Vo Trong Nghia Architects has completed a house in Hanoi featuring walls made from different types of rammed earth, and gabled roofs incorporating planters used to grow fruit trees. More about Fruit trees grow from the roofs of Vo Trong Nghia's stripy rammed-earth house
Design firm Yabu Pushelberg has created camping-style furniture to save space in the guest rooms of this hotel near New York's Times Square. More about Foldaway chairs and bunks furnish bedrooms at Moxy Times Square hotel
Japanese architectural principles informed the design of this house in Upstate New York by Tsao & McKown, which uses heavy timber construction to eliminate the need for bearing walls and create an open layout. More about Japanese details influence Hudson Valley getaway by Tsao & McKown
Postcards featuring ancient Iranian architecture informed this collection of pleated, concrete tableware by Italian designer Gian Paolo Venier. More about Gian Paolo Venier bases concrete tableware on ancient Iranian architecture
Archmongers has extended the rear of a terraced house in Stoke Newington that features interiors lined with built-in plywood furniture to maximise the available space and a staircase made from a jigsaw of pieces. More about Canal boat interiors inspire space-efficient extension to London house by Archmongers
Our new Pinterest board features a mixture of eye-catching factories and conversion projects, including Alastair Philip Wiper's photographs of the Adidas factory in Indonesia and a Beijing industrial building converted into an artist's home and studio. Follow Dezeen on Pinterest ›
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Ceramic artist Seo-Yeon Park based this collection of slip-cast porcelain tableware on the colours and forms seen in abstract paintings by American artist Georgia O'Keeffe. More about Seo-Yeon Park bases porcelain tableware on Georgia O'Keeffe paintings
This week on Dezeen, Italian architect Renzo Piano released plans for his first Canadian project and SOM's modernist Park Avenue skyscraper in New York became the largest building ever put up for deliberate demolition. More about This week, Renzo Piano's Toronto courthouse and SOM's Park Avenue skyscraper hit headlines
Portuguese studio Promontorio Architects has completed the new Embassy of Egypt in Lisbon, which features robust concrete walls covered with bas-relief patterns that recall traditional Egyptian motifs. More about Geometric bas-relief patterns decorate monolithic Egyptian Embassy in Lisbon
New York firm Raad Studio has situated this beach house clad in light-coloured timber high above the sea level in New Jersey. More about Pale cedar beach house by Raad Studio perches atop a sand dune
Nendo has designed a group of mini cheesecakes to look like trees within a snowy landscape for the Japanese confectionary company Flanders. More about Nendo designs cheesecake in the style of a snowy Japanese landscape
Architects and designers have imagined ways to transform the central reservation along New York's Park Avenue for an ideas competition, including an underground rock-climbing wall, a huge cascading waterfall and a route for kayaking commuters. More about Waterfalls, forests and kayaks among proposals for Park Avenue centreline
Lacoste has swapped its distinctive crocodile logo for one of 10 threatened animal species on a series of limited-edition polo shirts, designed to bring attention to the global state of biodiversity. More about Lacoste replaces crocodile logo with endangered species for limited-edition polos
Netherlands-based designer Chungkong has created graphics to represent some of the movies up for the biggest accolade at this weekend's Academy Awards ceremony. More about Oscars 2018 Best Picture nominees illustrated as minimal posters
Lego is set to launch a range of botanical elements made from a plant-based plastic sourced from sugar cane, in a bid to reduce its plastic waste. More about Lego to launch sustainable bricks made from sugar cane
Carsten Höller will explore how plants react to human emotions through his next slide installation, set to be built inside the courtyard of a palazzo in Florence, Italy. More about Carsten Höller's next slide installation will reveal emotional links between people and plants
The site of the burnt-out Grenfell Tower in west London is expected to be turned into a memorial to the 72 people killed in last year's disaster. More about Grenfell Tower site to be turned into memorial to fire victims
Photographer Marc Goodwin visited Barcelona for the the next instalment of his series on architects' offices around the world, shooting among others the workspace created inside a former cement factory by Spanish architect Ricardo Bofill. More about Marc Goodwin photographs 14 architecture studios in Barcelona
Korean designer WoongKi Ryu has based elements of this chair on the motifs and colours seen in paintings by Russian artist Wassily Kandinsky. More about WoongKi Ryu's Abstraction chair takes cues from works of Kandinsky
The trunk of a Brazilian firetree pierces the white zinc-coated roof of this house by Aaksen Responsible Aarchitecture in Bandung, Indonesia. More about Fern tree grows through the roof of bright white "contemporary tropical" house on Java island