Palm Springs Modernism Week kicks off today, and we're taking a closer look at some of the city's best mid-century buildings to coincide with the event. First up is the Tramway Gas Station, designed by architects Albert Frey and Robson Chambers to mark the entrance into the modernist mecca. More about Tramway Gas Station by Frey and Chambers is a modernist gatehouse for Palm Springs
British visualisation studio The Boundary has created a series of renderings depicting a "super luxury" hotel planned for a secret site in Arizona's Sonoran desert. More about The Boundary releases visuals of "pi-in-the-sky" luxury hotel in the Sonoran Desert
Korean designer Koo Hyeonjeong has created a conceptual tool for women, which could allow them to impregnate themselves through the use of a hand-shaped pump. More about Seeding Finger is a hand-shaped tool for artificial insemination
The next instalment of our Dezeen x MINI Living video series explores an experimental apartment by Swedish firm White Arkitekter, which can be reconfigured according to the needs of its residents. More about Reconfigurable apartment allows residents to transform their living spaces
The developer of a luxury urban quarter in Hamburg has agreed to remove a sign designed "as a tribute to the 20s" after critics compared it to concentration-camp signage. More about Developer to remove signage from site of Nazi torture cellars following backlash
Warsaw-based art collective Pangenerator has created an installation that invites observers to take a selfie, which is then projected onto a screen before vanishing into nothingness. More about Digital installation seemingly turns selfies into gravel
Portuguese architect Álvaro Siza Vieira has completed a church in the Brittany region of France, featuring a sculptural composition of intersecting concrete forms. More about Álvaro Siza combines geometric forms for white-concrete church in Brittany
Design collective EWE Studio has used fire to treat the many different materials in this limited-edition collection of jet-black furniture and lava-like lighting. More about EWE Studio's handcrafted Alquimia furniture and lighting is born of fire
Canadian studio DesignAgency has transformed a 19th-century building in Toronto, once home to a strip club, into a boutique hotel featuring patchwork flooring, patterned wallpaper and brass lighting. More about DesignAgency turns former strip club into boutique Toronto hotel
Nendo has designed a wireless speaker for Japanese brand Bunaco, using a thin strip of coiled beech wood trapped inside a transparent casing. More about Nendo exploits acoustic properties of beech wood for transparent Bunaco speaker
Nick Deaver Architects has added a corrugated metal extension to the rear of a bungalow in Texas, along with a new dining area with floor-to-ceiling windows. More about Nick Deaver enlarges 1930s cottage in Austin with glass and metal additions
Danish architect Dorte Mandrup has planned a building on top of a second-world-war naval bunker, in a UNESCO World Heritage area on the German coast. More about Dorte Mandrup to wrap heritage centre around second-world-war bunker
Stadium specialist Populous is planning to build spherical music and entertainment venues for the Madison Square Garden Company, in Las Vegas and London. More about Populous to design spherical music venues in Las Vegas and London
In the 1970s, the Open University offered a course on the history of architecture and design. Architects can learn a lot from it, says Owen Hatherley. More about "Can modernism be explained without an architectural education?"
Assembly Design Studio has converted a large warehouse in Pittsburgh into a workspace for Uber where self-driving cars are engineered, built and tested. More about Uber builds and tests self-driving cars at engineering centre in Pittsburgh
Tokujin Yoshioka has suspended 17,700 acrylic rods in the lobby of a skyscraper in Downtown Houston, creating a huge sculpture designed to resemble a cloud. More about Tokujin Yoshioka creates cloud-like sculpture from thousands of acrylic rods
The French operator of the Channel Tunnel has given the Boris bridge proposal a boast, by writing a letter to the UK prime minster in support of a second permanent connection between England and France. More about Eurotunnel "very interested" in Boris bridge between England and France
Yellow, turquoise, and coral-pink furnishings brighten this previously colourless apartment in Hong Kong, which has been overhauled by local studio Lim + Lu for a fashion designer. More about Lim + Lu uses brightly coloured walls and furnishings for fashion designer's Hong Kong home
Manchester-based designer Rick Banks has compiled three decade's worth of nightclub graphics into a new book. In a Dezeen exclusive, he picks out five of the most important examples and explains why they were so successful. More about Rick Banks compiles a visual history of UK club culture
This house in Portugal, designed by architecture studio NOARQ, features a large curving canopy that wraps around a south-facing patio. More about Curving roof and stone walls create seclusion for Portuguese house by NOARQ