Textile company Bananatex has developed a biodegradable lightweight jersey fabric by extracting fibres from the stalks of Abacá banana plants. More about Bananatex produces compostable jersey made from Abacá banana plants
Promotion: Mexican artist Fernando Laposse aims to honour French champagne house Perrier-Jouët's heritage in an installation at Design Miami made up of 3D-printed animals and flowers. More about Fernando Laposse and Perrier-Jouët collaborate on floral installation for Design Miami
Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Felicita Gāga has turned the practice of doomscrolling into a digital outfit. More about Felicita Gāga designs digital dress "made of social media noise"
Dezeen Courses: we've rounded up six short courses that intend to enhance proficiency in design software, including Adobe Creative Suite, Grasshopper, Rhino and SketchUp. More about Six short courses on design software on Dezeen Courses
US architecture practice StudioSC teamed up with Colombian studio Base Taller to design a triangular concrete commercial office building in Medellín, Colombia. More about StudioSC and Base Taller create concrete office building on steep Colombia site
The latest edition of our Dezeen Debate newsletter features Vruit, a set of sex toys designed for self-insemination. Subscribe to Dezeen Debate now. More about Dezeen Debate features "innovative" vibrator that doubles as artificial insemination device
Danish architecture practice 3XN has been selected to create a stepped retail building located along Baltimore's Inner Harbor informed by sailboats. More about 3XN to create stepped building for Baltimore's Inner Harbor
Dezeen School Shows: a youth hostel built on a former car park in New Orleans is included in Dezeen's latest school show by students at Tulane University in Louisiana. More about Nine architecture, preservation and development projects by students at Tulane University
Promotion: technology brand HP has expanded its DesignJet plotter printer series with the addition of three 36-inch models suitable for office or home use. More about HP launches three DesignJet plotters made from recycled materials
Scottish architecture studio Loader Monteith has designed an office with a gabled roof, along with two private residences, for mountain bike tour operator H&I Adventures on a sloping brownfield site in Scotland. More about Loader Monteith adds charred-timber-clad office to brownfield site in Inverness
A castle-like house by London studio Denizen Works that is vying for the RIAS Andrew Doolan Best Building in Scotland Award is the focus of this video, produced by Stephenson&. More about Hundred Acre Wood house resembles object "eroded by the weather"
Architecture studio Foster + Partners has revealed a masterplan for an urban centre near Hangzhou in China, which will be based around a skyscraper-flanked spine.
More about Foster + Partners unveils design for Hangzhou centre around "leafy spine"
Embassies designed for the United States by Walter Gropius and Eero Saarinen feature in this roundup based on David B Peterson's book US Embassies of the Cold War: The Architecture of Democracy, Diplomacy and Defense. More about Ten Cold War US embassies that embody America's 20th-century "victorious exuberance"
The world urgently needs architects and designers to start prioritising humanitarian projects, writes Cameron Sinclair as part of our Designing for Disaster series. More about "How we respond to disasters tells us a lot about our future"
At Dutch Design Week, London-based food designer Leyu Li showcased three conceptual products that combine lab-grown meat with vegetables, called Broccopork, Mushchicken and Peaf. More about Leyu Li proposes hybrid meaty vegetables by merging lab-grown meat with plants
British industrial designer Michael Young has joined Dezeen Awards China 2023 as a judge. Here, he selects five projects that best reflect his work. More about Five key projects by industrial designer and Dezeen Awards China judge Michael Young
Architecture studio Perkins&Will has placed a series of greenhouses on top of a concrete structure to create this agricultural research centre in California. More about Perkins&Will crowns Californian research centre with series of greenhouses
US studio ICRAVE has revealed images of the public spaces inside the world's largest spherical structure in Las Vegas. More about ICRAVE unveils sci-fi interiors of MSG Sphere Las Vegas
In our latest interview as part of our Dezeen Jobs: How We Recruit series, Sue Emms, chair of architecture studio BDP's North Region, discusses the importance of diversity in the workforce. More about "Our values are strong and support the recruitment of diverse talent" says BDP's Sue Emms
Dezeen School Shows: a breathable uniform designed for nurses going through menopause is included in Dezeen's latest school show by students at Northumbria University. More about Northumbria University presents 10 product design student projects