Boxy windows puncture grey brick walls at this Paris development by French architect Michel Guthmann, containing 57 social housing apartments, a hostel and a cinema (+ slideshow). More
American lighting brand Roll & Hill will showcase brass lights that imitate the shapes of unfurling plants and musical instruments at an exhibition in New York that opens later this week. More
Milan Expo 2015: Italy has become the latest nation to unveil proposals for the Milan Expo 2015, which include a pavilion with an air-cleaning facade designed by Roma studio Nemesi & Partners to resemble tree branches (+ slideshow). More
Milan 2014: the final shape of this marble vase by Italian designers Paolo Ulian and Moreno Ratti was revealed by smashing off edges with a hammer. More
New York's Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) Design Store is showcasing a selection of products originally funded via crowdfunding platform Kickstarter, including a tiny slide projector and pen that draws in 3D, as part of the city's design week. More
London designer Benjamin Hubert has designed a collection of furniture with exposed timber frames for Italian brand Moroso (+ slideshow). More
Cities that float on water could offer an alternative to destroying the earth's valuable countryside according to architecture studio AT Design Office, who has developed a concept for an ocean metropolis (+ slideshow). More
News: a design team featuring architect Daniel Libeskind and artist Edward Burtynsky has triumphed in a competition to design a National Holocaust Monument for Ottawa, Canada. More
The loft space at the VitraHaus showroom in Weil am Rhein, Germany, has been transformed into a fictitious home by London-based Studioilse using furniture by Vitra and Artek (+ slideshow). More
A barrel-vaulted roof sits atop this family holiday home, completed by architect Mats Fahlander over the rocky terrain of a Swedish national park (+ slideshow). More
Milan 2014: Rotterdam-based Studio WM has designed a collection of accessories including a mirror that changes opacity and a set of scent diffusers (+ slideshow). More
