Dezeen promotion: a symposium covering the most important architecture and design projects from the past 12 months will take place 9 December 2017 at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, with speakers including architects Wang Shu and David Adjaye. More about A Year of Architecture in a Day talks return to The Met in New York
Architect Michael Viviano has worked with his mum and dad to create them this concrete and timber house with a gable roof in Houston, Texas. More about Michael Viviano designs gabled house for his parents in Houston
The products that designers help create are the biggest contributors to climate change, according to research presented at our Good Design for a Bad World talks at Dutch Design Week last month. More about Mobile phones and other industrial products have "the number one impact" on climate change
Danish firm 3XN has completed a large sporting and cultural arena in Copenhagen, featuring a glazed curtain wall wrapped in timber fins arranged to allow partial views of the interior. More about Copenhagen arena by 3XN has an undulating wooden facade that rises up above entrances
Lee Broom has collaborated with glassware brand Nude to create a 10-metre-tall Christmas tree made of 245 individual hand-blown glass pendant lights inside The Shard in London. More about Lee Broom creates Christmas tree from 245 pendant lights inside The Shard
Architecture studio Fahed + Architects repurposed bedsprings to create this temporary pavilion in the centre of the Dubai Design District. More about Fahed + Architects create bulbous copper pavilion from old bedsprings at Dubai Design Week
Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Alice Bleton has designed a rooftop capsule to give city-dwellers a temporary retreat from their congested environment. More about Alice Bleton's bunker-like capsule offers an escape from busy city life
Brightly coloured circulation spaces contrast with the slick metal exterior of this data centre in Amsterdam, which Benthem Crouwel Architects designed as a more attractive take on high-security infrastructural architecture. More about Benthem Crouwel adds stripy tower surrounded by a moat to Amsterdam data centre
Albert C Ledner, an apprentice to Frank Lloyd Wright who helped proliferate modern architecture across the US, has died in New Hampshire aged 93. More about American modernist architect Albert C Ledner dies aged 93
British architecture firm McLean Quinlan has constructed a stone house in Jackson, Wyoming, modelled on a nearby 19th-century log cabin. More about Historic homestead informs McLean Quinlan's stone house in Wyoming
Dezeen is giving away five sets of rechargeable bike lights and magnetic reflectors that clip onto clothing, which are all designed by Swedish bicycle accessory brand Bookman. More about Competition: win a set of Bookman bicycle lights and magnetic reflectors
Tunisian-born fashion designer Azzedine Alaïa, who was known for his figure-fitting dresses, has died at the age of 77. More about Fashion designer Azzedine Alaïa dies age 77
Staff cuts could put the publishing and exhibitions operations at the Architectural Association school at risk, prompting outrage from leading architects and writers. More about Architectural Association accused of "destroying its own cultural mission" over redundancy plans
New York-based Narofsky Architecture has built this house on a hurricane-damaged site in Long Island, with wooden cladding and furniture made from trees knocked down during the storm. More about Long Island house for a tailor is built using trees felled in hurricane
This shot of a dramatically lit swimming pool, taken by Terrence Zhang, has been named architectural photograph of the year. More about Image of swimming pool with vaulted ceiling named best architecture photograph of 2017
Studio Roosegaarde has restored a set of flood defences in the Netherlands, impregnating the floodgates with a new retroreflective material that glows in the headlights of oncoming cars. More about Restored floodgates by Studio Roosegaarde reflect the headlights of passing cars
Our pick of the best architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs this week include positions with Italian office Studio Fuksas, Australian firm Woods Bagot and UK firm Conran and Partners. More about Top five architecture and design jobs this week include Studio Fuksas and Woods Bagot
A group of 10 designers from the Netherlands has teamed up with manufacturer Low & Bonar to create a set of products made from its non-woven Colback textile. More about Dutch designers showcase furniture and products made from unusual textile
Dezeen promotion: Dutch designer Egbert-Jan Lam has created a range of translucent wooden light shades for Spanish brand LZF, which are sewn together like items of clothing. More about LZF designs pendant light shades that are stitched like textiles
The founder of MW Architects used black-blue engineering bricks to add an extension of just seven square metres to his renovated London home. More about Matthew Wood adds seven-square-metre extension to his small London home