Otegu, featuring miniscule bio-turbines that could clad buildings to generate energy and absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. More »

Milan 08: at the furniture fair last month MDF Italia presented Vita interactive by Massimo Mariani, an infinitely variable, computer-generated storage system that can be customised to each client’s requirements. More »

Dutch designer Tjep. has completed a restaurant for grown-ups that is also fun for children (or maybe the other way round). More »

Dezeen promotion: video interviews with industrial designer Konstantin Grcic (above) and Dutch design duo Studio Job are the latest in our highlighted series of podcast interviews with leading designers by Gestalten. More »

Milan 08: American lifestyle brand Charles & Marie presented Phonofone II, a ceramic iPod loudspeaker designed by Tristan Zimmermann, in Milan last month. More »

French-Brazilian architects Triptyque have sent through images of Bela Cintra 1235, a private apartment in São Paulo. More »

Milan 08: Star System is a collection of sofas designed by Enrico Buscemi and Piergiorgio Leone for Giovannetti collezioni. More »

Milan 08: designers Kiki van Eijk and Joost van Bleiswijk presented reCollections at via Voghera in Zona Tortona last month. More »

Designer Frederik Roijé has created Walk of Flames and Rise of Flames, a candelabra and chandelier made from bent metal tubes. More »

Designer Yves Béhar of Fuseproject has designed a new Jawbone Bluetooth headset for manufacturers Aliph. More »