Industrial design studio Pearson Lloyd and furnituremaker Cozmo have created Hug, a modular sofa conceived to mimic the feeling of a warm embrace, unveiled during London Design Festival. More about Pearson Lloyd designs high-backed Hug sofa to "deliver the right posture"
London designers, including Attua Aparicio, James Shaw and Studio Furthermore, have worked with local teenagers to develop a public bench for Camden council as part of a project by social enterprise Store that was unveiled at the London Design Festival. More about School pupils design modular public seating for King's Cross
Promotion: feedback from Michelin-starred chefs informed the upgraded version of Gozney's Dome outdoor oven, offering 90 per cent more cooking space and the option to cook with wood, gas or charcoal so that home cooks can go "beyond pizza". More about Gozney's Dome Gen 2 oven enables "restaurant-grade live-fire cooking at home"
A retired mother enlisted the help of her daughter, a principal at Best Practice Architecture, to convert a neglected home into a wooden shingle-clad "multigenerational home base" with a basement level that can serve as its own apartment. More about Best Practice Architecture adds scalloped shingles to renovated 1950s house in Seattle
The latest edition of our weekly Dezeen Agenda newsletter features a masterplan for an urban district in Baghdad. Subscribe to Dezeen Agenda now. More about Dezeen Agenda features an urban district in Iraq
American lighting companies are using 3D-printing and digital manufacturing to try and fix the "extremely broken" lighting manufacturing industry, Ellen Eberhardt reports. More about US lighting brands "not going back to 20th-century manufacturing"
Promotion: Tile of Spain has launched its annual competition calling for creatives to submit their projects to its 2025 awards, which celebrate the innovative use of Spanish ceramics. More about Tile of Spain Awards 2025 opens for entries
Dezeen has teamed up with German appliance brand Gaggenau to showcase its newest oven, as revealed in this video created by Dezeen for the brand. More about Gaggenau unveils oven featuring "floating control ring" in Dezeen video
Reclaimed bricks, timber and ventilation pipes determined the form of the Inside Out, Downside Up pavilion, hand-built by architecture studio Slaatto Morsbøl for the inaugural Copenhagen Architecture Biennial. More about Reclaimed materials shape Copenhagen Architecture Biennial pavilion by Slaatto Morsbøl
As part of the London Design Festival, Charlotte Taylor has curated an exhibition of collectible design pieces from almost 40 women creatives. Here, she explains why it's not just a "female design show". More about Charlotte Taylor's debut LDF exhibition allows "female design to stand for itself"
Ten leading architects including Norman Foster, Grafton Architects and Jacques Herzog have designed bird feeders that will be auctioned at Christie's during Frieze London 2025. More about Norman Foster, Grafton and Jacques Herzog design bird feeders for brain cancer charity auction
The inaugural Copenhagen Architecture Biennial wants to create practical solutions to the global challenges that are being exacerbated by the built environment, says director Josephine Michau in this interview. More about "It's time for activism" says inaugural Copenhagen Architecture Biennial director
A foldable metal armchair and a nougat-like bench are among the standout products on show at this year's Lake Como Design Festival. More about Seven furnishings by emerging designers at Lake Como Design Festival
Australian artist duo Craig & Karl has created inflatable interventions for several walking bridges in Brisbane, Australia, incorporating sweeping arches and domes that respond to the unique architecture of each structure. More about Craig & Karl takes over Brisbane bridges with colourful inflatables
Mexican studio V Taller has completed a residential complex in Tulum, Mexico that features a series of vaulted apartments surrounding a tower representative of the mythical Tower of Babel, all finished in pink stucco. More about V Taller references Tower of Babel in design of Mexican residential complex
Patterned walls of rammed-earth bricks and carpentry in local hardwoods celebrate "ancestral materials and methods" at the African Flow School, a kindergarten in Cameroon designed by Barcelona-based architecture studio Urbanitree. More about Urbanitree uses local materials and construction methods for African Flow School in Cameroon
On the heels of the 20th anniversary edition of Helsinki Design Week, Dezeen reporter Jane Englefield rounds up five enduring Finnish design principles she spotted at the city's biggest industry festival. More about Five ideas that marked 20 years of Helsinki Design Week
The government of Canada has launched Build Canada Homes, a federal agency that will leverage public-private partnership "to build affordable housing at scale and at speed" in order to address the country's housing crisis. More about Canada launches nationwide home building agency focused on mass timber
Artist Roo Dhissou and UK studio Intervention Architecture have designed Heal, Home, Hmm, a modular pavilion made using Punjabi mud building techniques, which is on display at the V&A as part of the London Design Festival. More about Roo Dhissou builds cob house inside V&A using mud from HS2 excavation sites
Architecture studio All(zone) has curated the Shanghai Picnic installation for the RAM Assembles architecture biennial, which features a series of pavilions made from colourful fabrics. More about All(zone) creates fabric pavilions in Shanghai to turn the city into "a shared canvas"