As Shoreditch Design Week kicks off its inaugural edition at this year's London Design Festival, we interviewed creative director Duncan Riches about how he aims to bring design back to the east London neighbourhood. More about London has "the best architecture and interior design community in Europe" says Duncan Riches
Designer Lee Broom has created an "atmospheric environment" in his Shoreditch showroom with The Chant Chambers, an installation showcasing his glass-block Chant lighting collection at London Design Festival. More about Lee Broom evokes 1970s glamour with The Chant Chambers installation
Promotion: Italian company Lualdi has evolved its architectural door designs from the likes of Piero Lissoni and Kokaistudios to encompass partitioning and panelling systems, bringing sophistication and coherence to interior schemes. More about Lualdi develops vision for contemporary interiors based on architectural systems
Hotelier Not A Hotel has revealed its latest guesthouse will take the form of a human-sized Pokémon Poké Ball, nestled beside a lake in Hokkaido, Japan. More about Not A Hotel reveals design for giant Poké Ball guest room in Japan
With London Design Festival underway, we asked long-standing mayor of London Sadiq Khan for his thoughts on the festival and what to see this year. More about London design "an international success story" says Sadiq Khan
Promotion: American furniture design brand Herman Miller has been honing its Aeron office chair for decades, equipping it with innovative materials and features for modern workplaces. More about Herman Miller updates Aeron Chair to ensure its "lasting design"
Local studio Gonzalo Bardach Architecture has created a concrete house with shading screens and green roofs for "atmospheres that support everyday inhabitation with calm and depth" in Argentina. More about Gonzalo Bardach balances "thick walls and filtering planes" at Casa JR in Argentina
Dezeen School Shows: a portable structure made from natural materials that disperses native seed types from horseback is among projects by IE University students. More about Horse-mounted ecological regeneration system among projects by IE University
Trapezoidal motifs appear throughout this concrete condominium block in Tokyo, designed by Japanese studio Ryuichi Sasaki Architecture. More about Ryuichi Sasaki Architecture uses trapezoid motifs for concrete housing in Tokyo
As Dyson seeks to disrupt the toothbrush market with its CameraJet, we look back at how the technology company has fared in its attempts to transform other product categories over the years. More about Four products that Dyson successfully revolutionised, and four it didn't
This year's London Design Festival landmark project, The Pangolin Shield, explores Britain and India's colonial history through a bamboo-grid pavilion covered with shields used both for protection and aggression. More about Studio Saar tops LDF pavilion with police and rain shields
Tiles decorated with hair and a dissolving washbasin made of soap are among the student projects featured in Behind Closed Doors, an exhibition by the Design Academy Eindhoven and Kaldewei at Berlin design festival Currents. More about Design Academy Eindhoven students reinvent the bathroom for a resource-scarce future
Look-but-don't-touch design exhibitions are inherently unfulfilling so it's good that some designers are finding ways to let people properly interact with their work, writes Alice Fisher. More about "Is touching really asking too much?"
Designers Bahbak Hashemi-Nezhad and Rafael El Baz have used traditional biscuit moulds to create Sweet Terrain, a collection of wall tiles for a HS2 station made from clay excavated during its construction. More about HS2 excavations used to create biscuit-like tiles for Old Oak Common station
Multiple skyscrapers and smaller structures have been constructed since the terrorist attacks on 11 September 2001 devastated Lower Manhattan. Here, we take a look at the site 25 years on. More about The buildings on the World Trade Center site 25 years later
White lime-rendered walls frame Casa Amona, a two-storey home and studio in Mexico, designed by local architecture studio Colar to support multi-generational living. More about Colar angles home and studio to face surrounding hills in Mexico
Swedish studio Johan Sundberg Arkitektur has designed the Pine House holiday home with a cross-shaped plan that stretches into its forested site in southern Sweden. More about Johan Sundberg Arkitektur nestles timber summer house within Swedish woodland
From bars and hotels to private homes, this lookbook explores interiors where billiard tables are on hand for spontaneous games. More about Seven interiors where billiard tables are available on cue
A zigzagging red facade and rooftop running track are among the key features of Jihlava Municipal Arena, completed by architecture studio Chybík + Krištof in the Czech Republic. More about Red facade "evoking a hedgehog" wraps ice hockey arena by Chybík + Krištof
Two accessory dwelling units are contained within a double-level, arched metal building, which was created by design-build studo Qastic. More about Qastic creates stacked ADUs for "alternative approach to small-scale housing" in Los Angeles
Indents and slices across an offset gabled volume bring natural light into this beach house in Queens, New York, by Brooklyn-based BAAO Studio. More about New York beach home by BAAO contains a "house within a house"
Visitors to this woodland cabin in East Sussex enter via a planted roof terrace, which its architect, British studio Built Works, has "devoted entirely to the ritual of bathing". More about Mossy rooftop crowns Bather's Cabin in East Sussex woodland
This week on Dezeen, we published Petra Heights, an innovative high-rise building in London with a stone exoskeleton, designed by Groupwork and Webb Yates. More about This week we revealed a stone high-rise in London
Promotion: an exhibition during this year's Maison&Objet furniture fair in Paris is set to demonstrate the continued relevance of Hanji, a thousand-year-old Korean papermaking technique. More about Hanji House exhibition celebrates traditional Korean papermaking
Architecture studio Orms has submitted a planning application to transform the BT Tower in London into a hotel with a rooftop swimming pool for American hotelier MCR. More about Orms plans to add rooftop swimming pool to London's BT Tower