Brazilian studio Pascali Semerdjian Arquitetos has overhauled a São Paulo apartment inside a 1960s building, adding in a semi-circular wooden library to house the owner's extensive book collection. More about Curved bookshelf organises Pascali Semerdjian's VLP apartment in São Paulo
Serie Architects and Multiply Architects have built a zero-energy design school in Singapore featuring breezy open-air learning spaces. More about National University of Singapore's SDE4 building is a prototype of sustainable design
UNStudio and Monopol Colors have created an extremely reflective white paint that can reduce the amount of heat buildings absorb and cool cities in the face of climate change. More about UNStudio develops The Coolest White paint to cool down our cities
Italian architect Stefano Boeri has designed a vertical forest tower for Tirana, Albania, which will be planted with colourful and scented flowers and herbs. More about Stefano Boeri designs Tirana Vertical Forest in Albanian capital
We don't all need to become vegan to create a sustainable and biodiverse future, in fact quite the opposite, argues designer Sebastian Cox, in response to Erez Nevi Pana's suggestion that vegan design can limit climate change. More about "You don't have to be a vegan to live sustainably"
Open Architecture is building a concert hall in a valley north of Beijing, designed to look "as if a strange and prehistoric boulder had fallen there long ago". More about Open Architecture designs Chapel of Sound concert hall to look like hollowed-out boulder
Code Concept subtly overhauled this old steam engine shop just outside Stockholm to create a showroom for Swedish furniture brand Fogia, adding a series of deconstructable display fixtures to its interiors. More about Fogia's showroom sits inside a 19th-century steam engine workshop
Dezeen is co-hosting a programme of architecture and design panel discussions at Design Shanghai on 7 and 8 March 2019. More about Dezeen to co-host Assembly 2019 talks programme at Design Shanghai
New Zealand-born designer Sophie Rowley gives new life to discarded denim offcuts by recycling them into pieces of furniture with marble-like markings. More about Sophie Rowley designs marble-like furniture from repurposed denim
A snapping turtle tank provides a view through to a palm tree garden in an extension to a former council house in Dublin, designed by architecture studio TAKA. More about TAKA incorporates turtle tank into end wall of House in a Palm Garden
The first major exhibition of fashion by French designer Thierry Mugler, presented at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, examines his visions for "metamorphoses, superheroines and cyborgs". More about Thierry Mugler exhibition in Montreal includes garments for "dangerous seductresses"
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The winners of the AHEAD Global awards discuss their projects in this movie filmed by Dezeen for the hotel awards programme at the London prize-giving ceremony. More about AHEAD Global awards winners announced at London ceremony
American delivery company FedEx has developed an autonomous robotic delivery device to help retailers distribute same-day orders to their customers. More about FedEx's autonomous robot SameDay Bot delivers packages to your doorstep
Dezeen promotion: Patrik Schumacher is among speakers who will participate in a series of talks being held by Grohe, where the kitchen and bathroom brand will unveil its latest design collection. More about Patrik Schumacher to speak at Grohe's The Wave of the Future talks
IKEA claims its latest London store is its greenest ever. But how can this be true if another green building was demolished to make way for it? asks Tom Ravenscroft. More about "There's something seriously wrong with IKEA's most sustainable store"
New York firm Weiss Manfredi has revealed plans to update Edward Durell Stone's modernist US embassy in New Delhi, India, as part of a major overhaul of the complex. More about Weiss Manfredi unveils masterplan for New Delhi's modernist US Embassy
Snøhetta has released visuals of a Museum Quarter in the mountains of Bolzano, which will have a projecting stepped roof that doubles as a viewpoint. More about Snøhetta designs Italian mountaintop museum for Ötzi the Iceman
Architecture studio J Mayer H has unveiled a tram stop made from a stack of exposed-concrete discs in Kehl, Germany. More about J Mayer H creates international tram stop from stack of concrete discs
A 3D digital rendering of performance artist Marina Abramović wandered around London's Serpentine Gallery in this mixed-reality art installation. More about Marina Abramović: The Life presents the artist as a 3D digital avatar