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
Dezeen School Shows: a digital experience that lets users explore historical architecture and a project that aims to reestablish connections that were lost due to Covid-19 feature in Dezeen's latest school show by Pratt Institute of Design. More about Ten design projects from Pratt Institute School of Design
The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art has released images of its MAD-designed home under construction in Los Angeles and announced an opening date of 2025. More about Photos reveal MAD's "iconic" Lucas Museum under construction in Los Angeles
Dezeen Showroom: Italian company Marazzi has presented a wide range of tiles on Dezeen Showroom, including tiles that reference traditional Italian ceramics and building materials. More about A wide variety of tiles from Marazzi feature on Dezeen Showroom
Indonesian studio RAW Architecture used bamboo for the structure, interior walls, decorative carvings and door handles, at this home and community space in West Java. More about RAW Architecture celebrates bamboo's versatility at home and community centre in Indonesia
British designer Es Devlin has created Come Home Again, an illuminated dome illustrated with her own pencil drawings of the 243 flora and fauna species on London's priority conservation list. More about Es Devlin unveils cathedral-like sculpture to highlight London's endangered species
The United Nations has written a set of "principles for sustainable and inclusive urban design and architecture" for architects to sign up to called the San Marino Declaration, which architect Norman Foster is set to launch ahead of COP27. More about Norman Foster to launch UN sustainability declaration for architects