Italian designers Simone Caronni, Paolo Stefano Gentile and Pietro Gaeli have created an ecological packaging for fries made from recycled potato skins, as a sustainable alternative to paper. More about Peel Saver is an ecological packaging for fries made from potato skins
Textured brick facades are complemented by terracotta-toned communal spaces in this elderly housing complex, completed by French office Dominique Coulon & Associés in a suburb of Basel. More about Dominique Coulon adopts terracotta tones for riverside retirement home near Basel
The Sea Ranch community in Northern California will be spotlighted in a forthcoming SFMOMA exhibition. We've rounded up five residences on the coastal site that demonstrate why the 1960s development remains a holiday hotspot today. More about Five vacation homes at California's modernist marvel The Sea Ranch
The Sea Ranch, a haven for modernist architecture on the Californian coast, will be the focus of a major exhibition at SFMOMA. Curator Jennifer Dunlop Fletcher gives an overview of its history and explains why it remains an important example of "environmental stewardship". More about The Sea Ranch in California "still has a magical lure" says SFMOMA curator
In this week's comments update, readers think that plans for the King Toronto development in Canada are too "BIG" to be true. More about "This proposal makes Godzilla look like a social worker"
The New York City Economic Development Corporation is searching for prospective candidates to take over management of the annual NYCxDesign festival. More about NYCxDesign organisers look for new management
American firm Dumican Mosey Architects has transformed an old industrial building in San Francisco into a home, gallery and studio for a contemporary artist and her family. More about Vintage car mounted to ceiling in SOMA Residence by Dumican Mosey
Digital artists R Luke DuBois and Zach Lieberman have both created installations to reveal the primitive nature of facial-recognition technology that is used by organisations all over the USA. More about Cooper Hewitt reveals sinister side of facial recognition tech at London Design Biennale
Work has begun on a 200-metre-high office tower designed by Foster + Partners in Shanghai, as part of a regeneration programme in the east of the city. More about Foster + Partners breaks ground on Shanghai skyscraper
The latest video in our Dezeen x MINI Living series reveals a plan to recycle derelict homes, by demolishing them, combining the waste with mushroom mycelium and then using it to build new, biodegradable structures. More about Redhouse Architecture wants to use mushrooms to turn derelict buildings into new homes
Fungi can be used to break down waste plastic and create sustainable building materials, according to scientists from Kew Gardens in London. More about Mushrooms have the power to eat plastic say scientists
A robot appears to mill three-dimensional sculptures from within a framework of scaffolding in Burberry's shop on London's Regent Street. More about Robot produces polystyrene sculptures inside Burberry's London store
A rose and chai-flavoured ice cream designed by Sally Reynolds has won Bompas & Parr's ice cream competition, which took place during this year's London Design Festival. More about Rose-flavoured breast wins Bompas & Parr's ice cream competition
The former Philips power plant in Eindhoven has been transformed into an innovation hub by young architect Janne van Berlo, in a renovation that celebrates the building's industrial features. More about Innovation Powerhouse is a creative hub in a former Eindhoven power station
Concrete boxes housing galleries are laid out around a tranquil pond at this extended museum in Maryland, which architecture firm Thomas Phifer and Partners embedded in the rolling landscape. More about Thomas Phifer expands Glenstone Museum with minimalist galleries The Pavilions
Works by Australian designer Charles Trevelyan, including skeletal-looking furniture and monolithic marble benches, are currently on show at New York's Carpenters Workshop Gallery. More about Charles Trevelyan exhibits pebble-like benches and spindly tables in New York
Technology company Elvie has launched a cordless breast pump designed to be worn inconspicuously in any nursing bra. More about Elvie launches wearable breast pump that's silent and wireless
Architecture firm BIG has released images to show its transformation of an abandoned historic building in Copenhagen into the new site of famed Nordic restaurant Noma. More about BIG overhauls Copenhagen warehouse for Noma 2.0 restaurant
This captioned movie by Dezeen demonstrates how users can customise the pattern on Sony's new e-paper watch almost instantaneously. More about Sony's FES Watch U e-paper timepiece can be updated at the touch of a button
An abstract chess set made from recycled materials by Marco Campardo and Lorenzo Mason is among five objects commissioned by the Ace Hotel for the fourth edition of Ready Made Go. More about Abstract chess set and blue tableware created for London's Ace Hotel