In this week's comments update, readers are struggling to understand how the Hunters Point library in Long Island City passed building approval with many areas not accessible to people with disabilities. More about "Inaccessible areas are inexcusable and non-negotiable"
Architectural filmmakers Ila Bêka and Louise Lemoine have released footage from a film showing the impact of flooding in Venice. More about Bêka & Lemoine's latest film shows Venice's worst flood in half a century
Wooden decor and glass vitrines feature in this cannabis shop in the Pacific Northwest, which was designed by US studio Graham Baba Architects to provide a "personalised, leisurely browsing experience". More about Graham Baba Architects creates relaxed atmosphere within Seattle cannabis dispensary
London studio Seymourpowell has designed concepts for a wearable collar and chaise longue powered by AI, which use atomised cosmetic products to protect city-dwellers from harmful pollutants. More about Seymourpowell's Atmosphère devices diffuse cosmetics at the user
SpaceContinuum Design Studio and Shape Architecture Practice and Research have designed a pavilion in the emirate of Sharjah to house Random International's Rain Room installation. More about Sharjah Arts Foundation creates permanent home for the Rain Room in UAE
Continuing our high-tech architecture series, we take a look at the inside-out Lloyd's building in London, Richard Rogers' second major building following Centre Pompidou. More about The Lloyd's building is Richard Rogers' first high-tech office block
This year's Oslo Architecture Triennale looks at degrowth, an economic strategy that calls for a reduction of both production and consumption, and asks what architecture could do to support it. Dezeen editor-at-large Amy Frearson picks out 10 of the most interesting ideas. More about Ten ways architecture could support a degrowth economy
Kazakhstani designer Enis Akiev has developed a method for turning single-use plastic packaging into tiles, by emulating the organic process of rock formation. More about Enis Akiev makes marbled tiles from post-consumer plastic waste
This collection of illuminated "totems" designed by Indian lighting brand Klove embodies an unconventional blend of art deco and tribal references. More about Klove's Totems Over Time lights take the form of art deco-style talismans
Creative agency Heimat Berlin used images of lettering graffitied onto the Berlin Wall to create this typeface commemorating the 30th anniversary of the fall of the barrier separating East and West Berlin. More about Heimat creates typeface using street art from the Berlin Wall
A hidden corridor beneath a grass hill links the metal-clad volumes of this house and cooking school in the Netherlands by architecture firm Mecanoo.
More about Hidden corridor connects different parts of Dutch homestead by Mecanoo
A black-painted wood structure separates spaces inside an old industrial building in Toronto that local firm StudioAC designed as office space for a visual effects company. More about Angular black frames form studios in Toronto visual effects office
Architecture and design magazine Metropolis has been acquired by media company Sandow. More about Sandow acquires Metropolis magazine
Los Angeles clothing brand Lunya has created its New York store with vintage and contemporary finds to decorate zones as if they were a dining room, bedroom and living area. More about Lunya styles Manhattan store like a "glitzy, upscale New York apartment"
London's Design Museum has unveiled its exhibition programme for 2020, with a major show about fashion brand Prada due to open in September. More about Design Museum will showcase Prada, trainers and electronic music in 2020 as visitor numbers rise
American studio The Ranch Mine has completed a residence in Phoenix that features a mix of gabled and flat volumes wrapped in corrugated metal, white stucco and honey-toned wood. More about The Ranch Mine creates modern courtyard home in the Arizona desert
Russian architect Eduard Eremchuk used Tetris-like orange modular furniture on wheels to solve the problem of limited space in a tiled cafe in Rostov-on-Don. More about Cow-print tiles and Tetris-style orange furniture feature in Russian cafe
Charlotte and Clementine Fiell's book, Women in Design, highlights what made figures like Apple icon designer Susan Kare and architect Zaha Hadid revolutionary. The authors pick five women from the book who transformed design. More about Five female trailblazers who changed the field of design
Next in our high-tech architecture series is Norman Foster's Renault Distribution Centre in Swindon, one of the most expressive and distinctive examples of the style. More about Norman Foster's Renault Distribution Centre is high-tech architecture's most flamboyant structure
Israeli designer Yaara Nusboim has developed a series of wooden toys in collaboration with child psychologists, that can help kids process difficult or repressed emotions as part of the therapeutic process. More about Yaara Nusboim designs therapy dolls for children struggling with emotional trauma