The crackled texture of Kengo Kuma & Associates’ new lighting collection for Lasvit was created by blowing molten glass into dry wooden moulds. More about Kengo Kuma burns woods to create crackled glass lighting for Lasvit
Artist Anish Kapoor has called for artists to not shy aware from "real-world questions", and to engage with issues such as nationalism, Brexit and Donald Trump. More about "It is necessary to oppose Trump" says Anish Kapoor
Canadian company Modpools has converted standard, metal cargo containers into pools and jacuzzis that can be installed above or below ground. More about Modpools repurposes used shipping containers as swimming pools and hot tubs
Perforated metal surfaces form a white "veil" around the main hall of this chapel designed by Neri&Hu for a hotel complex near the Chinese city of Suzhou. More about Neri&Hu's Suzhou Chapel combines textured brick base with ethereal white cube
Aiming to make the television the focal point of a room, Bodo Sperlein devised a sculptural design based on art deco and Bauhaus styles. More about Bodo Sperlein's latest product for Loewe aims to "de-geezer the TV"
White ribbed panelling provides a neutral backdrop for smoked-oak furnishings and marble bathrooms in this former west London office, which McLaren Excell has converted into a family home. More about McLaren Excell contrasts smoked oak with white panelling for London home in a former office
Our job of the day from Dezeen Jobs is for a retail development coordinator at Aesop in Singapore, where the brand's Snøhetta-designed store features an upside-down forest. More>
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Botswanan brand Mabeo has launched three new collections of furniture made using wood and waste metal from the local construction industry. More about Southern African wood and galvanised metal combine in furniture by Mabeo
Angled concrete surfaces collide to form the facades of this guesthouse by South Korean studio IDMM Architects and Heesoo Kwak, which features sections that thrust out towards the nearby Bukhan River. More about Cantilevered concrete volumes provide river and mountain views at Guesthouse Rivendell
Mexican firm Sordo Madaleno Arquitectos has stacked offset volumes that contain a hotel and office spaces to form a tower in Guadalajara. More about Angled louvres shade glass skyscraper in Guadalajara by Sordo Madaleno Arquitectos
A series of limited-edition items 3D-printed by Othr in materials including steel and porcelain are debuting at the Collective Design fair in New York today. More about Othr 3D-prints abstract vessels by emerging designers for Collective Design
Elon Musk has revealed a plan for easing city congestion that would see an underground network of tunnels transporting cars on high-speed skates travelling at 130 miles per hour. More about Elon Musk's Boring Company plans to beat traffic with underground "car skates"
Over the last few months we've been publishing short movies about shape-shifting architecture on our Facebook page. Here are 10 of the best, including projects with sliding walls, kinetic facades and rotating rooms. More about 10 movies featuring buildings that move or change shape
Dezeen opinion columnist Phineas Harper argued architects should abandon modernism in favour of traditional styles to appease populists, sparking a debate among readers in this week's comments update. More about "Make British architecture great again!"
Vito Acconci, whose provocative works range from an artificial island to a performance that involved masturbation, has died aged 77. More about "Subversive, shocking and truly unique" artist and architect Vito Acconci dies
US firm Andersson-Wise Architects has created a modest boathouse in Texas, designed to blend with its site as if it were "in a state of natural decomposition". More about Andersson-Wise assembles new and salvaged materials into rustic Austin boathouse
Following on from Balenciaga's recent take on the IKEA Frakta bag, Los Angeles fashion brands Pleasures and Chinatown Market have made a baseball hat from the 40p tote. More about IKEA's blue bag has been reimagined as a baseball hat
This concrete house in Tel Aviv by Bar Orian Architects features vertical louvres that can be either rotated to filter light or slid open to reveal the windows behind. More about Box-framed louvres shade windows of concrete house in Tel Aviv
Filigreed carbon-fibre shutters fold around the oriel window of Foster + Partners' Apple Store in Dubai, shading the shop floor during the day but opening at night to views of the Burj Khalifa. More about Foster + Partners completes Dubai Apple Store with carbon-fibre "solar wings"
Dezeen promotion: the challenges of regional political instability have fuelled the creativity of designers in Lebanon, says the director of Beirut Design Week, which takes place in the city this month. More about Beirut Design Week returns to show the world Lebanon "is not just about political instability"