Utopia Arkitekter has designed a tent-like shelter that could provide a cosy retreat for trekkers in the mountains. More about Skýli mountain shelter is designed to withstand extreme weather conditions
Dezeen promotion: Astro Lighting has revealed its new collection of architectural LEDs, which are simple and subtle, so that they never overpower a setting. More about Astro's architectural lighting collection lets a building take centre stage
Diébédo Francis Kéré, designer of this year's Serpentine Pavilion, took to the main stage at World Architecture Festival 2017. More about Watch Diébédo Francis Kéré's lecture at World Architecture Festival 2017
More than 150 architects are calling for an independent review into the governance of Scottish architecture's professional body, the RIAS, which is being accused of covering up details of its internal finances. More about Scottish architects call for reform of "increasingly secretive and autocratic" RIAS
Architects Alison Brooks and Jacob Kurek spoke on the theme of performance spaces in the second talk Dezeen streamed from World Architecture Festival 2017 in Berlin. More about Watch Alison Brooks and Jacob Kurek discuss performance spaces at World Architecture Festival 2017
Architect Rafael Viñoly discussed the concept of performance in architecture in the opening keynote seminar at World Architecture Festival 2017 in Berlin. More about Watch Rafael Viñoly's keynote presentation at World Architecture Festival 2017
Architect Ole Scheeren has unveiled plans to build a 333-metre-high skyscraper in Vietnam's largest city, which will mimic the topography of the country's natural landscape. More about Ole Scheeren references mountain landscapes in design for Vietnam skyscraper
Dutch designer Ermi van Oers has created a lamp that uses a living plant to generate its own electricity – and plans to scale up the technology to power entire smart cities. More about Living Light is an off-grid lamp powered by photosynthesis
This music studio in the garden of a home in Newcastle, New South Wales, is entered via a house-shaped porch that doubles as an outdoor recital space. More about M3 Architecture adds music studio with its own stage to garden of Australian residence
Serbian artist Marina Abramovic has abandoned plans for OMA to turn a former theatre in Upstate New York into an arts institute in her name, after failing to raise enough funding. More about Marina Abramovic cancels OMA's theatre conversion in Upstate New York
Mexican firm Desnivel Arquitectos has completed a residence that includes a large living area with no walls, and a covered walkway that overlooks a lush garden and a swimming pool. More about Steel colonnades create sheltered outdoor spaces at Mexican hacienda
New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art will draw connections between religious art and contemporary couture for its next major fashion exhibition, to be designed by architecture firm Diller Scofidio + Renfro. More about Costume Institute's Spring 2018 exhibition to explore fashion and Catholicism
In this week's comments update, an opinion piece arguing against the homogenisation of shop signs on a northeast London high street started a debate among readers around aspirational politics and gentrification. More about "It's like walking through some bizarre toy village"
Dezeen promotion: Czech brand Bomma reveals the glass-making techniques behind its lighting products, in these two short films produced by director Petr Krejci. More about Bomma showcases glass-blowing techniques used to create its sculptural lighting pendants
IKEA's external innovation lab Space10 has created an online platform for researching and developing concepts for future shared living spaces. More about IKEA lab Space10 launches website to "revamp" co-living for 2030
CO Architects and Ayers Saint Gross have completed a copper-clad laboratory complex in downtown Phoenix that evokes jagged and striated rock formations found in the American Southwest. More about Sculptural Arizona research building takes cues from desert topography
MAD has built a cluster of housing towers in China's Anhui province, which take their forms from the granite contours of the Huangshan mountain range. More about MAD's Huangshan Mountain Village mimics the topography of a rocky Chinese landscape
Universal Design Studio's Hannah Carter Owers explains how her team transformed a brutalist bank headquarters into an art-filled hotel, in this movie filmed ahead of the AHEAD Europe hospitality awards. More about At Six was designed to be Scandinavia's best luxury hotel, says Universal Design Studio
Japanese studio Snark Architectures has renovated an apartment at the base of a mountain outside Tokyo, taking cues from the design of traditional cabins to create a wood-lined home for a couple who enjoy climbing and trekking. More about Snark Architectures borrows cabin aesthetic for apartment renovation near Mount Takao
A photography exhibition has opened, showcasing the desks of London creatives including architect Nicholas Grimshaw, designer Luke Pearson and Serpentine Galleries CEO Yana Peel. More about Workspaces of Nicholas Grimshaw, Luke Pearson and more revealed in photography series