Two weeks after a giant explosion destroyed large parts of Beirut, architects and designers are pondering how to rebuild their lives and businesses, with some considering leaving the city for good. More about Beiruti architects and designers assess damage to their "shattered" businesses after devastating explosion
Spanish artist SiiGii has designed a wearable, inflatable lilo from latex that enables users to lounge on a pool float in the summer without aggravating their allergy to the sun. More about SiiGii designs wearable inflatable latex float for people with sun allergy
The president and CEO of Autodesk has responded to criticisms of its Revit software, admitting improvements "didn't progress as quickly" as they should have but rejecting claims it is too expensive. More about Revit software costs "reasonable" says Autodesk president and CEO Andrew Anagnost
Dutch company GreenPee has installed eight hemp-filled sustainable urinals in Amsterdam to combat an increase in people urinating in the streets after the coronavirus lockdown ended. More about GreenPee installs hemp urinals in Amsterdam to stop "wild peeing"
Dorte Mandrup has revealed visuals of a museum in Berlin that will create a backdrop to the ruins of Anhalter Bahnhof station and tell stories of the people who fled the Nazi regime. More about Dorte Mandrup's Exilmuseum Berlin will facilitate "understanding of exile"
Craggy rock walls and a hot-spring style bathtub would feature in this imaginary Odesa hotel room that interior design studio Sivak & Partners has envisioned in a series of renderings. More about Sivak & Partners imagines contemporary beachside guest suite in Odesa
Italian lighting brand Artemide has developed a way of turning lamps into room sanitisers that emit antiviral ultraviolet light when people are not around. More about Artemide unveils Integralis ultraviolet technology that transforms lights into sanitisers
Slender grey brick walls protrude from the front of fine arts museum Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts Lausanne, which Barcelona studio Barozzi Veiga created in the Lausanne city centre. More about Barozzi Veiga designs Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts Lausanne with ridged brick facade
Architecture studio OA+ has threaded a path through this adobe brick and wood house in Envigado, Colombia that leads from its entrance to woodland at the rear. More about Casa Carmen's green roofs merge with hill and forest in Colombian neighbourhood
Latin American architecture firm Gómez Platero has unveiled a design for a circular monument in Uruguay to remember coronavirus victims. More about Gómez Platero designs World Memorial to the Pandemic for Uruguayan coast
James Dyson and his wife Deirdre are to open their private art collection to the public in a gallery that WilkinsonEyre's founder, Chris Wilkinson, has designed for their UK home. More about Dyson family to make art collection public in home gallery by Chris Wilkinson
Inflatable latex trousers by Harikrishnan have gone on sale just six months after the designer caused a viral sensation by showing the prototypes at his London College of Fashion graduate show. More about Harikrishnan's blow-up latex trousers go on sale with "do not overinflate" warning
Dutch architecture firm MVRDV has announced its plans to renovate a deteriorating concrete building in Shenzhen, China, to create the If Factory offices and a maze-like roof garden. More about MVRDV to convert disused Shenzhen factory into creative office space
Designers including Adam Nathaniel Furman, Richard Hutten and Paola Navone have created seven laminated furniture designs for Italian brand De Rosso that reimagine both archival pieces and previously unpublished works. More about Designers draw on Memphis and pop art movements to reinterpret De Rosso furniture
Sailing and nautical aesthetics informed CL3's interiors for the Intercontinental hotel in the Raffles City Chongqing complex in China, which includes guest rooms that draw on the design of yacht cabins. More about CL3 unveils interior design for Intercontinental Chongqing Raffles City
Central Saint Martins student Jiyong Kim has used sunlight, rather than traditional printing or dying processes, to create the organic, flowing patterns that grace his graduate menswear collection. More about Jiyong Kim bleaches reclaimed textiles with months of sun exposure for graduate collection
A maze of board-marked concrete walls encloses this public toilet in Tokyo, which interior design studio Wonderwall created for the Tokyo Toilet project and modelled on prehistoric Japanese architecture. More about Concrete Tokyo toilet by Wonderwall references primitive Japanese huts
New York architecture studio Worrell Yeung has transformed historic factory buildings near Brooklyn Navy Yard into multi-use workspaces and artist studios featuring time-worn brick walls and weathered beams and columns. More about Worrell Yeung designs industrial artist studios in historic Brooklyn factory buildings
In this week's comments update, readers are impressed by Foster + Partners' latest Apple Store and sharing their views on other top stories. More about "Foster must keep the A-team for its Apple store designs" say commenters
Architecture firms Snøhetta, Studio Gang and Henning Larsen have unveiled proposals competing for the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library in Medora, North Dakota, with designs that draw on the surrounding, rugged Badlands. More about Snøhetta, Studio Gang and Henning Larsen unveil designs for Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library