Japanese architect Uoya Shigenori stripped back and reconfigured this 100-year-old townhouse in Kyoto to create moody and tranquil interiors for Maana Kamo guesthouse. More about Century-old Japanese dwelling transformed into minimalist guesthouse
Lekker Architects and Lanzavecchia + Wai have designed an IKEA-inspired manual filled with tips and tricks on how to hack the Swedish company's products to better serve people living with dementia. More about Hack Care is an IKEA-style catalogue of DIY adjustments for dementia-friendly homes
Design firm Home Studios used a medley of bespoke furniture and vintage finds to revamp this family apartment in New York's NoHo neighbourhood. More about Home Studios fills 20 Bond apartment in New York with one-off decor details
Milanese design studio Older has created a series of objects including marble wall-hangings shaped to look like breasts with pierced nipples, and an inflatable chair named after a Blade Runner character. More about Older's "playful" Wide Eye collection features inflatable chair and marble breasts
Looking for inspiration for your dream kitchen? In our latest Dezeen Lookbook, we've rounded up 30 architect-designed kitchens from our archives. More about Thirty kitchens designed by architects
This week on Dezeen, passengers travelled in Virgin's levitating Hyperloop capsules for the first time, as the company carried out a 15-second-long test trip in the Nevada desert. More about This week Virgin Hyperloop welcomed its first human passengers
Chicago art space Wrightwood 659 is presenting a showcase of works by Indian architect Balkrishna Doshi. Curator Khushnu Panthaki Hoof selects four projects that show how the Pritzker Prize-winner interprets Hindu philosophy in architecture. More about Four Balkrishna Doshi projects exploring Hindu philosophy in India
Office furniture brand IOC Project Partners, Italian furniture brand Flexform, British shelving brand ON&ON and textile company Camira have presented new products on Dezeen Showroom this week. More about IOC Project Partners, Flexform, ON&ON and Camira present products on Dezeen Showroom
Dezeen promotion: IE University student Jose Maria Mateo has designed a conceptual series of devices called NUDes that could be plugged into buildings to upgrade or adapt them to different conditions, like a pandemic. More about Jose Maria Mateo's NUDes project shows how housing can be used as "a weapon" against pandemics
SHAW Architecture & Design Studio has created a modest exhibition centre for an organic farm in Loudi, a secluded village in China's Shanxi province. More about Tiny exhibition centre on remote Chinese farm features timber interiors
Swedish furniture brands are the most sustainable in the world, according to a survey by design procurement consultancy Dodds & Shute. More about Sweden tops sustainability audit but furniture sector "turning a blind eye" to environmental issues
Dezeen Showroom: trestle legs and a customisable, J-shaped privacy screen distinguish the Solari desk system, developed by Italian office furniture company IOC Project Partners in collaboration with Gensler. More about IOC Project Partners designs Solari workstation in collaboration with Gensler
The winners of the AHEAD Europe hospitality awards will be announced on Monday in a virtual ceremony broadcast on Dezeen. More about AHEAD Europe hospitality awards winners to be announced in virtual ceremony
Dezeen Showroom: international furniture brand Andreu World has launched Giro Soft, a modular sofa system created by Alfredo Häberli. More about Alfredo Häberli creates "architectural" Giro Soft sofa for Andreu World
A group of American scientists and designers have developed a concept for a grow-your-own steak kit using human cells and blood to question the ethics of the cultured meat industry. More about Ouroboros Steak grow-your-own human meat kit is "technically" not cannibalism
Dezeen promotion: floor-and wall-covering brand Ariostea has added the Michelangelo Altissimo, Brilliant Green and Verde Saint Denis marble-look textures to its Ultra Marmi collection of large porcelain slabs. More about Ariostea unveils new marble-effect textures as part of Ultra Marmi collection
Dezeen Showroom: Monforte, created by Italian architect and designer Raffaella Mangiarotti for IOC Project Partners, is a sculptural, undulating room divider that can be used to separate desks and entire self-enclosed meeting rooms. More about Monforte soundproof partition by Raffaella Mangiarotti for IOC Project Partners
Architecture firm Foster + Partners has employed a robot dog named Spot, designed by Boston Dynamics, to oversee construction at Battersea Power Station in London. More about Foster + Partners adopts Spot the Boston Dynamics robot dog
The latest edition of our Dezeen Weekly newsletter features 10 kitchens by designers experimenting with bright tiles and coloured cabinets. More about Ten colourful kitchens and Tesla tequila feature in today's Dezeen Weekly newsletter
Monolithic volumes clad in stainless steel reflect the trees surrounding the National Museum of the United States Army, which architecture firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill has completed in Virginia. More about SOM's National Museum of the United States Army opens in Virginia