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"
Angular, board-marked concrete walls offer a variety of views from the pared-back spaces inside this house designed by Steimle Architekten in Tübingen, Germany. More about Steimle Architekten completes "crystal-like" concrete house in Germany
Marcel Wanders has partnered with San Francisco company O2Today to release a set of air pollution masks made from patterned wool. More about Marcel Wanders designs air pollution masks with graphic prints for O2Today
Our job of the day from Dezeen Jobs is for a senior designer at David Gill Galleries in London, which recently exhibited lesser-known works by late architect Zaha Hadid. More ›
More about Job of the day: senior designer at David Gill Galleries
Austin studio Design Hound has completed a local home with light-toned facades, designed to help to create a "soft transition" into the residence's bright interior. More about Gable wall conceals double-height atrium in Austin home by Design Hound
A+Awards: this concert venue in the Dutch city of Leiden is clad with panels of weathering steel and was awarded a 2016 Architizer A+Award. More about Weathering steel clads "pop temple" in Leiden by Ector Hoogstad Architecten
The sculptural clothes of enigmatic Japanese designer Rei Kawakubo are the subject of this year's spring exhibition organised by the Costume Institute at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art. More about Comme des Garçons fashion exhibition opens at The Met in New York
A conceptual scheme by a team of South Korean designers calls for inserting towers within the hollowed-out trunks of giant sequoias in the western US. More about Skyscraper competition proposal involves erecting towers within world's largest trees
Ferrari's design team has created an office chair for Italian brand Poltrona Frau that resembles the driver's seat of a sports car. More about Ferrari design team creates Cockpit office chair for Poltrona Frau
In a play on Slovenia's traditional wooden barns, Dekleva Gregorič Arhitekti has extruded the shape of a chimney along the top of this house to create a continuous skylight. More about Dekleva Gregorič Arhitekti builds wooden house with chimney-shaped skylight
Danish homeware brand Carl Hansen & Son built a mock apartment featuring rich colours and mid-century furniture for its Salone del Mobile installation during Milan design week. More about Carl Hansen & Son builds faux apartment to explore how furniture makes a home
Spanish Zooco Estudio has completed a complex of granite-clad buildings in the city of Verín that come together to form an arts centre for the Galician region. More about Zooco Estudio uses granite to unify disparate blocks of Gallician arts centre
Our job of the day from Dezeen Jobs is for a landscape architect to join the London studio of Martha Schwartz Partners, whose projects include teardrop-shaped landscaping for an Abu Dhabi plaza. More ›
More about Job of the day: landscape architect at Martha Schwartz Partners
This colourful glass chair by Amsterdam designer Germans Ermičs is based on a seat designed by Shiro Kuramata in the 1970s. More about Germans Ermičs' Ombré chairs pay tribute to influential Japanese designer
Triangular windows are set beneath the pitched roofs of this house in England's South Downs National Park, which London studio Alma-nac designed to sit discreetly in its wooded setting. More about Alma-nac slots angular openings into timber-clad gables of House in the Woods
A spaceship-style shelter, and oversized "sofa island" and virtual-reality experiences all featured in furniture brand Cassina's Milan design week exhibition. More about Cassina marks 90th anniversary with installation exploring its past and future
The main living areas of this compact holiday home near New Zealand's Kaipara Harbour are arranged perpendicular to a platform that provides space for three tents used to accommodate guests. More about Tents create guest bedrooms with panoramic views at Peggy Deamer's New Zealand retreat
OMA's trouser-shaped CCTV tower and Herzog & de Meuron's Bird's Nest stadium feature in this photo series by Kris Provoost, which documents the "weird architecture" China has tried to ban. More about Kris Provoost photographs the most flamboyant architecture of China's building boom
Architect OMA has combined fluorescent rods with spotlights to create a linear lighting collection, presented by Belgian brand Delta Light during Milan design week. More about OMA's XY 180 lighting can be used to create geometric patterns
In this captioned movie, Hay co-founder Rolf Hay visits the factory where his latest chair is being made, as part of the Ypperlig furniture collection that the Danish brand is launching with IKEA. More about Behind-the-scenes footage reveals manufacturing of IKEA and Hay chair