Trompe l'oeil illusions from the renaissance era influenced the design of this ceiling installation by American studio FreelandBuck, now on view in a Smithsonian museum in Washington DC. More about FreelandBuck combines historic ceiling designs for Smithsonian museum installation
Arnhem-based designer Richard Vijgen has created a colour-changing tapestry from thermochromic yarn that visualises Wi-Fi signals emitted by smart devices. More about Thermochromic tapestry changes colour in response to Wi-Fi signals
Lee Broom has collaborated with glassware brand Nude to create a 10-metre-tall Christmas tree made of 245 individual hand-blown glass pendant lights inside The Shard in London. More about Lee Broom creates Christmas tree from 245 pendant lights inside The Shard
Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Fujita Keisuke has made an installation that uses real-time tweets from people expressing suicidal thoughts to activate a motor-powered needle that scratches away at a monolithic block of carbon. More about Fujita Keisuke uses suicide tweets to explore the effects of digital communication
Dutch designer Britt Berden has created a pair of models that show what happens when scientists try to counter global warming. More about Britt Berden uses laboratory equipment to visualise the impact of climate engineering
New York designer Dror Benshetrit has created a geometric sculpture at Brancott Estate's Marlborough vineyards in New Zealand, which matches a wine rack he has developed for the brand. More about Studio Dror installs huge wine-rack-shaped sculpture in New Zealand vineyard
Architects Anna and Eugeni Bach are making the Barcelona Pavilion more minimal than ever before – by covering all of its walls with white panels. More about Mies van der Rohe's Barcelona Pavilion loses its marble walls
Architecture studio Penda has created a modular, flexible and reusable building system for MINI Living, featuring a range of living spaces that can be plugged together to form customised micro homes. More about Penda proposes "radical future-living concept" with recyclable modular dwellings
The latest collaboration between fashion brand COS and New York studio Snarkitecture sees a lilac-hued marble run suspended from the ceiling of the Gana Art Gallery in Seoul, South Korea. More about COS and Snarkitecture reveal snaking marble run for Seoul gallery
David Zwirner Gallery is showing concurrent exhibitions of work by Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama, including her iconic fully-mirrored rooms and spotty spaces, in New York's Chelsea. More about Yayoi Kusama's Infinity Mirror Rooms and polka-dot installations come to New York City
Giles Miller suspended 2,000 metallic disks within a wooden lattice to create this light-reflecting sculpture, which was built for this year's Northern Design Festival in Newcastle. More about Giles Miller creates light-reflecting sculpture from 2,000 "pennies"
Swedish furniture company Hem has opened its first US shop in New York City, hoping to tap further into the American market with a pop-up in Soho. More about Hem showcases expanded product line at first US pop-up in New York
Dutch Invertuals has invited 45 of the designers it has worked with over the past nine years to exhibit more than 800 objects from their archives for a show at Dutch Design Week. More about Dutch Invertuals exhibits designers' archives to show process behind products
Visitors to Yayoi Kusama's new exhibition at The Broad are only allowed to spend 30 seconds inside each installation, to prevent selfie-takers causing big queues. More about The Broad imposes 30-second "selfie rule" at Yayoi Kusama exhibition
Dutch studio MVRDV has built a colourful, futuristic hotel, made up of nine rooms that can be moved into different configurations. More about MVRDV presents a hotel you can reconfigure at Dutch Design Week
Finnish architecture firm Casagrande Laboratory designed this self-sufficient prefab house to fit on the footprint of a single car-parking space. More about Casagrande Laboratory designs wooden micro house for city dwellers
To celebrate the Centre Pompidou's 40th anniversary, Paris-based studio GGSV has designed an interactive installation for children in the Galerie des Enfants exhibition space. More about Centre Pompidou's kids' installation mixes pattern, colour and inflatables
After being rejected by the Louvre, Atelier van Lieshout's controversial sculpture resembling a man penetrating an animal has been given a new public exhibition space, at Paris' Centre Pompidou – prompting one critic to describe it as "nasty public art". More about Centre Pompidou presents Atelier van Lieshout sculpture that was too lewd for Louvre
Japanese-Mexican sculptor Kiyoto Ota has built three wooden houses designed to make their inhabitants feel vulnerable rather than safe, including one that sucks the air from the interior and another that rains on anyone inside. More about Kiyoto Ota's wooden houses punish their occupants
Dutch designer Daan Roosegaarde recently brought his Waterlicht installation to the UK. This captioned movie shows how it uses lighting projections to recreate the visual sensation of a flood, to raise awareness about rising sea levels. More about Studio Roosegaarde uses light projections to create virtual flood above Derbyshire valley