Film director David Lynch revealed his furniture design skills at tradeshow Salone del Mobile during Milan design week, where he created a large wooden chair in a room with an ocean-like pattern floor. More about David Lynch designs gigantic wooden chair within meditative A Thinking Room
Dutch beer brand Heineken and US clothing company Bodega have launched The Boring Phone at Milan design week, a dumbphone designed to prevent young adults from scrolling on smartphones. More about Heineken and Bodega unveil nostalgic Boring Phone for Gen Z and Millennials
Arab Design Now and Enzo Mari are among the current design exhibitions taking place across the world featured in Dezeen Events Guide. More about Five art and design exhibitions on Dezeen Events Guide
Burkinabè architect Diébédo Francis Kéré has created a circular pavilion made from spruce logs for German kitchen brand Next125, which is being exhibited at Superstudio for Milan design week. More about Francis Kéré arranges spruce log pavilion around communal kitchen in Milan
Japanese architect Shigeru Ban has created a pavilion from paper tubes, wood and milk crates to mark the 75th anniversary of US architect Philip Johnson's Glass House in Connecticut, USA. More about Shigeru Ban unveils Paper Log House at Philip Johnson's Glass House
Pillowy lamps, daybeds that look like stacked mattresses and rugs featuring abstract renderings of private body parts feature in an exhibition of new launches from Faye Toogood at Milan design week. More about Faye Toogood explores "sexuality and the body" in Rude Arts Club exhibition
Design studio Niceworkshop has created furniture for recycling brand Format made from aluminium formwork used for pouring the concrete on large-scale buildings, which is on show at Milan design week. More about Niceworkshop presents furniture made from reused skyscraper formwork
Google has returned to Milan design week with a kaleidoscopic installation by research studio Chromasonic, designed to simulate the experience of having synesthesia. More about Chromasonic makes "light audible and sound visible" for Google's Milan installation
A fire has broken out at the 17th-century Børsen building in Copenhagen, Denmark, causing its iconic dragon tail-shaped spire to collapse. More about Fire engulfs Copenhagen's old stock exchange causing spire to collapse
Pritzker Architecture Prize-winning architect Eduardo Souto de Moura has designed a watch for LeBond with its face rotated by 30 degrees to optimise viewing. More about Eduardo Souto de Moura creates watch with face rotated "for optimal visibility on the wrist"
The New York Jets NFL team has brought back a jet aircraft to its logo as part of its latest rebrand, which is a nod to its 1980s Sack Exchange era. More about New York Jets reintroduces jet to team logo in nostalgic rebrand
Designer Maria Vittoria Paggini has used colourful wallpaper and murals depicting nude bodies concealed behind peepholes to transform her home for Milan design week. More about Maria Vittoria Paggini gives her home "porno-chic" makeover for Milan design week
From guest rooms filled with fashion designer Christian Louboutin's personal antique collection to Ibiza's oldest hotel where handmade masks are mounted on the walls, our latest lookbook features eight eclectic hotel interiors. More about Eight hotel interiors characterised by eclectic designs
Creative agency Uncommon Creative Studio has made "boring" versions of UK landmarks including Buckingham Palace and Edinburgh Castle for Thomas Heatherwick's Humanise campaign. More about Thomas Heatherwick's Humanise campaign creates "boring alter-egos" of UK landmarks
This Dezeen video shows the restoration progress of Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris, including its reconstructed spire that is crowned by a golden rooster. More about Dezeen video captures reconstructed spire at Notre-Dame
Ghanaian artist Ibrahim Mahama collaborated with hundreds of craftspeople to create Purple Hibiscus, a handsewn installation of bespoke pink cloth covering the brutalist lakeside terrace of London's Barbican Centre. More about Ibrahim Mahama wraps Barbican Centre in swathes of pink fabric "made by a lot of hands"
Italian jewellery company Bulgari has reclaimed the record for making the world's thinnest mechanical watch with the release of its Octo Finissimo Ultra Cosc, which has a thickness of just 1.7 millimetres. More about Bulgari unveils world's thinnest watch as skinny as a five-pence coin
Designer Joe Doucet has revealed his Airiva turbine – a modular wind power system that was conceived to have the necessary visual appeal to fit into urban settings. More about Joe Doucet's Airiva wind turbines are made for city streets and buildings
The gender pay gap at Foster + Partners is the widest it has been since the data was first compiled six years ago despite an overall improvement at the UK's largest architecture firms year-on-year, official figures show. More about Foster + Partners gender pay gap widest on record
Scalloped facades featuring tones of cream and red brick define a U-shaped housing block by Bell Phillips in Marylebone in central London. More about Bell Phillips creates Cosway Street housing block with fluted precast brick facades