In collaboration with Colorado-based Prometheus Materials, architecture studio SOM has created a spiral installation made of bio-bricks for the 2023 Chicago Architecture Biennial. More about SOM creates spiral of algae bricks for Chicago Architecture Biennial installation
Gridded fibre-cement cladding and a swimming pool with underwater windows feature at the East Van Residence in Vancouver by Canadian firm SMStudio. More about SMStudio includes pool with underwater windows in "bold" Vancouver house
Dezeen Showroom: first created in 1988, Spanish brand Expormim and studio Lievore Altherr Molina are celebrating the 25th anniversary of their Lapala chair with an updated woven version. More about Lapala 25th anniversary chair by Lievore Altherr Molina for Expormim
Dezeen Showroom: designed by French architect Jean-Michel Wilmotte for Parla, the Palm A chair is created to be used both inside and outdoors. More about Palm A chair by Jean-Michel Wilmotte for Parla
Dutch studio WillemsenU has completed a house that is partially buried underground to blend in with its rural surroundings in Eindhoven, the Netherlands. More about WillemsenU submerges house under the ground in the Netherlands
Rental website Airbnb has designed Shrek's Swamp, a grass-and-mud-covered hut underneath a tree in the Scottish Highlands. More about Shrek and Donkey invite guests to stay in mud-laden Shrek's Swamp
Social enterprise Goldfinger has launched its bespoke Tate Modern furniture collection made from fallen trees at London Design Festival. More about Goldfinger launches ash furniture that lets people "own a piece of Tate Modern"
Dezeen Showroom: Italian ceramics brand Atlas Concorde has created a collection of marble-effect porcelain stoneware named Marvel Onyx, informed by the luminosity and veined surfacing of natural onyx stone. More about Marvel Onyx surfaces by Atlas Concorde
In this week's comments update, readers are discussing a concrete multi-generational home in India and debating news that construction has resumed on Jeddah Tower in Saudi Arabia. More about "Enlightened by subtle openings" says commenter
Designers and brands must get thinking now about the simple, immediate changes that can make their products more accessible to people living with disabilities, writes Luc Speisser of Landor & Fitch. More about "People living with disabilities are done waiting for accessible designs"
Future-gazing architect and filmmaker Liam Young explains why he believes humans will fail to avert climate catastrophe in this interview with Dezeen. More about "I'm filled with dread" over climate change says Liam Young
Israeli architecture studio Baranowitz and Goldberg Architects has created Yama, a fishmonger in Tel Aviv with a sculptural interior that was informed by jewellery stores. More about Yama fishmonger in Tel Aviv was designed to display fish "like jewels"
As part of our Dezeen Jobs: How We Recruit series, architecture studio dRMM's director Saskia Lencer explains what the practice looks for when it hires new staff and how its recruitment needs have changed over the years. More about "Having outspoken team members has always been very important to dRMM"
Valentino Architects and curator Ann Dingli have presented a proposal to retrofit a historic fortification at the Venice Architecture Biennale to suggest alternative methods of conservation in the face of Malta's rapid development. More about Għallis exhibition suggests alternative to Malta's "unstoppable trajectory of hyper-development"