SP-Arte may be best known as Brazil's leading art fair, but it also provides a platform for young designers. Contributor Benoit Loiseau selects his highlights of the ones to watch at this year's event. More about Five emerging Brazilian design studios to watch from SP-Arte
Architects Heatherwick Studio and Kohn Pedersen Fox have been appointed to design a new wing at Singapore's Changi Airport, which will aim to challenge the "sterility and soullessness" of terminal design. More about Heatherwick Studio and KPF to design new terminal for Singapore's Changi Airport
With Milan design week about to start, we asked designers to name their favourite hangouts in the city. Highlights include a plant-filled gin distillery, a "chocolate factory" and a locomotive factory converted into a gallery. More about 12 of Milan's best bars, restaurants and galleries nominated by designers
This captioned movie shows Virgin Galactic's prototype SpaceShipTwo VSS Unity complete its first supersonic, rocket-powered flight, taking the company one step closer to commercial space travel. More about Footage shows Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo take first successful test flight
Extending this historic home in the capital of Uruguay has allowed architect Pedro Livni to reconfigure living spaces into a cafe, and place a bakery in the courtyard. More about Heritage building in Uruguay houses new bakery and cafe by Pedro Livni Arquitecto
Pink bathrooms covered in silk flowers and a hanging unicorn sculpture are among the host of fanciful features Martin Brudnizki Design Studio has included in its overhaul of infamous London members' club Annabel's. More about Martin Brudnizki aims for "English eccentricity" with decadent redesign of members' club Annabel's
Furniture brands who work with female designers shouldn't expect them to only produce feminine objects, according to Danish designer Cecilie Manz. More about Brands "ask for you because you're a woman and not dead" says Cecilie Manz
Audi has transformed a virtual car design taken from video game Gran Turismo into a real-life racing vehicle. More about Audi makes the virtual reality with real-life Gran Turismo car
Dezeen promotion: Grohe is revealing its latest Atrio collection, a range of minimalist bathroom faucets, with an installation in Milan. More about Grohe to present minimalist bathroom faucets at Milan design week
Architect Safia Qureshi wanted to change the world but ended up designing private houses for rich people. So she invented Cupclub, a circular-economy service that could eliminate single-use coffee cups. As it launches in London, she spoke to Dezeen about the project. More about "It makes you a bad designer if you make something that can't be recycled" says Cupclub founder
Dezeen promotion: trend forecaster Li Edelkoort is teaming up with Google to investigate how electronic devices of the future could become more tactile. More about Li Edelkoort and Google explore how digital devices can be more sensorial
Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec have worked alongside master glassmakers in Italy to create a collection of handmade objects, which they liken to still-life paintings by Italian artist Giorgio Morandi. More about Bouroullecs create range of painterly glass objects for Wonderglass
In the latest movie in our Bolon at Heart series, Chinese architects Lyndon Neri and Rossana Hu explain how they referenced Swedish landscapes to showcase Bolon's new flooring collection in Stockholm and Milan. More about Neri&Hu creates "abstract forest" to launch Bolon's new flooring collection
Italian design studio Pininfarina has completed its first residential project – a luxury tower in São Paulo that aims to bring the "sportiness and elegance" of its car design to architecture. More about Pininfarina brings "dynamism" of car design to first residential tower
Dezeen promotion: students at the Southern California Institute of Architecture have suggested ways to transform a former jail in Los Angeles, including a park controlled by artificial intelligence and building models designed by 3D printers. More about SCI-Arc students propose self-growing park and parasitic housing to adapt former LA prison
Music festivals like Coachella are changing the way people experience artworks and installations, according to American artist Phillip K Smith III. More about Coachella offers experience with art outside the white gallery, says Phillip K Smith III
Dutch firm MVRDV has won a contest to create a wave-like viewpoint on the coast of Holland, which is designed to rock like a seesaw with the changing of the tides. More about MVRDV reveals plans for rocking viewing platform on Dutch coast
We've selected four of the best London-based landscape architecture roles currently available on Dezeen Jobs, which includes roles with Adjaye Associates and John McAslan and Partners. More about Four of the best landscape architecture roles in London
British designer Lara Bohinc was inspired by the shapes of planets and their orbits when designing her first collection of chairs. More about Lara Bohinc takes cues from celestial forms for first seating collection
Succulents and other small plants grow from the tiles that clad this 3D-printed shed, which was designed to offer a solution for the Bay Area's housing shortage. More about 3D-printed tiles filled with succulents form cabin by Emerging Objects