Dezeen's US editor Dan Howarth spoke to architecture studios Desai Chia, MKCA and Only If as part of Dezeen's second Spirit of the City talk at A/D/O in Brooklyn. More about Watch Dezeen's second Spirit of the City talk at A/D/O in Brooklyn
An exhibit celebrating the work of late American architect-inventor Richard Buckminster Fuller opens in Los Angeles next week. Here's eight of his futuristic designs, including "autonomous" prefab houses with bulging windows, an underwater island and a pared-back rowing boat. More about Eight of Buckminster Fuller's most forward-thinking ideas
Drawings and maquettes by Buckminster Fuller prove that he predicted current global issues, and demonstrate how he proposed to solve them, according to the curator of an upcoming exhibition about the late inventor. More about Buckminster Fuller anticipated the problems we're facing today, says exhibition curator
Los Angeles-based art director Yusong Zhang has built himself a coffee table using over 10,000 Lego bricks, without screws or glue. More about Lego Table by Yusong Zhang comprises 10,480 blocks
American firm Ziger Snead Architects used stone shingles, charred wood and weathering steel for the exterior of a family home in Maryland, which was built after the client's ranch-style dwelling was lost in a fire. More about Slate House by Ziger Snead replaces fire-ravaged Maryland home
Berlin-based designers Studio 7.5 collaborated with Parisian 3D printing experts XtreeE to create a series of continuously printed concrete benches with a woven pattern. More about Collection of benches woven in 3D-printed concrete
Japanese art collective TeamLab has created a site-specific digital installation of water moving towards a vortex, on the inside of a domed roof in the new Amos Rex museum in Helsinki. More about TeamLab creates virtual vortex as inaugural installation for Helsinki's Amos Rex gallery
JKMM Architects designed a series of domed subterranean galleries for the soon-to-open Amos Rex museum in Helsinki, which bubble up through the ground to create a playful outdoor landscape. More about Amos Rex's bulging underground galleries create playful landscape in Helsinki plaza
Danish brand Muuto has launched its first ever high-back sofa, which it says is designed to create private spheres within large open-plan offices. More about Anderssen & Voll designs Muuto's first ever high-back sofa
American studio Michael Graves Architecture & Design has created new seats for players, umpires and line judges at the US Open Tennis Championships, which begin this coming week in Queens, New York. More about US Open tennis courts spruced up with furniture by Michael Graves' studio
Argentinian firm Alarciaferrer Arquitectos has designed a house with exposed concrete walls, a sloping roof and an outdoor swimming pool in a rural part of the country. More about Alarciaferrer Arquitectos builds Casa MM within Argentinian nature preserve
Brazilian studio Cupertino Arquitetura has renovated this mid-century apartment in São Paulo for the grandchild of its former owner, turning a pair of disused outdoor spaces into gardens in the process. More about Renovated 1950s São Paulo apartment is arranged around planted lightwells
Architecture studio Barclay & Crousse used local stone, and cement with a reddish hue, to make this house on the outskirts of Lima match the colour tones of the Peruvian desert. More about Barclay & Crousse designs clifftop villa to blend in with the Peruvian desert
Blocks of resin with colourful marble-like patterns surround chunks of wood to form these miniature storage boxes by Royal College of Art graduate Jie Wu. More about Jie Wu seeks to elevate value of plastic with series of miniature boxes
We've updated our Pinterest board dedicated to shingles, including a pavilion in the grounds of Japan's Shinshoji Zen Museum with a contoured form and a cedar-clad residence connected by a breezeway in Maine. Follow Dezeen on Pinterest ›
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A subterranean seed bank could be built into the slopes of Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, says Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts graduate Sean Cassidy, to ensure food crops can be regrown after an apocalypse. More about Sean Cassidy proposes first seed vault in Sub-Saharan Africa for site on Mount Kilimanjaro
New York City firm Mapos has nestled a grass-topped holiday home into a lush hill overlooking a Long Island bay, covering it in untreated wood, steel and concrete to match the surroundings. More about Hamptons retreat features grassy roof that blends with slope overlooking Peconic Bay
The colours of the sky are echoed in the furnishings and fittings of this lofty Manhattan restaurant, which architecture studio Woods Bagot designed so the views could "steal the show". More about Sky-high Manhatta restaurant by Woods Bagot borrows colours from outside
Architecture studio Tonkin Liu has converted a barn in the English county of Yorkshire into a house featuring a double-height library and a gallery space flanked at either end by huge windows. More about Tonkin Liu transforms agricultural shed into "container for books and art"
Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Ellie Birkhead has developed a process of brick making that incorporates local waste products from the Chiltern Hills, in an attempt to "forge a future for local industry". More about Ellie Birkhead uses human hair and manure to make region-specific bricks