Stockholm-based designer Julia Olanders has used construction materials that are usually hidden in buildings to create a series of decorative vases for her Betweenness project. More about Julia Olanders makes "toxic" vases from insulation foam and concrete
Dezeen promotion: this year's edition of the Radical Innovation Award has opened its call for entries, with both professionals and students invited to submit forward-thinking hospitality designs. More about Radical Innovation Award 2020 for hospitality design opens for entries with new products category
Architect Lorenzo Grifantini stacked the bedrooms of his own house in Puglia, Italy, inside a 12-metre-high white tower overlooking a large courtyard. More about Architect designs own house with white tower in Puglia
The developers of topped-out New York skyscraper 200 Amsterdam, designed by Elkus Manfredi Architects, are taking legal action after a court ruling to reduce the tower's height. More about Developers of Elkus Manfredi's New York skyscraper ordered to cut 20 storeys
The Design Transfigured/Waste Reimagined exhibition at the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art features projects that repurpose waste products. Here are eight highlights including vases sculpted from PVC pipes. More about Eight designs that make use of waste products
Dutch designers Iris van Daalen and Ruben Thier's The Plastic Mine is a series of home accessories made from plastic clumps gathered from a factory floor. More about Thier & van Daalen's The Plastic Mine homeware reveals hidden patterns in factory waste
Artist and designer Max Siedentopf has apologised for offending people with his photos of home-made coronavirus masks, adding that his work aims to take people "out of their comfort zone". More about Max Siedentopf apologises for offence caused by images of coronavirus masks made of everyday items
Grimshaw, the studio behind the Eden Project in Cornwall, has designed an ecological resort in Northern Ireland that will feature a thatched play area and treetop walkways. More about Grimshaw releases visuals of Eden Project Foyle with thatched centrepiece
The discussion between Dutch designer Richard Hutten and Ellen MacArthur Foundation CEO Andrew Morlet at the inaugural Dezeen Day conference last year was one of the liveliest, with the two disagreeing over whether plastic can be part of a circular economy. More about Watch the video of the Dezeen Day discussion about designing for the circular economy
A series of triangular and rectangular platforms create numerous floor levels inside this house in Osaka, Japan. More about House in Takatsuki by Tato Architects has 16 different floor levels
Design studio Formafantasma has created a display for the Rijksmuseum's Baroque in Rome exhibition that will be taken apart and recycled afterwards. More about Formafantasma designs recyclable displays for Rijksmuseum exhibition
Architects Farshid Moussavi and Issa Diabaté will be joined by designers Paola Navone and Konstantin Grcic as judges for this year's Dezeen Awards. More about Farshid Moussavi and Konstantin Grcic among final judges announced for Dezeen Awards 2020
Airbus has revealed a working model of its MAVERIC aircraft, which has a "blended wing body" design that could reduce fuel consumption by up to 20 per cent. More about Airbus unveils working model of its fuel-saving "giant flying wing"
Architecture studio Sārānsh has used an array of materials to define the different living zones of this open-plan studio apartment in Ahmedabad, India. More about Sārānsh combines concrete, blue tiles and teak inside India's MD Apartment
In our latest competition, we've teamed up with the Alpaga chalet in Megève, France, to offer readers the chance to win a two night stay for two people and dinner in the hotel's Michelin star restaurant. More about Competition: win a two night stay at the Alpaga hotel in France
A perforated metal screen shades the plywood interiors of a performing arts centre for a college in Victoria, Australia, by Branch Studio Architects. More about Branch Studio uses plywood and perforated metal for Arts Epicentre
London design studio Brinkworth has built an elevated skateboarding bowl inside this Supreme store in San Francisco that reverberates sounds "like a huge speaker". More about Brinkworth suspends wooden skateboarding bowl inside San Francisco's Supreme store
Designer David Rockwell is among six trustees that have stepped down to protest Caroline Baumann's resignation as director of the Cooper Hewitt after it was reported her departure followed an investigation into her wedding. More about Six Cooper Hewitt trustees resign to protest Caroline Baumann's departure
In this week's comments update, readers are debating a suggestion that dams be built around the North Sea in a bid to protect northern Europe from rising sea levels. More about "Suddenly Elon Musk's plan for us all emigrating to Mars doesn't look so crazy"
Architecture firm Feuerstein Quagliara has integrated a series of covered outdoor spaces into this country home, which is designed to provide "visual and physical connections to the landscape from every room". More about Hass House by Feuerstein Quagliara is designed to embrace New York's pastoral scenery