Japanese furniture brand Kamarq has launched in New York with a collection of products that users can rent monthly, but pulled a design shortly afterwards amid plagiarism accusations. More
Airbnb has launched a new versatile brand typeface that is designed to have good readability across digital and print media. More
Women's rights activists like Eleanor Roosevelt, Frida Kahlo and Rosa Parks lend their names to designs in this series of hacked IKEA cabinets, created by New York City furniture start-up Norse. More
British architectural heavyweights Norman Foster and Richard Rogers have written tributes to Will Alsop, who passed away earlier this week. More
British studio United Visual Artists has installed a set of gold-mirrored columns in a courtyard in Brooklyn, which spin around to reflect light patterns, visitors, and the surrounding brick walls. More
Dezeen promotion: Furniture company Henge has created a dining table with a handmade "micro-mosaic" wooden top standing on bronze sand-casted legs. More
The design of the £5 billion development set to transform the northern docks of Liverpool, England, has been revised in response to concerns from the UNESCO conservation committee. More
Canadian studio Diamond Schmitt Architects has completed a new home for the Emily Carr University of Art & Design, which features white facades that are meant to evoke a blank canvas. More
UK prime minister Theresa May has pledged £400 million to remove and replace dangerous cladding on social-housing blocks, one year after the Grenfell Tower fire. More
British architect David Chipperfield has upgraded the Royal Academy of Arts in London, with a concrete bridge that connects two buildings, a new auditorium and renovated galleries. More
Construction is underway on the Shimao Shenzhen-Hong Kong International Centre, a 668-metre-high megatall skyscraper in Shenzhen, China. More
Tetrahedral concrete forms used to prevent coastal erosion provided the design cues for this soap, which would look at home in any brutalist bathroom. More
Chinese scientists have developed a wallpaper that can detect fires and set off an alarm if one occurs. More
The late Will Alsop wasn't always right, nor was his work always great – but his wild imagination and generous spirit were much needed in British architecture, says Sam Jacob. More
Large openings in the corrugated-metal facades of this boxy building in Shizuoka, Japan, frame views of the neighbourhood from a shop on the ground floor and residence above. More
