In this week's comments update, readers agree with residents of Paris, who expressed outrage over the installation of minimal, open-air urinals in the city centre. More about "The target population will never use these"
Germany's national rail operator has announced plans to play atonal music in a Berlin station, in an attempt to deter criminal activity. More about Berlin's Hermannstrasse station to trial anxiety-inducing music in bid to reduce crime
The latest instalment of our Dezeen x MINI Living video series explores a proposal to construct rows of affordable housing on bridges above roads in Sydney. More about Affordable homes are built above Sydney streets in proposal by NIKA
Architect Costas Kondylis, who designed countless residential skyscrapers in Manhattan including several for Donald Trump, has died aged 78. More about Prolific New York architect and Trump collaborator Costas Kondylis dies aged 78
American firms DeForest Architects and NB Design Group have created a dwelling in central Oregon with sliding panels that can either expose or conceal parts of the interior. More about High Desert Modern house in Oregon is designed to be "cool, calm and collected"
A 20-storey-high tower designed by the late Will Alsop, at his studio All Design, is set to be constructed beside the River Thames in London and is likely to become the architect's last major project in the city. More about Will Alsop's Heliport Heights skyscraper set to be built in London
A San Francisco-based footwear startup has launched a flip flop with a sustainable sole made from sugar cane. More about Flip flops with sugar-cane soles released by eco shoe brand Allbirds
Syrian designer Yamen Saraiji has designed a wearable, two-armed robot that acts as an extension to the human body. More about Backpack-style robot companion gives wearer two functional extra hands
Curved openings and salmon-pink furnishings appear throughout Night Tales Bohemia Place, a new east London bar designed by Sella Concept. More about Sella Concept uses pink tones for Night Tales bar under railway arches in Hackney
Dezeen promotion: over 800 buildings will be open free to the public during this year's Open House London, including the Stirling Prize-nominated Bloomberg headquarters by Foster + Partners and the new US Embassy by Kieran Timberlake. More about Open House London 2018 programme features Bloomberg HQ and US Embassy
Danish studio Norm Architects has teamed up with Japanese furniture manufacturer Karimoku to create four pieces of wooden furniture for a renovation project in Tokyo. More about Norm Architects blends Japanese and Danish styles in furniture produced with Karimoku
Office Winhov and Gottlieb Paludan Architects designed a decorative relief pattern that looks like bookshelves for the facade of this archive building in Delft, the Netherlands. More about City Archive Delft features brick-relief facade that evokes bookshelves
US architecture firm Studio Gang has revealed new renderings of a 40-storey apartment building in San Francisco, which will feature reinterpretations of the city's "classic bay windows" spiralled around its exterior. More about Studio Gang's Mira tower in San Francisco to feature twisting bay windows
A green rock counter curves in front of bulbous plaster walls inside this bar in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, designed by local architecture studio Isaac-Rae for a space tucked behind a cafe. More about Isaac-Rae hides cave-like cocktail bar behind Williamsburg coffee shop
Justice Stephen Breyer has been appointed to lead the jury for architecture's most prestigious award. More about US Supreme Court justice Stephen Breyer becomes Pritzker Prize chair
A visitor to the Serralves museum in Porto, Portugal, has been hospitalised after falling in an art installation designed by Anish Kapoor. More about Man injured in Anish Kapoor art accident at Serralves museum
Metal, wood and concrete were used to revamp a 1960s mixed-use building near Facebook's main campus and Stanford University, which houses a cafe at ground level and leasable office space up above. More about Walker Warner Architects overhauls Silicon Valley building using industrial materials
An irregular undulating roof tops this tree-house-inspired holiday home on stilts, built in a remote Chinese village by architecture studio Monoarchi. More about Treewow Retreat is a Chinese village house featuring a round freeform roof
Budapest is to introduce a ban on all buildings over 90 metres, but this will not impact Foster + Partners' plan to build a 120-metre-tall tower, which has already won planning permission. More about Foster + Partners' Budapest tower will be built despite city's new skyscraper ban
Dezeen promotion: a virtual architectural extension, a window to other parts of the world and an interactive ninja feature on the longlist in the Dezeen x Samsung TV Ambient Mode Design Competition, revealed today. More about Top 15 designs revealed in Dezeen and Samsung's TV Ambient Mode competition