The Designed in CH Made in JP exhibition at Milan design week showed chairs designed by students at Swiss design school ECAL for the country's national pavilion at Expo 2025 Osaka. More about ECAL students and Karimoku create HUG chair for Swiss pavilion at Expo 2025 Osaka
Italian architect Carlo Ratti has revealed Essential, a pair of deliberately pared-back iridescent torches that will carry the Olympic and Paralympic flame at next year's Milano Cortina Winter Games. More about Carlo Ratti unveils duo of torches for Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Games
Architecture studio DeDraft used a plinth of rough-hewn Cotswold stone to ground this home in Rural Oxfordshire within its Grade II-listed parkland site. More about DeDraft contrasts concrete with rough Cotswold stone for parkland home
Architects Trey Trahan, Manuelle Gautrand and Anna Herringer, alongside designer Tejumola Butler Adenuga, have joined this year's judging panel for Dezeen Awards 2025. More about Trey Trahan, Manuelle Gautrand and Anna Herringer revealed as Dezeen Awards 2025 judges
Promotion: flooring brand Forbo presented its Furniture Linoleum collection in a brand new colour palette at Milan's Rosanna Orlandi Gallery during the city's design week. More about Forbo's Furniture Linoleum collection unveiled in a new colour palette at Milan design week
Dezeen Showroom: Belgian flooring brand Modulyss has introduced the Plus collection of carpet tiles, featuring versatile designs with a backing made of mostly circular materials. More about Plus collection carpet tiles by Modulyss
Copenhagen design studio SAGA has completed a four-bedroom astronaut training facility for the European Space Agency that will be used to train American and European space professionals for habitation on the moon. More about SAGA completes astronaut training habitat to simulate life on the moon
Dezeen School Shows: stainless steel sugar dispensers are among the experimental projects that challenge the dominance of western design paradigms by students at Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey. More about Rotating sugar dispensers among designs from Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey
Dezeen Showroom: Italian tile maker Casalgrande Padana combined the organic charm of terracotta and the practicality of porcelain in the Terrae collection, which includes the smoky shade Tabacco. More about Tabacco Terrae tiles by Casalgrande Padana
Large-scale works by Paris design studio Uchronia and TSOA's dean Stephanie Lin feature among the installations created for the 2025 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in California, USA. More about Coachella 2025 installations include giant flowers and pinwheels
Dezeen Showroom: warm-toned metals, leather and glass meet in these cylindrical lamps by Australian company Articolo Studios, which are characterised by manually rotatable shades. More about Swivel lighting collection by Articolo Studios
Curved concrete walls direct light towards the altar of Narac Church, completed by architecture practice Arkpro Studio in Albania. More about Arkpro Studio designs concrete church in Albania as "new village centre"
Following Milan design week, we've rounded up furniture and lighting designed by well-known architects and studios that made an appearance at this year's event. More about Ten notable furniture designs by architects from Milan design week
American tech entrepreneurs have opened up talks with officials about placing research-oriented freedom cities on the island of Greenland, according to a report in Reuters. More about American investors suggest building "freedom city" tech hub in Greenland
Design is being taken over by "toxic" luxury trends, French designer Philippe Starck told Dezeen in an interview at Milan design week. More about "I was shocked" by dominance of luxury brands in Milan says Philippe Starck
Dezeen Showroom: Italian architect Matteo Thun marked 10 years since the release of his Venere Bianca clay vases with SensiTerre – a tile collection created for ceramics company Florim. More about SensiTerre tile collection by Matteo Thun & Partners for Florim
A lush secret garden is among the spaces to discover inside the France Pavilion at Expo 2025 Osaka, which French firm Coldefy and Italian studio Carlo Ratti Associati have fronted with a giant copper staircase. More about Huge helical staircase emblazons French pavilion at Expo 2025 Osaka
Google has worked with artist Lachlan Turczan at Milan design week to present an immersive installation of mist and lasers that allows visitors to move light as though sweeping back curtains. More about Lachlan Turczan makes "the invisible visible" for Google Milan installation
Japanese designer Naoto Fukasawa and playground brand Jakuets have unveiled a series of sculptural objects for children to climb on, slide down or play with in any way they like, at Milan design week. More about Naoto Fukasawa designs colourful children's sculptures that are "impossible not to play with"
Promotion: American brick manufacturer The Belden Brick Company has created Luminescent, a range of decorative glazed bricks designed to shift in appearance from dawn to dusk. More about Belden Brick's Luminescent brick is designed to respond to changing daylight