This week, we've updated our kitchens Pinterest board with images showcasing colourful and unusual designs. Follow Dezeen on Pinterest or visit our updated board to see more. More about Browse colourful kitchen designs on this week's Pinterest board
Studio Drift has created Ego, a kinetic sculpture made of 10 miles of ultra-fine nylon, for the Dutch National Touring Opera's production of L'Orfeo. More about Studio Drift creates dramatic shifting Ego sculpture for Dutch opera L'Orfeo
American designer Marc Thorpe has created a simple, off-the-grid dwelling in Upstate New York that is meant to exist "in perfect balance with its environment". More about Edifice by Marc Thorpe is a black off-the-grid cabin in Upstate New York
Visitors are encouraged to touch, swing, stack and reconfigure colourful plush furniture staged throughout this installation, which Fort Makers designed to harness the "power of play" in its New York gallery. More about Painted canvas and padded furniture cover Fort Makers gallery for Puffy exhibit
Dutch studio Shift Architecture Urbanism has extended the Oude Dijk monastery in Tilburg with a brick extension with a nursing home and apartments for its residents, the Sisters of Charity. More about Shift Architecture Urbanism adapts historic Dutch monastery for ageing residents
Ace Hotel has revealed the first photos of its new venue in Kyoto, designed by Japanese architect Kengo Kuma and Los Angeles-based design studio Commune. More about Ace Hotel Kyoto reveals interiors designed by Kengo Kuma and Commune
This week on Dezeen, we reported from Sweden on the best installations, product launches and events at Stockholm Design Week 2020, where environmental concerns were top of the agenda. More about This week, Scandinavian designers tackled carbon emissions at Stockholm Design Week
Industrial designer Lewis Power has won this year's rising star award at Stockholm Furniture & Light Fair, with a series of four objects born from an exploration of "material worth". More about Lewis Power's debut collection explores materials "owning" the objects
Norwegian urban furniture brand Vestre has won the best stand award at Stockholm Furniture & Light Fair for an installation featuring re-usable materials and information about the carbon footprint of every product. More about Note Design Studio's re-usable stand for Vestre explains the carbon emissions of each product
Medieval castles and industrial buildings influenced the design of this multi-storey California home by Kristen Becker of architecture firm Mutuus Studio, which is intended to have "a modest footprint". More about Hollywood Hills House by Kristen Becker steps down a steep Los Angeles hillside
British artist Antony Gormley has created an installation in New York's Brooklyn Bridge Park comprising 18 kilometres of wound aluminium tubing. More about Antony Gormley installs "drawing in space" on Brooklyn pier
Swedish design studio Form Us With Love has unveiled Forgo, a mix-it-yourself cosmetics brand that minimises carbon emissions and avoids plastic packaging. More about Form Us With Love launches Forgo soap brand in response to "extremely wasteful" cosmetics industry
Nike used factory scraps and recycled "space waste yarn" to create the Space Hippie sneakers in an experimental project to reduce the carbon impact of its products. More about Nike designs Space Hippie footwear to have "lowest carbon footprint scores ever"
Architect Roberto Palomba describes his firm's approach to renovating the Palazzo Daniele hotel in Puglia, Italy, in this video produced by Dezeen for the AHEAD awards. More about Palazzo Daniele is a "contemporary place with an ancient structure"
Swedish architecture firm White Arkitekter has pledged that every building it designs will be carbon neutral by 2030. More about Achieving zero-carbon architecture is "the biggest challenge we have" says Alexandra Hagen of White Arkitekter
PRTZN Architecture has used upholstered foam blocks to transform a tiny room in a Hungarian church into a children's playroom. More about Red foam blocks turn cramped church room into a play space for kids
British design brand Established & Sons and design studio Committee have released new versions of their Kebab Lamps, featuring miscellaneous found objects skewered on a central pole. More about Kebab Lamps by Committee and Established & Sons re-released
Architecture studio Space Encounters built a tile-clad office building on stilts in Amersfoort, the Netherlands, above an existing brick warehouse. More about Space Encounters puts office building on stilts above brick warehouse
A draft order by Donald Trump to make all new federal buildings classical is the latest example of how traditional architecture is used to disguise racist agendas, says Phineas Harper. More about "Traditional architecture has frequently been leveraged to support violent political agendas"
Working on tourism projects in Brazil could help alleviate poverty and reduce destruction of the rainforests, according to BIG partner Kai-Uwe Bergmann. More about "We have the same opinions about Trump as we do Bolsonaro," says BIG's Kai-Uwe Bergmann