Amsterdam-based Studio Lentala has designed the Rom & Lupa chairs to improve children's physical and mental health. More about Studio Lentala designs playful children's chairs to "enable active sitting"
Danish toymaker Lego has abandoned its pilot programme to make recycled plastic bricks from discarded bottles after projections suggested that, adopted at scale, the material would ultimately have a higher carbon footprint. More about Lego ditches plans to make bricks from recycled plastic bottles
A 1960s Italian hotel and the historic coastal bulwarks below have been restored by architect Bonaventura Gambardella and interior designer Nikita Bettoni. More about Cliffside hotel on Italy's Amalfi Coast incorporates medieval stone defences
Designer Rio Kobayashi has created a London Design Festival "living room" filled with objects he created with the help of artist and designer friends. More about Rio Kobayashi's first solo show features tuna table and totem speakers
Digitally shrink-wrapped skin, armrests salvaged from parks and "frozen" resin featured in Prototype/In Process, an exhibition of seating presented by virtual magazine Chair of Virtue during London Design Festival. More about Chair of Virtue presents experimental seating at London Design Festival
Geodesic domes containing projections of AI-rendered images depicting "ideal eco futures" feature at the Earth Edition exhibition held in California. More about "Solarpunk" installations feature at Earth Edition festival in California
Local architecture studio Dellekamp Schleich has created an office building in Mexico City that it says is the country's largest and tallest mass-timber structure to "set an example for innovative construction methods". More about Dellekamp Schleich uses trusses for "Mexico's largest mass-timber building"
Dezeen School Shows: a sustainable housing scheme designed to accommodate unconventional family structures is included in Dezeen's latest school show by students at Washington University in St Louis. More about Ten architecture projects by students at Washington University in St Louis
Promotion: Italian wellness brand Effe has launched a number of new saunas for 2023, including the Aladdin sauna and the Natural modular cubicle, which is available as a sauna, hammam or infrared sauna. More about Effe launches two new saunas for the home
Students in the Studio 804 design-build programme at the University of Kansas took cues from farmstead vernacular to create a primary home and accessory dwelling unit called 722 Ash Street. More about Studio 804 completes gabled Kansas home with ADU
Dezeen Showroom: a selection of brands based in Thailand have listed their furniture and accessories on Dezeen Showroom, including chairs that celebrate both Thai craft and native timber. More about Thai Trade presents six award-winning furniture designs
Architecture studio Core Design Workshop has remodelled a 1980s home outside Kuala Lumpur called Introverse, transforming its compartmentalised interiors into a large garden room. More about Core Design Workshop organises "introverted" Malaysian home around large garden
L'Arc de Triomphe Wrapped, artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude's last work, is being recycled by Parley for the Oceans, which will turn it into tents and sun shades for use during the 2024 Olympics and other events in Paris. More about Parley for the Oceans to recycle Christo and Jeanne-Claude's L'Arc de Triomphe Wrapped
Costume designer Ane Crabtree drew on the style of New York City's Washington Heights neighbourhood and created a coat to function as "a house that you wear on the street" for Apple TV+ series The Changeling, she tells Dezeen in this interview. More about Ane Crabtree designs The Changeling costumes as a "respectful nod to Black history"
Designer Giles Tettey Nartey has presented a communal bench as part of a POOR Collective exhibition at the London Design Festival, with an intricately carved surface that doubles as a game board. More about Giles Tettey Nartey reimagines traditional West African bench as giant game of Oware
Dezeen Showroom: a collection of storage informed by the colourful and bold designs of the postmodernism movement is among six new products featured on Dezeen Showroom. More about Linea range by Porro among six new products on Dezeen Showroom
Dezeen Jobs turns 15 this year and to mark the occasion, we've interviewed architecture and design studios that have advertised with us about where they currently stand on recruitment. More about Dezeen Jobs: How We Recruit presents a series of interviews exploring the future of recruitment
Parisian fashion brand Coperni has collaborated with Swiss furniture company USM Haller to create its first-ever boutique, a shop-in-shop at French department store Printemps Haussmann. More about USM Haller creates "techno-chic" Coperni retail space at Parisian shop-in-shop
Rounded columns "simulate elements washed by the sea" at this beach house on Mexico's Pacific Coast, designed by César Béjar Studio and Fernando Sánchez Zepeda. More about Casa Los Tigres is a minimalist residence in Mexico
Architecture practice Studio Bright used patterned breeze blocks to wrap Garden Tower House, an extension in Australia, which peeks out from behind the restored frontage of a workers' cottage. More about Studio Bright wraps extension in Australia with pale pink breeze blocks