Italian studio Carlo Ratti Associati and architect Italo Rota have used over 500 metres of copper pipe to create energy-generating sculptures for its Feeling the Energy installation in the Brera botanical garden at Milan design week. More about Carlo Ratti and Italo Rota transform botanical garden in Milan into an "energy park"
Multidisciplinary designer Khaled El Mays has created a surreal psychedelic-style installation at Nilufar Gallery for Milan design week, which features statement modular seating. More about Khaled El Mays places bold modular seating in "psychedelic" installation
Fashion brand Hermès has built four large structures modelled on water towers and covered in translucent sheets of coloured paper inside events space La Pelota at Milan design week. More about Hermès creates "monumental" water tower structures that glow like lanterns
The Tree of Trees installation for the Platinum Jubilee is just the latest project by British designer Thomas Heatherwick to trigger controversy. Here are eight of his most divisive projects. More about Eight of Thomas Heatherwick's most controversial projects
British designer Tom Dixon has unveiled Twenty at Milan design week, an exhibition exploring two decades of his work that includes a chair made from eelgrass and furniture that has been "grown" underwater. More about Tom Dixon's 20th-anniversary exhibition features underwater furniture and mycelium towers
Film director Luca Guadagnino has unveiled his first interior design exhibition, featuring intricate wooden panelling, geometric stone tables and a multicoloured fireplace. More about Luca Guadagnino brings cinematic style to two matching living rooms in Milan
Designer Daniel Arsham has collaborated with bathroom and kitchen brand Kohler to create a walkable interpretation of a "sink" at a Baroque palace during Milan design week. More about Daniel Arsham creates Divided Layers gateway at Milan design week
French designers Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec have created Sosei, an installation of pastel-coloured ceramic sculptures that is currently on show at Milan design week. More about Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec design sculptural ceramic installation for Tajimi Custom Tiles
Industrial design students from Muthesius University in Kiel, Germany, have created ten inflatable products including a transparent suitcase and a blow-up seat for an installation called Air Supply at Milan design week. More about Industrial design students create inflatable products using air as their "main material"
British designer Lee Broom has unveiled his largest exhibition at Milan design week to date, showcasing six new lighting designs in a setting that echoes brutalist architecture and places of worship. More about Lee Broom presents Divine Inspiration lighting in theatrical Milan exhibition
Dutch architecture studio MVRDV has opened Rotterdam Rooftop Walk, a temporary bright orange rooftop installation in Rotterdam that crosses the rooflines of two adjacent buildings. More about MVRDV creates 600-metre-long orange walkway that bridges Rotterdam roofs
As Milan design week returns for its first full-scale event since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, we pick this year's must-see shows and installations, from a feminist exhibition to an installation by an Academy Award-nominated director. More about Twelve unmissable exhibitions and installations at Milan design week
Twenty designers have responded to centuries of souvenirs collected by the inhabitants of an Austrian castle in the exhibition East to West at Schloss Hollenegg, which explores the distances and intersections between cultures. More about Journey of Asian objects explored in Schloss Hollenegg castle exhibition
Designer Anna Resei has created a conceptual design for a modular structure that can be used as a moveable shelter, which was shown as part of this year's Southern Sweden Design Days. More about Anna Resei designs Tele-nomadic Sheltering Unit as a moveable urban dwelling
Roofs made from living trees and floating houses on reed islands are among the urban planning concepts developed by engineering studio Buro Happold in collaboration with Indigenous communities as part of an installation called Symbiocene. More about Buro Happold works with indigenous builders to develop climate resilience strategies for cities
Melanin-enriched building materials and decomposing pavilions are among the pieces on show in San Francisco Museum of Modern Art's exhibition of Neri Oxman's work, Nature x Humanity. Curator Jennifer Dunlop Fletcher discusses five key works. More about SFMOMA exhibition explores the architectural provocations of Neri Oxman
In this exclusive video produced by Dezeen, artist collective Drift talks about its recent drone installation above the Elbphilharmonie concert hall in Hamburg. More about Technology behind Drift's new drone installation "comes close to magic"
French fashion designer Simon Jacquemus has opened a series of surrealist pop-up installations at London department store Selfridges, including a luxury-bag vending machine and a swimming-pool changing room. More about Jacquemus creates surrealist interpretation of his own bathroom for Selfridges pop-up
American studio CLB Architects has created a circular wood-and-steel "chapel" in New York City's Times Square to mark the return of the city's annual NYCxDesign festival. More about CLB places steel "chapel" in Times Square for NYCxDesign
Mexican gallery Masa's Intervención/Intersección exhibition showcases pieces by artists and designers including Frida Escobedo and Isamu Noguchi in a former post office in the Rockefeller Center in Manhattan. More about Masa gallery's first New York exhibition features work by Frida Escobedo