From opulent royal foot apparel to dangerously high stilettos, a new exhibition at London's V&A museum explores the "human obsession with shoes" over 2,000 years (+ slideshow). More about V&A presents extreme footwear in Shoes: Pleasure and Pain exhibition
Vibrant green-yellow frames accentuate the windows and doors of this spruce-clad house built on a hillside with views over Oslo (+ slideshow). More about Timber-clad home by Schjelderup Trondahl sits on a hill overlooking Oslo
Couples with a love of stained glass can now get married in a kaleidoscopic wedding chapel next to a Shanghai glass museum (+ slideshow). More about Rainbow Chapel by Coordination Asia is a multi-coloured wedding venue in Shanghai
Science fiction writer Bruce Sterling has curated an apartment inside an old industrial building in Turin, Italy, bringing together various designs to create the "open-source connected home of the future" (+ slideshow). More about Casa Jasmina combines Italian design with connected home technologies
Thin blue strings are stretched between arch-shaped frames to create tunnels across the cloister garden of a French cathedral (+ slideshow). More about Atelier Yokyok installs vaulted string tunnels in a Gothic cloister garden
Brooklyn studio SO-IL has used corbelled brickwork to create a textured entrance to an art gallery in New York's Chelsea neighbourhood. More about SO-IL adds decorative brick entrance to Tina Kim Gallery in Manhattan
Graduate shows 2015: the head of Central Saint Martins' BA Fashion course has voiced support for a guerrilla presentation staged by students who were not chosen to exhibit at the school's official press show. More about Central Saint Martins backs protest by fashion students
Dezeen promotion: UK materials brand DuPont has renewed and extended its range of Corian bathroom basins, and photographed them in styled environments for a new publication titled Portraits of Life (+ slideshow). More about DuPont updates collection of Corian bathroom basins
Dezeen and MINI Frontiers: Superflux has built a series of drones, which the London studio suggests could one day be used in cities for surveillance, traffic control and advertising (+ movie). More about Superflux research project imagines London patrolled by a fleet of drones
Rectangular panels of Japanese cedar and glass create a chequered effect on the facade of this Tokyo residence (+ slideshow). More about Glass and timber rectangles create chequered facade for Tokyo house by Takeshi Shikauchi
Thomas Heatherwick has revealed his plans to build a Maggie's cancer-care centre in Yorkshire, England, designed to look like a group of giant pot plants. More about Thomas Heatherwick unveils design for plant-covered Maggie's Centre in Yorkshire
The timber frame and paper panes of the traditional Korean door were replaced with a resin grid and flexible silicone for this installation at a Seoul gallery (+ slideshow). More about Nameless Architecture reinterprets the traditional Korean door using resin and silicone
Architecture studio Piercy & Company has resurrected a fire-ravaged building as offices in London's Shoreditch, reinstating the ornate facade at the front and adding a faceted brass structure at the rear (+ slideshow). More about Shoreditch office by Piercy & Company has a restored facade and a golden behind
Sections of Renaissance paintings are mounted onto angular planters across the colourful temporary landscape installed at a Bergamo gallery by Studio Fink (+ slideshow). More about Studio Fink covers Italian art museum courtyard with brightly coloured astroturf
The roof of this Stockholm house by Streetmonkey Architects turns into a ramp for children to sled on when it snows (+ slideshow). More about Pulkabacken house has a sloping roof that doubles as a sledding hill
UK studio London Atelier has updated the interior of a dilapidated terraced property, adding a new staircase, and a folding ladder for access to the roof (+ slideshow). More about London Atelier reorganises Victorian house to create multi-level apartment
Belgian artist Carsten Höller has filled the Hayward Gallery and terraces on London's South Bank with interactive installations, including a pair of spiral slides (+ slideshow). More about Carsten Höller transforms London's South Bank into a playground
London Festival of Architecture 2015: Turner Prize-nominated architecture collective Assemble has teamed up with British artist Simon Terrill to create full-size foam replicas of playground designs from architecture's Brutalist era (+ slideshow). More about Assemble's Brutalist Playground is a climbable landscape of ice-cream-coloured shapes
BIG has unveiled designs for Two World Trade Center, confirming that the skyscraper's original architect, Foster + Partners, has been ousted (+ slideshow). More about BIG unveils replacement for Foster's Two World Trade Center design
Comments update: a range of sex toys for women created to subvert stereotypes sparked a debate among readers this week about whether design could achieve the same for men. Read on for more on this and the other most commented stories on Dezeen. More about "Design should tackle the huge taboo surrounding sex toys for men"