After another turbulent year for the world, comforting cuddly furniture was a standout trend at last week's Design Miami fair, where several galleries showed snug sheepskin seats and cozy cocoons. More about Five furry, fuzzy furniture pieces at Design Miami 2018
Architects who demonstrate exceptional talent or promise will be granted special visas to live and work in the UK after Brexit, the Home Office has announced. More about UK to grant post-Brexit visas to architects with "outstanding talent"
London-based designers Rowan Minkley and Robert Nicoll use waste potato peelings to create an eco-friendly alternative to single-use materials like MDF and chipboard, called Chip[s] Board. More about Rowan Minkley and Robert Nicoll recycle potato peelings into MDF substitute
Window walls surround all sides of Glass Villa in the Lake, a three-storey house built by Dutch studio Mecanoo in the Cotswolds. More about Mecanoo builds glass house partly submerged in a lake in the English countryside
Next up in our review of 2018, editor Amy Frearson picks out the year's 10 most impressive houses, including a hillside house in Chile with unusual geometries and a treehouse-style holiday home in China. More about Dezeen's top 10 houses of 2018
The Aram Gallery has selected 12 emerging designers and studios to exhibit their shelves in a new exhibition that explores the typology of a shelf. More about The Aram Gallery's 12 Shelves exhibition explores the function of modern-day shelving
These 3D-printed hearing aids could help people who are partially deaf to tune out unwanted background noise, but they also function as regular earphones.
More about 3D-printed Hex hearing aids double as earphones to reduce stigma of hearing loss
Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson has extracted 30 blocks of glacial ice from the waters surrounding Greenland and placed them in public spaces across London, where they will be left to melt. More about Olafur Eliasson installs giant blocks of glacial ice across London
A network of subterranean concrete galleries forms the UCCA Dune Art Museum, which Beijing-based Open Architecture has completed in Qinhuangdao, China. More about Open Architecture builds cave-like art gallery inside a sand dune
Dutch designer Sabine Marcelis has created 10 resin fountains to celebrate fashion brand Fendi's decade of participation at Design Miami. More about Sabine Marcelis installs 10 Fendi fountains at Design Miami
A logo resembling "stencil letterforms" is printed on the exterior of the Diller Scofidio + Renfro-designed art gallery on Boston's waterfront, as part of a major branding overhaul by graphic design studio Pentagram. More about Pentagram prints stencil-style supergraphic across ICA Boston
Toy elephants modelled on a design by Charles and Ray Eames are among 15 presents we've picked out for children to round off our Christmas gift guides for 2018. More about Dezeen's Christmas gift guide 2018: kids
Hungarian-born Bauhaus educator László Moholy-Nagy is set to feature in a new movie, highlighting the role he played in bringing the school's ideology to America. For our Bauhaus 100 series, the film's director Alysa Nahmias speaks to Dezeen. More about Bauhaus educator László Moholy-Nagy was "not given his due"
Azusa Murakami and Alexander Groves of Studio Swine discuss their approach to design and the work they are currently undertaking as part of a residency at Brooklyn creative space A/D/O, in this movie produced by Dezeen for MINI. More about Studio Swine works with "plasma, fog and light" at A/D/O residency in New York
In this week's comments update, readers question whether illustrations of a country home designed by Charles Holland Architects have more style than substance. More about "Love that Denise Scott Brown makes an appearance"
A glazed box revealing floors wrapped in a terracotta screen forms part of this new academic facility, designed by CO Architects for a university in Kansas City. More about CO Architects creates highly transparent Health Education Building in Kansas
The impossible geometries of Dutch graphic artist MC Escher are explored by Oki Sato's studio Nendo in an exhibition open at the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne. More about Nendo-designed Escher exhibition opens at Melbourne's National Gallery of Victoria
A bright blue wall and a giant window-side bath tub feature in this converted attic apartment by Gon Architects, in the Conde Duque district of Madrid. More about Secret rooms are accessed through a bath tub in G House by Gon Architects
Inspirational business leader Charlotte Wiking, a key figure in Sweden's creative industries, has passed away after a short illness. More about Stockholm Design's Charlotte Wiking dies at 48
Harvard scientists will attempt to replicate the climate-cooling effect of volcanic eruptions with a world-first solar geoengineering experiment set for early 2019. More about First geoengineering experiment to dim the sun on track for 2019