This week on Dezeen

This week we published a vibrator that can be worn as a necklace, swimming pools for the River Thames and a fish-inspired skyscraper (main image). Read on for more architecture and design highlights from the past seven days, plus our Dezeen Music Project track of the week.

K.I.M.K. is a funky hip hop instrumental by Dutch producer and DJ Y’Skid.

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Our attention focused on skyscraper design this week as a scaly 93-metre-high structure inspired by fish won a competition to be constructed in China and a golden tower design by Singapore firm WOHA for property tycoon Donald Trump was unveiled.

Floating structures hit the headlines as a Dutch firm revealed plans for a hotel shaped like a snowflake off the coast of Norway.

Studio Octopi revised its proposal for a floating swimming pool in the River Thames, altering its original design by including three separate freshwater pools in a new location.

Minimal projects featured heavily this week as i29 created a stripped-back stainless-steel kitchen island for a classical Paris apartment, and Tai & Architectural crafted a simple interior for a couple renting a Taiwan apartment.

In design news, a former Royal College of Art student was found “technically” guilty of plagiarism and a San Francisco start-up launched a stainless-steel vibrator that could be worn as a necklace.

Nike created a full-sized LED basketball court in Shanghai and Scribble Technology revealed a colour-matching pen that can write in millions of shades.

Popular projects included an apartment featuring a sunken kitchen, a photography series chronicling decaying Soviet architecture and a house in Rio de Janeiro that sits between a mountain and the ocean.

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