In this week's comments update, readers are mocking designs for the Cyberhouse, a property based on Tesla's Cybertruck and created for apocalypse survivors.
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US firm Bates Masi Architects has lifted this New York home above the ground and added lower-level screens to let water pass underneath, helping ensure that "flooding becomes a non-threatening event". More about Bates Masi designs Kiht'han house on Long Island to endure periodic flooding
Home Farm is John Pawson's self-designed minimalist second home in the Cotswolds, England, featuring three kitchens but no clutter. More about John Pawson designs his own minimalist rural retreat
Dezeen has launched Dezeen Events Guide, a new listings guide covering the leading design-related events taking place around the world this year. More about Dezeen Events Guide lists the key architecture and design events around the world
Nature-themed artworks and bespoke furnishings feature throughout Le Coucou, a design-focused ski hotel completed by Pierre Yovanovitch. More about Ski-in-ski-out hotel Le Coucou boasts interiors by Pierre Yovanovitch
Smart-home technology and innovative cars were overshadowed at CES by tiny robots designed to be human companions. We've rounded up eight of the kitschiest offerings at this year's event. More about Eight cute and kitschy robots from CES 2020
London start-up Swyft has produced a sofa that one person can put together on their own without the need for any tools. More about Swyft creates flat-pack sofa that is assembled without tools
Iterare Arquitectos has used traditional construction techniques and local materials to update a 100-year-old home in Valencia with a minimalist interior. More about Iterare Arquitectos uses traditional materials inside Valencia's House of Giants
Swedish retailer Carlings has released its augmented-reality The Last Statement T-shirt, which can show a variety of political messages. More about Wearers can update political messages on Carlings' augmented-reality T-shirt
A sweeping, white-brick pavilion in Southwark Park in London by architecture studio Bell Phillips curves along the park's historic pathways. More about Bell Phillips builds curved white-brick pavilion in London park
San Francisco's Carpenters Workshop Gallery is staging an exhibition of works by Studio Drift that aim to showcase the "intersection of nature and technology". More about Studio Drift exhibits interactive works based on birds and dandelions in San Francisco
IKEA has sold a brutalist tower by Marcel Breuer in Connecticut to a local architect and developer, who plans to turn it into a zero net energy boutique hotel. More about Brutalist Marcel Breuer building in Connecticut sold to become hotel
Roger Scruton, the British conservative thinker, author and architecture critic who was co-chair of Building Better, Building Beautiful, has passed away at the age of 75. More about Philosopher and architecture writer Roger Scruton dies aged 75
IKEA is set to pay $46 million (£35 million) to the parents of a two-year-old, who died after one of the furniture brand's freestanding Malm dressers toppled onto him. More about IKEA to give million pay-out to family of toddler killed by recalled dresser
Peruvian studio 51-1 Arquitectos has completed an academic building in Lima that is meant to serve as a "gastronomic machine" for training culinary and hospitality students. More about 51-1 gives culinary school in Peru an industrial aesthetic
Five tile-clad towers make up this house in southeast England, designed by ACME as a modern interpretation of a hop-drying kiln. More about ACME reinterprets the traditional Kentish oast house as a modern family home
London designer Adam Nathaniel Furman has applied his signature colourful aesthetic to a tiled entrance and reception area for the maternity centre at the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital. More about Adam Nathaniel Furman brightens up London maternity centre with "flowerburst" mosaic
Fælledby is a sustainable housing scheme designed by Henning Larsen that will be constructed entirely out of timber and "place nature at its core". More about Henning Larsen reveals visuals for Copenhagen's "first all-timber neighbourhood"
A row of heritage-listed townhouses in central London is now home to the Inhabit hotel, which Holland Harvey has designed to have relaxed, Scandi-inspired interiors. More about Holland Harvey revamps Georgian townhouses to form London's Inhabit hotel
Interior designer Kelly Hoppen has created a collection of premium light switches and plug sockets for Focus SB that provide an alternative to "very conservative" electrical wiring accessories. More about Kelly Hoppen’s "jewellery-like" electrical accessories target the luxury interiors market