Japanese art collective TeamLab has created a site-specific digital installation of water moving towards a vortex, on the inside of a domed roof in the new Amos Rex museum in Helsinki. More about TeamLab creates virtual vortex as inaugural installation for Helsinki's Amos Rex gallery
New York-based design studio Snarkitecture has created a surreal interactive playground, filled with hundreds of giant bouncy balls, by the water in Hong Kong's Harbour City shopping district. More about Snarkitecture creates giant bouncy ball playground on Hong Kong's waterfront
A whimsical park-like exhibition curated by Japanese designer Mikiya Kobayashi featured five fabric-covered playground pieces. More about Adults and children encouraged to play in Mikiya Kobayashi's whimsical park
Instagram sensation The Color Factory has arrived in New York City, where visitors can interact with a myriad of tonal installations and take photos in a giant blue ball pit. More about The Color Factory brings spectrum of camera-ready artworks to NYC
A group of artists in Taiwan have transformed a 10-metre-tall brutalist concrete loudspeaker, formerly used to broadcast anti-communist propaganda to China, into an art installation. More about Giant concrete anti-communist speaker reimagined as sound installation
Burberry's signature tartan is cast in resin panels to form backdrops for displays at Opening Ceremony stores, created by Dutch designer Sabine Marcelis. More about Burberry plaid cast as resin for Opening Ceremony displays by Sabine Marcelis
Matt Clark of United Visual Artists explains how the installation he created for MINI's Brooklyn creative workspace A/D/O, is designed to reflect human experiences of the city, in a movie produced by Dezeen for MINI. More about Spirit of the City at A/D/O "designed for people to lose themselves in" says United Visual Artists
Riccardo Blumer Atelier worked with a team of students to create this machine on show at the Venice Architecture Biennale, which is programmed to build and repair an 11-metre-long bubble wall. More about Automated machine by Riccardo Blumer Atelier builds a wall out of soap bubbles
Fuzzy sushi rolls and cuddly avocados feature in this supermarket installation by British artist Lucy Sparrow, which contains over 31,000 felt grocery staples. More about Lucy Sparrow stocks up LA supermarket with 31,000 felt groceries
Es Devlin will add a fifth lion to Trafalgar Square for this year's London Design Festival, featuring a fluorescent coat and a mouth that continuously spouts out poetry. More about Es Devlin to install poetry-spouting lion in London's Trafalgar Square
In the first of two exclusive video interviews with Christo, the artist explains how the giant London Mastaba installation on the Serpentine lake is the culmination of over 60 years of working with stacked barrels. More about "I was so poor and I had no studio" says Christo. "I started working with little tin cans of paint"
Architecture studio MAD has created five installations inside the Kiyotsu Gorge Tunnel, a mountain viewpoint in Japan's Niigata Prefecture, including a lake framed by mirrors and a foot bath in a wooden dome. More about MAD transforms Japanese mountain tunnel by adding mirrors, a spa and a lake
Remote-controlled ceramic models of military vehicles by Bezalel Academy graduate Oz Biri aim to open discourse on the "absurdity" of war. More about Oz Biri's ceramic military vehicles symbolise "fragility of life"
A huge balloon controlled by brain waves will fly around the atrium of the Design Museum during this year's London Design Festival. More about Loop.pH to install "mind-powered airship" in Design Museum atrium
The walls of a soon-to-be-demolished office building in Kent, England, appear to have been zipped open in this installation by artist Alex Chinneck. More about Alex Chinneck unzips the walls of a condemned office building
Russian artist Alexander Shtanuk has launched a crowdfunding campaign to turn NASA's metallic emergency blankets into an enormous artwork at this year's Burning Man festival. More about Massive NASA space blanket proposed as billowing Burning Man installation
London-based practice Studio Mutt has revealed illustrations of four architectural characters that will inhabit the Sir John Soane's Museum as part of this year's London Design Festival. More about Studio Mutt designs four fictional characters to inhabit Sir John Soane's Museum
Belgium's Venice Biennale pavilion is being used as a forum for debate about the future of Europe, in a bid to prevent the continent becoming further divided. More about Belgian Pavilion promotes a "more interesting" Europe to counter rising nationalism
Yves Klein's electric blue artworks add a touch of avant-garde to the baroque interiors of Blenheim Palace, England, in an exhibition featuring over 50 of the French artist's works. More about Yves Klein's ultramarine artworks animate 18th century interiors of Blenheim Palace
Architects and designers can take an activist approach to instigate social change, according to participants in this year's Beirut Design Week. More about Beirut-based designers advocate new uses for the city's overlooked public spaces