Finnish furniture brand Basta (above), Danish manufacturer Verpan and Australian brand Tsar Carpets are among brands showcasing products on Dezeen Showroom this week. More about Basta, Verpan and Tsar Carpets showcase products on Dezeen Showroom
Climate action group ACAN has called on architects at Foster + Partners and Zaha Hadid Architects to take "meaningful action outside of your employment" amid an escalating row over airport projects. More about UK architects feud over airport projects as Architects Climate Action Network urges staff to take action
Continuing our review of 2020, we've selected 10 of the most charmingly unusual furniture designs from the past year, from a futuristic birthing chair to sagging shelves made of foam. More about Dezeen's top 10 quirky furniture designs of 2020
Multidisciplinary practice Studiomama has completed a colourful overhaul of chef Yotam Ottolenghi's test kitchen in London, creating pops of saffron yellow and raspberry red. More about Studiomama transforms Yotam Ottolenghi's test kitchen into "happy space"
Italian studio Carlo Ratti Associati (CRA) has designed a concept for a compostable marker pen comprising natural fibres and a water-based, edible ink that would break down within six months. More about Carlo Ratti Associati designs "world's first fully compostable marker"
To celebrate the end of Rado Design Week, we are giving readers the chance to win one of the Swiss watch brand's unique new timepieces in a special competition. More about Competition: win a Rado True Square watch by YOY, Formafantasma or Tej Chauhan
Dutch design platform Droog has launched Le Freak, a mask that uses colourful tassels to express personality. More about Droog presents the face mask as a flirtatious fashion statement
Peter Pichler Architecture takes visual cues from agricultural architecture and traditional farming equipment to design the Hotel Milla Montis in South Tyrol, Italy. More about Peter Pichler draws on agricultural vernacular for Italian Alpine hotel
New York designer Brecht Wright Gander has created a light that is switched on by sliding a phallic conductor inside of a puckered, rubber opening, in the hopes of maximising the user's feelings of discomfort. More about Brecht Wright Gander designs lamp with rubber orifice that lights up when "turned on"
The latest edition of our Dezeen Weekly newsletter features the conversion of an abandoned hospital in western Germany into an office. More about David Chipperfield Architects' abandoned hospital conversion features in today's Dezeen Weekly newsletter
Chicken nuggets that US startup Eat Just created in fermentation tanks will soon be available in a restaurant in Singapore, as the first lab-grown meat in the world to be approved for sale. More about Lab-grown meat to feature on restaurant menu for first time after "breakthrough" approval
UK studio Zaha Hadid Architects has withdrawn from climate action network Architects Declare a day after fellow founding signatory Foster + Partners left the group. More about Zaha Hadid Architects withdraws from Architects Declare
Multidisciplinary studio Neri&Hu has converted an office and staff dormitory building in Shanghai into its own architecture and design offices named No 31. More about Neri&Hu embody ethos of "reflective nostalgia" with own architecture studio in Shanghai
Travel may have come to a standstill this year but we still saw the opening of amazing places to stay – as part of our review of 2020, here are Dezeen's top 10 hotels. More about Dezeen's top 10 hotels of 2020
Dezeen spoke to artists Thukral and Tagra about their upcoming design for Swiss watch brand Rado in the final live panel discussion as part of Rado Design Week. More about Watch our talk with Thukral and Tagra for Rado Design Week
Architects Miranda MacLaren, Polina Pencheva and Heather Macey have created a film titled We Are Not Bad Kids to highlight the need to introduce design guidelines and regulations for homeless accommodation. More about UK architects create film to highlight lack of homeless accommodation design guidance
Swiss firm Herzog & de Meuron has created a boutique hotel inside a century-old building in the heart of its home city, Basel. More about Herzog & de Meuron creates boutique hotel in historic Volkshaus Basel
Thukral and Tagra are the last creatives to be featured as part of Rado Design Week. In this exclusive video, the Indian artists explain the unique features of their upcoming True Square watch for Swiss brand Rado. More about Thukral and Tagra's upcoming watch for Rado will "bring something unique to the experience of reading time"
Scottish designer Phoenix Instinct has developed a lightweight wheelchair with a movable axle position that automatically adjusts the chair's centre of gravity to stop overbalancing. More about Phoenix Instinct creates smart wheelchair with "intelligent centre of gravity"
Together with Cassion Castle Architects, London studio Pearson Lloyd has designed and retrofitted a Victorian workshop to house its own studio as well as workshops, meeting rooms and an exhibition space. More about Pearson Lloyd unveils own east London studio designed with Cassion Castle Architects