Researchers from Swiss design school ÉCAL have unveiled a range of flat-pack furniture at Milan design week that needs to be soaked in water to reach its final form. More about ÉCAL's grow-at-home sponge furniture expands to ten times its size
Dezeen has teamed up with DesignMarch to livestream a day of talks exploring the role of architecture and design in addressing global imbalances. Watch the second session here from midday uk time. More about Watch the second session of DesignMarch's talks exploring how design can dismantle cultural barriers
In this week's comments update, readers are discussing a skinny house with exposed concrete walls in Japan, designed by local studio IGArchitects. More about "Doing more with less is always commendable" says commenter
An experimental pop-up at Milan design week offered visitors free haircuts, then turned the harvested hair into textile artworks and clothing. More about Nieuwe Instituut's New Store 2.0 turns free haircuts into textiles in Milan
Dezeen has teamed up with DesignMarch to livestream a day of talks focusing on the role of architecture and design in addressing global imbalances. Watch the first session here from 10am. More about Watch the first session of DesignMarch's talks on architecture's role in community empowerment
Dropcity, an upcoming urban centre for architecture and design, let visitors see the reconstruction of its historic tunnels alongside a series of installations during this year's Milan design week. More about Dropcity In Progress showcases live reconstruction of historic tunnels
American firm Lake Flato Architects has completed a family retreat on Long Island that consists of three barn-like structures wrapped in cedar and constructed using prefabricated timber elements. More about Lake Flato Architects looks to barns for design of North Fork house
The latest edition of our Dezeen Debate newsletter features a family home in the South Downs National Park by Sandel Rendel Architects. Subscribe to Dezeen Debate now. More about Dezeen Debate features "a peaceful place to live a peaceful life"
LA-based design studio Do Lab has created a series of fabric "mushrooms" to cover the audience and performers for one of the stages at this year's Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival. More about Do Lab creates sprawling fabric "mushrooms" for Coachella stage
Students at Swiss design school HEAD Genève have created an installation of speculative furniture design depicting a dystopian campsite at Alcova during Milan design week. More about HEAD Genève illustrates post-apocalyptic future with nomadic aluminium furniture
Promotion: British studio Zaha Hadid Design has created an updated version of its sinuous Cove kitchen for Italian brand Boffi's 90th anniversary that offers "the flexibility of a modular system". More about Boffi unveils "evolved" version of Zaha Hadid Design's Cove kitchen
A gridded facade of fibre cement, glass and large blinds defines this house in western Slovakia, designed by local studio Beef Architekti. More about Beef Architekti creates "outdoor rooms" at House of Grid in Slovakia
Kelly Wearstler is often hailed as contemporary interior design's most recognisable name. In this interview, she tells Dezeen about crafting her textured and eclectic style. More about "I think my work stands out because I follow my gut" says Kelly Wearstler
Nendo founder Oki Sato broke two frying pans when creating the heated-up material for his colourful Hana-arashi furniture collection for Paola Lenti, which was shown as part of Milan design week. More about Oki Sato "used twenty years' worth of colours" in Hana-arashi collection
Architect Peter Markos has designed the Monocoque Cabin, an off-grid timber cabin defined by an organic, cocoon-like form, on a farm in Shropshire, UK. More about Peter Markos models timber Monocoque Cabin on world war two fighter plane
Dezeen has teamed up with DesignMarch to livestream a programme of talks by leading designers exploring the role of architecture and design in addressing global imbalances in the creative industry. More about DesignMarch live talks will focus on the role of design in addressing global imbalances
As numerous architects turn their hands to designing watches, we round up six designed by Pritzker Architecture Prize-winners including Tadao Ando, Frank Gehry and Álvaro Siza. More about Six watches designed by Pritzker Architecture Prize-winning architects
Danish architecture studio BIG, alongside faculty at the University of Kansas, has unveiled its design for the mass-timber Makers' KUbe in Kansas, USA. More about BIG designs all-wood cubic structure as "living curriculum" at University of Kansas
Unprotected modernist houses are at risk of demolition as land often holds greater value than architectural heritage, says conservation group Docomomo US in response to actor Chris Pratt tearing down a home by architect Craig Ellwood. More about Chris Pratt's destruction of Ellwood house in LA symptom of "systemic problems"
UK architecture studio Foster + Partners has unveiled its design for a tiered, 62-storey supertall skyscraper on Park Avenue in New York. More about Foster + Partners designs tiered Park Avenue supertall skyscraper