Milan 2014: Amsterdam designers Studio Drift have fabricated a mirror from a synthetic glass created as a byproduct during the recycling of chemical waste. More about Studio Drift's Obsidian mirror made from chemical waste
Wooden shingles give a rough texture to the walls of this extension to a youth centre by Bernd Zimmermann – the German architect who recently completed a house clad with mirrors (+ slideshow). More about Youth centre extension by Bernd Zimmermann features a facade of wooden shingles
Milan 2014: these lamp shades by Eindhoven design graduates Sander Wassink and Ma'ayan Pesach are made from vintage and discarded glass stuck together with brightly coloured resin that creates a tinted light. More about Stacked Lights by Sander Wassink and Ma'ayan Pesach combine vintage glass with coloured resin
Milan 2014: industrial designer Konstantin Grcic has added an armchair to his family of Pro chairs, which has just been announced as one of the category winners for Designs of the Year 2014. More about Konstantin Grcic adds armchair to Pro seating collection for Flötotto
Footwear designer Benjamin John Hall dispersed black dye onto his latest shoe designs with a series of physical processes – including smashing, spraying and squeezing – during a live event at London College of Fashion (+ movie). More about Benjamin John Hall takes a hammer to porcelain shoes during live event
Japanese studio Nendo and Spanish shoe brand Camper have collaborated to create a range of sunglasses that feature overlapping coloured lenses. More about Nendo and Camper team up for sunglasses range
Dezeen Music Project: Imogen Heap has released a music video for her track Me The Machine, composed and performed using the Mi.Mu gloves she developed to create music with hand gestures. More about Imogen Heap's music video for Me The Machine created with her gesture-control gloves
News: British designer Thomas Heatherwick has revealed plans to create a cavernous public park in Abu Dhabi beneath a fragmented canopy resembling the cracked surface of the Arabian desert. More about Thomas Heatherwick unveils "sunken oasis" for Abu Dhabi
News: a New York developer has revealed first images of an apartment block redevelopment underway in Manhattan with interiors designed by this year's Pritzker Prize winner, Japanese architect Shigeru Ban. More about Shigeru Ban redesigns interiors for iron-clad New York apartment block
A geometric arrangement of CNC-cut plywood panels defines a lounge space in one corner of this live/work apartment in Warsaw by Polish designers Maciej Kurkowski and Maciej Sutuła (+ slideshow). More about Monochrome apartment by Maciej Kurkowski and Maciej Sutuła features conference spaces
Curving concrete walls frame secluded meeting rooms along the central thoroughfare of this architecture faculty building at Bond University in Queensland, Australia, by Peter Cook's architecture firm CRAB Studio (+ slideshow). More about CRAB Studio creates cave-like meeting rooms at Bond University architecture faculty
Milan 2014: flower stems thread through holes in these rings by graduate designer Gahee Kang, turning the silver and gold jewellery into posies (+ slideshow). More about Wild flowers complete Spring rings by Gahee Kang
News: a keyboard with squishy keys (pictured), a cultural centre by Zaha Hadid and furniture by Konstantin Grcic are among the category winners for the Designs of the Year 2014 awards, organised by London's Design Museum. More about Designs of the Year 2014 category winners announced
The facade of a 1950s house in south-west Germany has been transformed into a giant funhouse mirror as part of a renovation by German architect Bernd Zimmermann. More about Bernd Zimmermann's mirror-clad House wz2 offers distorted reflections
Milan 2014: Dutch designer Maarten Baas' created an indoor fairground earlier this month as a critique of Milan's design week, which he likens to a circus where products are "nothing more than a snapshot to share on Facebook" (+ slideshow + interview). More about Maarten Baas's surreal solo show created to "emphasise the circus that Milan is"
German car manufacturer BMW has unveiled Vision Future Luxury, a saloon concept car featuring augmented display technology (+ slideshow). More about BMW unveils Vision Future Luxury car with augmented reality display
Opinion: in choosing to stage a major exhibition of work by Marcel Wanders, the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam has mistaken commercial success for cultural importance, says Louise Schouwenberg. More about "Taste is not what a museum is about"
This house in the Swedish seaside town of Mölle by Stockholm studio Elding Oscarson has an upper storey clad with roughly sawn Douglas fir and a lower section that is entirely transparent (+ slideshow). More about Elding Oscarson completes Swedish seaside house in Mölle
Stones and shells from the seashore fill the walls of these eight contemporary British beach huts that London office Pedder & Scampton designed for the seaside town of Southend (+ slideshow). More about Traditional British beach huts get a modern makeover from Pedder & Scampton