Dezeen School Shows: a project exploring patterns of depopulation in Japan's rural villages and 3D-printed stoneware designed to filter light are included in Dezeen's latest school show by students at the University of Waterloo. More about University of Waterloo spotlights 10 architecture projects
The Canadian branch of UK architecture studio BDP has released designs for the 15 Toronto Street super-skinny skyscraper in the city's financial district. More about BDP Quadrangle designs super-skinny skyscraper for Toronto
A winding wooden path leads to a natural amphitheatre created by rippling mounds of grass at this garden in Lijiang, China, which was designed by landscape studio Z'scape and has been shortlisted for the Dezeen Awards 2022. More about Z'scape adds grassy amphitheatre and wild garden to hotel in rural China
Italian architect Gaetano Pesce created a colourful resin-covered floor and designed 400 cotton-and-resin chairs for fashion brand Bottega Veneta's Spring Summer 2023 show in Milan. More about Gaetano Pesce creates swirling resin set for Bottega Veneta at Milan Fashion Week
An art installation featuring a waterfall, a wild garden and a number of kinetic artworks has opened on a former North Sea offshore gas platform in Weston-super-Mare, England, as part of the Unboxed festival. More about Newsubstance creates 35-metre-tall See Monster from North Sea gas rig
Brightly coloured chairs and personal memorabilia feature in the Parables for Happiness exhibition showcasing the works of London-based designer Yinka Ilori at the Design Museum. More about Exhibition dedicated to the work of Yinka Ilori opens at London's Design Museum
Mexican design office Departamento del Distrito has created a totem equipped with solar power that produces light, plays music, measures the weather and cools down the air on a Mexico City rooftop. More about Departamento del Distrito turns telecom mast into solar-power tower
After 7,000 votes, projects by Scott Whitby Studio and Heatherwick Studio are ahead in the Dezeen Awards 2022 public vote architecture categories. Vote now for your favourite! More about See who's ahead in the Dezeen Awards 2022 architecture public vote
British studio Holloway Li has collaborated with furniture producer Uma Objects on T4, a modular collection of chubby seats that evoke designs found in 1990s popular culture and launched during London Design Festival. More about Holloway Li releases chubby furniture collection informed by retro 1990s design
Dezeen Showroom: a rich-hued brown sofa that was informed by 1970s conversation pits is among 13 new products featured on Dezeen Showroom. More about Float sofa by Ellison Studios among new products on Dezeen Showroom
Austrian designer Julia Koerner has created a 3D-printed clutch bag for her fashion brand JK3D, which is made from bioplastic and modelled on tendrils of kelp. More about Kelp Mini Clutch is a bioplastic bag based on 3D-scans of seaweed
An exhibition of hand-crafted art and design pieces, including a seminal sculpture by Charles and Ray Eames, is on display at the former New Jersey home of 20th-century landscape architect James Rose. More about At the Rose House is a design showcase at the home of famed landscape architect
Chinese studio Muda Architects has designed a lakeside bookshop in Chengdu featuring a roof that resembles an upturned book and windows that extend below the water level. More about Muda Architects completes bookshop in Chengdu with roof shaped like "a flipped book"
Flamingo pink walls in a Greek seaside apartment and a living space in Italy defined by primary colours feature in our latest lookbook, which collects colourful living rooms that are designed to stand out. More about Ten colourful living rooms that make a statement with bold hues
Furniture company SCP has tasked a group of British designers including Faye Toogood and Sebastian Cox to craft objects from the wood of a tree infected with ash dieback disease for this year's London Design Festival. More about Ten designers create products from a single dying ash tree for SCP
Caleb Johnson Studio has created a timber-clad family home in Otisfield, Maine that has no primary bedroom in order to "reinforce familial bonds". More about Caleb Johnson Studio clads Pieri Pines lake house in Maine with local cedar
Japanese studio Nori Architects has used whole cedar logs, earth plaster and waste materials to retrofit the 30-year-old concrete framed Good Cycle Building in Nagoya prefecture More about Nori Architects adds cedar-log columns to renovated Japanese office
In this lookbook, we pick out 10 home interiors that feature walk-in closets designed to provide bedroom storage that is both practical and appealing. More about Ten homes with walk-in wardrobes that store clothes in interesting ways
This week on Dezeen, we showcased a house and restaurant designed by architect Junya Ishigami, which is hidden below ground level in Japan. More about This week we revealed a house hidden underground in Japan
US studio Fuse Architects added cedar cladding, expanded the windows and brightened the interiors of the Plover House on the coast of California. More about Fuse Architects renovates pyramidal 1960s coastal house in California