Dezeen promotion: window manufacturer Fakro has launched a range of skylights suited to flat roofs, including one that shuts automatically when it begins to rain. More about Fakro launches skylights designed especially for flat roofs
Reykjavík-based designer Thórunn Árnadottir has combined local Icelandic materials with broken toys to create a series of interactive devices, which she is presenting at DesignMarch 2017. More about Thórunn Árnadottir creates interactive toys using traditional Icelandic materials
American artist Doug Wheeler has transformed a gallery at the Solomon R Guggenheim Museum in New York into an all-white room designed to evoke the sensation of vast infinite space. More about Doug Wheeler installs spiky-floored Synthetic Desert at New York's Guggenheim Museum
MVRDV has revealed its design for a pair of mixed-use towers in The Hague, which will feature natural stone facades that stagger into wooden outdoor spaces on top. More about MVRDV unveils pair of stone towers for The Hague topped with "crown of terraces"
Dezeen promotion: Czech furniture brand TON presents upholstered chairs based on the shapes of leaves, created by Italian designer Alexander Gufler, during Milan design week next month. More about TON launches Alba chair based on shape of folded leaves
Architects Megumi Matsubara and Hiroi Ariyama arranged this house in the forest near Karuizawa around five courtyards to provide views of vegetation both inside and outside the building. More about House in a Japanese forest features secluded courtyards framing views of trees and sky
One of the best-known projects of SANAA co-founder Ryue Nishizawa has been recreated inside London's Barbican as part of an exhibition about Japanese housing, along with a charred timber teahouse by Terunobu Fujimori. More about Full-size houses by Ryue Nishizawa and Terunobu Fujimori built inside Japanese House exhibition at Barbican
John McAslan + Partners and Triad Architects have built a cathedral on the edge of a tea plantation outside Nairobi, Kenya, featuring a tiled and angled roof lined with wooden slats. More about Huge inclined roof spans cathedral built by John McAslan + Partners on Kenyan tea plantation
Romanian designers say they are about to storm the world stage – and they're not going to let the lack of home-grown brands, manufacturers or heritage stop them. More about Romanian designers champion "clumsy, simple but honest" furniture
Our job of the day from Dezeen Jobs is for a California-licensed architect at OMA, which won a contest last year to transform a site in Downtown Los Angeles into a public park. More ›
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During this year's Milan design week, London studio Made in Ratio will present an environmentally sustainable table with recycled aluminium legs and a bamboo top. More about Made in Ratio to launch bamboo-topped Stellar Nova table during Milan design week
Perforated-aluminium screens zigzag around the walls of this cylindrical arts museum in Shanghai, which was designed by Wutopia Lab and features a 1970s-style rockery. More about Pleated shutters enclose cylindrical enamelware museum and cultural centre by Wutopia Lab
Tequila-fuelled parties can be held at this social venue, created by Mexican firm Quince Cuarenta Arquitectura for a distillery in Jalisco, while quieter sampling sessions take place underneath. More about 1540 Arquitectura adds cosy cellar and events terrace to tequila distillery
American architect Richard Meier has debuted a range of simple white lamps, in keeping with the signature pared-back style of his buildings. More about Richard Meier launches minimal lighting collection that resembles his architecture
This week's Dezeen Mail features flat-pack bamboo furniture by German designer Stefan Diez and a conceptual looped skyscraper in New York from local studio Oiio. Subscribe to Dezeen Mail ›
More about Latest Dezeen Mail includes flat-pack bamboo furniture and a looped skyscraper proposed for New York
Tabletops melt into bowls in Nendo's new furniture collection, which will make its debut at Milan design week. More about Nendo's Flow furniture collection combines tables with giant bowls
A trio of courtyards covered in cobbles and surrounded by glass break up this London home, which has cedar-lined walls that reference the old timber store it replaces. More about De Rosee Sa uses cobbled courtyards to bring light into west London house
Is it possible to speak buildings into being? The exhibitors at annual property fair MIPIM may try, but they need to come up with far more extreme fictions, says Sam Jacob in his latest Opinion column. More about "MIPIM is one big performance with the purpose of speaking cities into existence"
In a bid to get around terrestrial height restrictions, Clouds Architecture Office has proposed suspending the world's tallest skyscraper from an asteroid, leaving residents to parachute to earth. More about Supertall skyscraper hangs from orbiting asteroid in Clouds Architecture Office concept
In the next movie in our Bolon at Heart video series, Stockholm design duo Emma Marga Blanche and Fredrick Färg explain how they combined material by flooring company Bolon with thermoplastic felt to create an armchair informed by Japanese armour. More about Färg & Blanche uses Bolon fabric to create samurai-inspired Long Neck armchair