Visitors to Bompas & Parr's Grope Mountain climbing wall clamber up "sensual holds" shaped like breasts and penises. More about Bompas & Parr's Grope Mountain is an erotic take on the climbing wall
IKEA's temporary shelter designed for refugees has been named the 2016 Beazley Design of the Year, beating the artwork for David Bowie's final album and a robotic surgeon. More about IKEA flat-pack refugee shelter wins Design of the Year 2016
A garden room containing a sunken Japanese-style bath has won top prize in a competition to find London's best new house extensions. More about Sunken Bath Project named London's best new house extension in Don't Move, Improve! 2017
Iwan Baan's arresting images of the Kenyan school built by architect duo Selgascano are a typical example of the slum porn that has infiltrated western media, argues Phineas Harper in his latest Opinion column. More about "Poverty should never be an Instagram filter"
Seven Scandinavian architects have now built treehouses for Sweden's Treehotel, including a bird's nest, a mirrored cube and the charred timber cabin added earlier this month by Snøhetta. More about Seven unusual treehouses you can sleep inside at Sweden's Treehotel
French designers Philippe Starck and Jerome Olivet have proposed a radical concept for the future of smartphones based around holograms and voice control. More about Philippe Starck and Jerome Olivet present gelatinous vision for future smartphone
The offices of 16 Parisian architecture studios, including Renzo Piano Building Workshop and Périphériques, feature in this set of images by photographers Marc Goodwin and Mathieu Fiol. More about Photographers go behind the scenes at 16 Paris architecture studios
A plywood box hosts the kitchen and staircase in this minimal maisonette in Islington, which has been reconfigured and extended by local architect Larissa Johnston. More about Larissa Johnston arranges minimal London home around plywood box
The Harvard Graduate School of Design is launching a web-based course that offers architectural education at no cost. More about Harvard to offer free online architecture course
German footwear brand Birkenstock has moved into the bedroom, adapting the principles behind its famous sandals to a collection of beds launched at this year's IMM Cologne furniture fair. More about Birkenstock launches line of beds as next step in comfort design
For her latest couture collection, Dutch designer Iris van Herpen created hypnotic garments that distorted the models' bodies. More about Iris van Herpen uses visual trickery for latest couture collection
Twenty-five plastic bottles are used in each of these IKEA kitchen units, designed by Swedish studio Form Us With Love to make "sustainability available for everyone". More about IKEA launches kitchen made from recycled plastic bottles
With its ability to improve a building's thermal efficiency and maximise natural light, polycarbonate plastic is becoming increasingly popular in architecture. We've rounded up seven of the best examples. More about Seven buildings that feature walls of polycarbonate plastic
The architecture and design industry still doesn't provide the same opportunities for both sexes said architect David Adjaye, on the day that hundreds of thousands of women worldwide marched for equal rights. More about David Adjaye "embarrassed as a male" that women still need to fight for gender equality
OMA's new headquarters building for the Qatar Foundation in Doha is revealed for the first time in these exclusive photographs. More about New photos reveal OMA's completed Qatar Foundation Headquarters
This house in Casablanca by architect Driss Kettani features a windowless white box perched above black- and blue-tiled walls, forming an abstract composition of geometric shapes when viewed from the street. More about Casablanca house presents closed facade to the street but opens to garden at the rear
This urban housing block by Mexican architecture studio Arqmov Workshop features a wood screen that was influenced by slatted boxes used to carry vegetables. More about Arqmov Workshop covers Mexico City apartment block in small wood squares
For his first collection at the helm of G-Star RAW, designer Aitor Throup explored the ergonomics of denim in a dramatic presentation at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris. More about Aitor Throup presents first collection as G-Star RAW creative director
With his stadium for the 2020 Olympics now underway in Tokyo, Kengo Kuma has revealed how his design involves Japan's tsunami-affected regions, how Kenzo Tange inspired his work, and why he now avoids iconic architecture at all costs. More about "I feel embarrassed by some of my buildings" says Kengo Kuma
Chilean architect Gonzalo Iturriaga used folded planes of blackened pine to create this faceted cabin as a retreat for a mountaineer in Chile's Valparaíso Region. More about Gonzalo Iturriaga's blackened pine cabin provides refuge for a Chilean mountaineer