A group of design graduates from London's Royal College of Art have come up with a way to make RFID tags entirely from paper, with no metal or silicon components in a bid to cut down on waste from single-use electronics. More about PulpaTronics tackles single-use electronics with paper RFID tags
Architecture studio BIG has announced the completion of The Spiral, the studio's first supertall skyscraper and first commercial high-rise in New York City that features a "ziggurat silhouette". More about BIG's first supertall skyscraper reaches completion in New York
The latest edition of our weekly Dezeen Agenda newsletter features designs for residential skyscrapers in Vancouver, Canada. Subscribe to Dezeen Agenda now. More about Dezeen Agenda features skyscrapers planned for indigenous land
New York architecture studio REX has completed the "most automated" performance building in the world at Brown University's campus in Providence, Rhode Island. More about REX creates "holy grail" combination of performance spaces in Providence
Bright red curving forms and cubic volumes form Haus 2+, a mixed-use building that architecture studio Office ParkScheerbarth has added to a compact riverside site in Berlin. More about Office ParkScheerbarth adds bright red-timber building to compact Berlin site
Chinese studio Neri&Hu has designed the Sanya Wellness Retreat hotel on the Chinese island of Hainan, with public spaces arranged around a central water courtyard. More about Neri&Hu wraps South China Sea wellness retreat around "water courtyard"
Design student Willem Zwiers has salvaged second-hand books and used them to form a small furniture collection, currently on show at the Design Academy Eindhoven graduate show at Dutch Design Week. More about Willem Zwiers melds second-hand books together to form marbled furniture
Known for a string of boundary-pushing projects, Japanese architect Junya Ishigami discusses his unusual approach to designing buildings in this exclusive interview. More about "I don't want to make crazy buildings" says Junya Ishigami
Rammed earth walls and an organic colour scheme help this South African family lodge designed by architecture practice Studio Asaï to blend into its natural surroundings. More about Tembo Tembo lodge hides among landscape of South African game reserve
German designer Basse Stittgen has developed two methods for transforming lignin, an under-used plant-based polymer, into functional objects. More about Basse Stittgen creates "remade wood" objects using tree-based bioplastic
Mexican architect Frida Escobedo has completed a seaside resort in the Yucatán Peninsula with wooden guest quarters suspended on stilts. More about Frida Escobedo completes treehouse-like resort on the Mexican coast
Local landscape studio Field Operations has opened a swath of land in Staten Island's Freshkills Park, which was once home to the world's largest landfill. More about Field Operations converts restored Staten Island landfill into wetland park
Dezeen School Shows: a theatre with an inflatable facade that changes shape with the audience's breathing is included in this school show by Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute students. More about Ten architecture projects by students at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Dutch architecture studio MVRDV has added a stepped roof and bright-coloured boxes to a former museum dedicated to Albanian dictator Enver Hoxha in the centre of Tirana, Albania. More about Pyramid of Tirana officially reopens as "monument for the people"
Rotterdam's Nieuwe Instituut museum is rethinking the archetypal gift shop with a pop-up at Dutch Design Week, designed to encourage more ethical, resource-conscious consumption. More about Customers exchange urine for soap at Nieuwe Instituut pop-up shop
Dezeen Showroom: Lithuania-based international office furniture manufacturer Narbutas has featured a selection of its workplace furnishings on Dezeen Showroom throughout 2023. More about Narbutas lists workplace furniture and storage on Dezeen Showroom
Dutch architecture may be at the forefront of sustainable building practices, but Aaron Betsky feels it has rather lost its sparkle in recent years. More about "Architecture in the Netherlands has become notably boring"
Aiming to bridge the worlds of human and robotic construction, product design engineer Jasper Mallinson has created a wearable CNC machine that he believes could one day be used on worksites to help realise parametric designs. More about British student's wearable CNC machine gives makers "superhuman" abilities
Dezeen Showroom: a collection of textural carpet tiles informed by knitwear is among six new products featured on Dezeen Showroom. More about Desso and Patricia Urquiola carpet tiles by Tarkett among new products on Dezeen Showroom
Promotion: decking and paving company Ryno has released its Vitrified Composite decking boards, which come in a range of wood finishes that are designed to provide an authentic hardwood look and feel. More about Ryno presents composite decking that "actually looks like wood"