The third Chicago Architecture Biennial draws attention to the biggest issues facing today's society, but is short on architects wrangling with them, says Mimi Zeiger. More about "What are we left with when architecture is stripped of its spatiality, materiality and aesthetics?"
Wim Crouwel, the renowned Dutch graphic designer responsible for the identity of Amsterdam's Stedelijk Museum for more than two decades and founder of Total Design, has died aged 90. More about Dutch typographer and graphic designer Wim Crouwel dies at 90
An expansive green roof, bird-friendly glass and copper accents are among the design elements that architecture firm FXCollaborative incorporated into an angular museum on Liberty Island in the New York Harbor. More about Flowering meadow tops Statue of Liberty Museum in New York by FXCollaborative
Dezeen promotion: brands Makita, SCG and TOSTEM will appear at the debut edition of ACT Forum'19 exposition in November, alongside architect Stefano Boeri. More about Architect Stefano Boeri to speak at first ACT Forum'19
Artist Edoardo Tresoldi has partially filled the walls of Simbiosi – a ghostly wire-mesh sculpture on a hillside at the Arte Sella open-air museum in Italy – with rocks. More about Edoardo Tresoldi creates ethereal wire mesh sculpture at Arte Sella
Social enterprise Make Bank has released a collection of 24 prints by British creatives, including textile designer Donna Wilson and graphic designer Peter Chadwick, to help fund arts education for disadvantaged children. More about Make Bank's Print Project sees 20 designers create prints to fund arts education
Travel agency Luxury Action is planning to build the "northernmost hotel in the world" by placing a group of heated glass igloos at the North Pole. More about Portable igloos designed to let holidaymakers sleep at the North Pole
Suzanne Livingston, curator of the recent Barbican Centre exhibition about artificial intelligence, will speak about the impact of technology on cities at Dezeen Day on 30 October. More about Suzanne Livingston to speak about artificial intelligence at Dezeen Day
A series of light-filled living spaces feature inside this Barcelona apartment, which Raúl Sanchez Architects has stripped back to highlight the building's sloped facade. More about Raúl Sanchez Architects strips back Barcelona apartment to showcase architectural details
Dezeen promotion: Improving sustainability, encouraging community and helping people navigate the data economy are some of the things that media architecture can offer. More about Architects have the "opportunity to be bold with media facades"
Photographer Dan Tobin Smith used footage of more than 100 gemstones, blown up to 60 times their size, to create an immersive installation in the basement of Collins Music Hall for London Design Festival. More about Dan Tobin Smith blows up gemstones to 60 times their size for Void installation
This week we've selected five exciting architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs, including vacancies at international architecture firms OMA and FR-EE. More about Architecture and design roles on Dezeen Jobs this week include positions at OMA and FR-EE
A frame of monolithic concrete portals supports a bar and cafe, designed by Portal 92, which overlooks a raised terrace of terracotta-coloured seating in Moradabad, India. More about Portal 92 designs Village Cafe to evoke feeling of an Indian village
Argentinian studio Adamo Faiden has renovated the curved lower floor of this 1929 home in Buenos Aires to create a light-filled room that opens onto the garden. More about Adamo Faiden refreshes modernist white house in Buenos Aires
Two friends who met working at Fritz Hansen in New York have opened their own furniture store in the Hudson Valley, filled with mid-century and contemporary designs. More about Design connoisseurs open Gestalt furniture store in Hudson
Architecture studio Feld72 have completed the Maierhof housing estate in the Alpine town of Bludenz, Austria, comprising eight timber buildings in a mountain landscape. More about Feld72 builds housing estate from timber in Alpine town
Liverpool-based Granby Workshop has made a series of tableware products from the industrial and post-consumer clay waste that would otherwise be sent to landfill. More about Granby Workshop recycles waste sludge from clay industries to make earthen tableware
As a new university year begins, we're waving off our freshers and returning students with Pinterest collections of homely bedrooms and alcoves, space saving interiors and storage ideas that even your parents would approve of. Follow Dezeen on Pinterest › More about Make your university house a home with this week's Pinterest boards
Fumihiko Sano Studio has created a cafe and shop for San Francisco chocolatier Dandelion Chocolate, which occupies a century-old house in Kyoto, Japan. More about Fumihiko Sano Studio creates cedar-lined chocolate cafe in Kyoto
American architect David Rockwell has designed a collection of more sustainable office furniture for Benchmark that draws on the adaptability of his theatre set design. More about David Rockwell designs Sage office furniture to be more sustainable and adaptable