Floating saunas, an egg-shaped sauna and a sauna built like a concrete mine shaft are some of the 10 unique saunas to warm up in cold countries. More about Ten steamy saunas to sweat it out in colder climes
This week on Dezeen, the work of up-and-coming French designers, alongside sofas and rugs were on show at the Maison&Objet furniture and accessories fair in Paris. More about This week sofas and young designers were showcased at Maison&Objet
Architects including Junya Ishigami, Elizabeth Diller and Shohei Shigematsu spoke at the inaugural The World Around architecture forum in New York. Watch the full conference on Dezeen. More about Watch The World Around architecture conference in New York
British designer Samuel Wilkinson has updated the classic director's chair, introducing a hidden mechanism that allows the fabric seat to be held in tension without any noticeable support. More about Samuel Wilkinson designs contemporary take on the director's chair
David Adjaye has used pink-tinted concrete to form a "tough and gentle" store in Los Angeles for fashion retailer The Webster, which marks the British-Ghanaian architect's first project in California. More about David Adjaye curves pink concrete around Los Angeles store The Webster
Designer Julia Lohmann's Department of Seaweed is showing a pavilion made of kelp and rattan at the World Economic Forum conference in Davos, where world leaders have met this week. More about Julia Lohmann brings seaweed pavilion to Davos as climate-change warning
Los Angeles studio Lawson-Fenning has outfitted an apartment in RM Schindler's 1930s residential building Manola Court with furniture influenced by California modernism. More about California modernists RM Schindler and Richard Neutra influence Maker's Collection furniture
Autonomous vehicle startup Cruise has revealed its first self-driving, electric car designed for shared ownership, which has no steering wheel or pedals. More about Cruise unveils its driverless Origin car for shared ownership
Social Design Collaborative has created ModSkool, a modular anti-eviction school for farming communities in Delhi that can be quickly dismantled if the settlement is demolished. More about School for squatters in India can be dismantled to evade bulldozers
PriestmanGoode has unveiled designs for the interiors and branding of Indian co-living venture Olive, which will launch with a 15,000-bed community in Bangalore. More about PriestmanGoode to design interiors of vast Indian co-living spaces
Hydbrid Air Vehicles has revealed the production-ready design of its Airlander 10 — and said the aircraft once fondly known as "the Flying Bum" might go electric in the near future. More about Refined Airlander 10 design set to go into production
MDF tiles and blue carpet are some of the simple materials that architecture studio Dvekati has used to furnish this office in Moscow, which takes cues from the pared-back aesthetic of Soviet modernism. More about Dvekati references 1960s Russia for interior of Moscow office
Industrial design duo SF-SO forgo homogenous touchscreens in favour of a sensory, analogue interface for products that offer users a respite from their online lives. More about SF-SO strips back digital products to help us disconnect
Chinese practice Arch Studio have renovated an abandoned hutong in Beijing, making a house with curving glass walls around internal courtyards. More about Curving glass walls bulge into courtyards of converted Beijing hutong
New York studio General Assembly has reconfigured a 1970s apartment in the city's Upper East Side into a sun-light space with a home office. More about General Assembly upgrades apartment inside brutalist Manhattan tower
Designing more sustainable structures is not about deciding what is good or bad, but making more carefully considered design decisions, says architect Diébédo Francis Kéré. More about "We have to be careful not to condemn" in the face of the climate crisis says Diébédo Francis Kéré
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Danish architect Bjarke Ingels has defended his decision to meet with Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro and said he intends to work in the country in the future. More about Criticism of Jair Bolsonaro meeting is "an oversimplification of a complex world" says Bjarke Ingels
OMA New York, led by Shohei Shigematsu, has revealed its design for galleries inside the Denver Art Museum designed by famed Italian architect Gio Ponti. More about OMA unveils design galleries in Gio Ponti's Denver Art Museum
More than 100 trees will adorn the gridded facade of IKEA's city-centre Vienna Westbahnhof store, which will have no car parking spaces. More about IKEA reveals plans for car-free store wrapped in greenery