To continue our quarterly guide to the best architecture and design exhibitions around the world, we've chosen 10 of the best to visit. To find out about industry events taking place in April, May and June, such as Milan design week, look at our comprehensive month-by-month guide. More about Top 10 architecture and design exhibitions: spring 2019
Bioplastic buckets in the shape of mountains will be distributed across 25 UK beaches this summer as part of a participatory art project by artist Katie Paterson. More about Katie Paterson invites UK public to build sand mountains
London designer Adam Nathaniel Furman has created an abstract sculpture that features in a short animation created for UK broadcaster ITV. More about Adam Nathaniel Furman creates 3D-printed totems for ITV ident
Contemporary craft by makers such as Studio Toogood, Max Lamb and Anthony Burrill have been woven into the grand interiors of Harewood House as part of its first craft and design biennial. More about Useful/Beautiful exhibition at Yorkshire stately home asks if craft is still relevant today
Clear Channel and design studio Affairs have created The Emotional Art Gallery which uses the real-time emotions of commuters to replace adverts with artworks. More about Digital billboards in Stockholm project positive artworks to cheer up anxious commuters
Furniture, lamps and jewellery by designers from Norway, which demonstrate sustainable design and the circular economy, will be displayed at an exhibition called Join at this year's Milan design week. More about Circular design to be showcased at Norwegian Presence in Milan
American artist Trevor Paglen has launched the first artwork into space, but it is yet to be activated because of fallout from the US government shutdown. More about Trevor Paglen's art installation in limbo in earth's orbit
French designers Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec have collaborated with Swarovski to design six bronze fountains embellished with over 3,000 crystals on the Avenue de Champs-Elysées in Paris. More about Bouroullec brothers design Paris fountains with 3,060 Swarovski crystals
IKEA worked with UK artists and designers to create this series of animal habitats, repurposed from the company's used furniture. More about IKEA upcycles furniture into colourful Wildhomes for Wildlife
A scale model of a concrete housing complex features alongside architectural photography in this New York exhibition, detailing the works of Polish modernist architect Jadwiga Grabowska-Hawrylak. More about Polish modernist Jadwiga Grabowska-Hawrylak is celebrated in Manhattan retrospective
Finnish artists Pekka Niittyvirta and Timo Aho have shone three lines of light across a Scottish coastal town in this installation that aims to show the impact of climate change. More about Lines light installation demonstrates the "catastrophic impact" of rising sea-levels
British designer Lee Broom has opened an exhibition of his work called Park Life, in a car park beneath the Space Furniture showroom in Sydney. More about Lee Broom presents over 100 lights with exhibition in a Sydney underground car park
Mexican contemporary artist Bosco Sodi has handmade thousands of bricks and built them into this symmetrical set of 64 cubes on a beachfront site near to Tadao Ando's Casa Wabi in Oaxaca, Mexico. More about Bosco Sodi builds brick Atlantes installation to accompany Tadao Ando's Casa Wabi
Lighting designer Michael Anastassiades has brought together a collection of his work from the past 12 years for the Things That Go Together exhibition at The Nicosia Municipal Arts Centre in his native Cyprus. More about Michael Anastassiades presents his sculptural lighting in retrospective at NiMAC
The Bartlett School of Architecture has created a virtual reality tour of the Lin'an History Museum, designed by Wang Shu and Lu Wenyu's studio, which is yet to open to the public. More about VR film offers preview of Amateur Architecture Studio's Lin'an History Museum
IKEA's research lab Space10 has crafted a miniature wooden village to demonstrate how communities could create their own circular clean energy system. More about Space10's SolarVille project proposes communities generate and share energy
Madrid-based Jorge Penadés tasked 14 international designers with creating objects no larger than a shoe box in this exhibition at Madrid Design Festival. More about Jorge Penadés invites 14 designers to showcase "bold ideas in small boxes"
Doric columns, arches and vaulted ceilings are among the architectural details that Matthew Simmonds has carved from stone in these intricate sculptures. More about Matthew Simmonds explores historic architecture in stone sculptures
Artist Joe Sweeney has installed a phone box on the English coast that invites people to share their feelings about Brexit, in an interactive public artwork called +44. More about Brexit phonebox on Dungeness beach invites the public to "leave a message for Europe"
Barcelona-based designer Guillermo Santomà installed a series of sculptural and "transgressive" structures in the lavish interior of a baroque-style mansion in Madrid. More about Guillermo Santomà inserts sculptures inside 19th-century mansion in Madrid