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
Conrad Willems' architectural sculptures based on toy blocks feature in a solo exhibition inside a Victor Bourgeois modernist villa in Brussels. More about Conrad Willems creates modular stone structures based on children’s building blocks
Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama has scattered mirrored balls inside a hurricane-damaged train garage on New York's Rockaway Peninsula, as the latest instalment in her 52-year-old Narcissus Garden series. More about Yayoi Kusama fills abandoned garage in New York's Rockaways with 1,500 mirrored balls
The latest sculpture at the annual Goodwood Festival of Speed features six Porsche cars attached to a 52-metre-high star-shaped white structure. More about Goodwood Festival of Speed sculpture by Gerry Judah celebrates 70 years of Porsche production
Minnesota studio Dream The Combine has constructed a series of black steel frames that accommodate net hammocks, mirrors and misters, providing a setting for MoMA PS1's summer music series. More about Dream The Combine installs elevated runway and pivoting mirrors at MoMA PS1 courtyard
Six colourful sculptures that swallow, modify and regurgitate sounds have been installed at the High Museum of Art Atlanta, as part of an installation by Japanese artist Yuri Suzuki. More about Yuri Suzuki installs six colourful sound-modifying sculptures in Atlanta
London mayor Sadiq Khan has approved the flight of a six-metre-high blimp, which depicts Donald Trump as a cartoon baby, over the Houses of Parliament during the American president's visit to the UK this week. More about London mayor approves flight of Trump Baby blimp over London
Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Elisa Otañez has created a bight yellow, mobile toilet as a protest against the lack of public facilities for women in The Netherlands. More about Yellow Spot is a portable protest toilet for women
This captioned movie shows an installation by Japanese artist Atsuko Mochida, who has cut a volume out of an abandoned house and rebuilt it on top of a revolving platform. More about Atsuko Mochida creates revolving floor and walls in abandoned house
New York design studio Snarkitecture is celebrating a decade of projects with an exhibition at the National Building Museum in Washington DC, which includes a white gabled house and a kidney-shaped ball pit. More about Snarkitecture builds white Fun House for retrospective in Washington DC
BIG architects Bjarke Ingels and Jakob Lange have launched a money-raising campaign to install a huge, inflatable mirrored sphere at this year's Burning Man festival, and are offering "juicy perks" in return for donations. More about Bjarke Ingels and Jakob Lange crowdfund for huge mirrored sphere at Burning Man
A sea of beckoning cats feature in this installation by Central Saint Martins graduate Katie May Boyd. More about Katie May Boyd's installation turns plastic waste into beckoning cats
Central Saint Martins graduate Ching-Hui Yang has created a series of brass tools that aim to encourage muscle memory to help train dancers. More about Ching-Hui Yang creates dance training device that imitates muscle memory
An exhibition celebrating the collaboration between Gucci and Icelandic musician Björk has opened in the Gucci Garden museum in Florence. More about Gucci Garden exhibition features Björk's dresses
Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec have added a marble water feature and circular steel bench to Vitra's campus-like headquarters in Weil am Rhein, southern Germany. More about Bouroullec brothers create minimalist outdoor installation on Vitra Campus
Björk looked to classic Icelandic paintings and summer nights when designing the sets and costumes for her Utopia world tour, she explains in an exclusive interview with Dezeen. More about Björk explains designs of "magically utopian" sets and costumes
Christo has completed The London Mastaba, a 20-metre-high sculpture floating on London's Serpentine Lake, which represents his and late wife Jeanne-Claude's determination to make art free. More about Christo unveils floating Serpentine sculpture made from 7,506 barrels
Los Angeles architecture firm FreelandBuck has added a volume covered in bold graphics to the latest edition of the MINI Living Urban Cabin, a prototype micro home installed on a rooftop in the city's Downtown area. More about MINI Living Urban Cabin for LA features central intervention by FreelandBuck
Kengo Kuma and Daan Roosegaarde are among the architects and designers presenting proposals to tackle air pollution, in this movie Dezeen filmed for Dassault Systèmes. More about Dassault Systèmes presents pollution-absorbing architecture by Kengo Kuma and Daan Roosegaarde
This year's Venice Architecture Biennale is bursting with models, including several you can touch or inhabit. Dezeen's social media editor Danil Boparai picks 10 of the best examples. More about 10 Venice Architecture Biennale installations that invite you to interact