With leather banned at the recent Helsinki Fashion Week, designers were exploring more eco-friendly materials and supply chains. Founder Evelyn Mora names the five designers that made the biggest impression. More about Five designers making fashion more sustainable at Helsinki Fashion Week 2019
Fashion designers and brands need to start swapping animal leather for sustainable alternatives, or risk alienating themselves from consumers, says Evelyn Mora, founder of Helsinki Fashion Week. More about Fashion "needs to rapidly develop" beyond animal leather says Helsinki Fashion Week founder
Vitor Borges and Franck Laigneau set one-off vintage furnishings against whitewashed walls to create a series of unique spaces inside this boutique hotel in southeast Portugal. More about Portugal's eight-room Dá Licença hotel offers a "more personalised" guest experience
Polish designer Ewa Nowak has developed a mask that makes the wearer's face undetectable to facial recognition algorithms used in public surveillance cameras. More about Ewa Nowak's anti-AI mask protects wearers from mass surveillance
International architecture firm Gensler has proposed creating a pavilion alongside Notre-Dame as a temporary place of worship following the fire, which destroyed the cathedral's roof. More about Gensler designs Pavillon Notre-Dame as temporary worship space
Ecuadorian studio El Sindicato Arquitectura has built a 12-square-metre parasitic structure atop a building in Quito. More about El Sindicato builds tiny Casa Parásito on a rooftop in Ecuador
Curving pale wooden furnishings and soft pink, green and blue tones decorate this tea shop in New York City designed by local firm New Practice Studio. More about New Practice Studio colours minimal tea shop Spiritea with pastels in Manhattan
Hector Esrawe's design studio has developed furniture for an experimental housing project in Hidalgo, Mexico, but the designs will later be used to furnish social housing all over the country. More about Esrawe Studio designs furniture for social housing all across Mexico
New York firm SO-IL has envisioned a six-storey, concrete apartment building for León, Mexico, which is meant to offer an alternative solution for the country's low-cost housing shortage. More about SO-IL designs affordable housing for urban centre in growing Mexican city
Matthew Barnett Howland with Dido Milne and Oliver Wilton have used cork blocks to build Cork House in Berkshire, England, which is shortlisted for this year's Stirling Prize. More about Recyclable house is built from cork blocks
London's V&A museum has acquired a series of objects from Extinction Rebellion, including flags, pamphlets and digital files, that show how the global activist group has used design to galvanise public opinion. More about V&A adds physical and digital objects from Extinction Rebellion group to its collection
Designed as the first ever cross-border cable car the Blagoveshchensk – Heihe Cable Car will be built across the Amur River, which marks the border between eastern Russia and China. More about UNStudio set to connect Russia and China with world's first international cable car
Architecture practices OMA and CCDI have won the competition to design the International Conference and Exchange Centre on the waterfront in Shenzhen. More about OMA to create waterfront conference centre in Shenzhen
A glazed extension helped London-based Applied Studio brighten the light-starved interiors of this Hackney home, which boasts black-timber decor details and a sauna in the back garden. More about Hackney House features black joinery and a back-garden sauna
London design agency OMSE has created an augmented reality campaign for cultural venue Printworks London that transforms static typography into immersive three-dimensional animations. More about OMSE uses augmented reality to create moving 3D typography for Printworks
Our selection of the most promising architecture and design roles on Dezeen Jobs this week includes positions at co-working company WeWork and Austrian crystal brand Swarvoski. More about This week's top architecture and design jobs include WeWork and Swarovski
Amsterdam architecture studio The Way We Build has built a mobile cabin with a timber domed interior at a campsite within the Robbenoordbos forest in the north of the Netherlands. More about The Way We Build creates chapel-like retreat in Dutch forest
Mirrored tiles, patina walls, contemporary art and modernist Italian furniture make up this hotel within a 17th-century palazzo in Rome, which was formerly the family home of the owner. More about Gabriele Salini transforms historic palazzo into G-Rough hotel in Rome
A covered street cuts through this new university campus building in northern Brazil designed by Rede Arquitetos, Croquis Projetos and Neudson Braga, providing a shaded and breezy area for students to socialise between classes. More about White concrete shutters front Brazilian university building
Japanese architecture practice CAPD have completed Umi – a simple, white house in Tokushima prefecture overlooking the sea with a large, deep-set window and terrace. More about Slim white house by CAPD frames view of the sea in Japan