This year's Chicago Biennial doesn't provide a blueprint for the future of architecture, but it does offer clues for how to create one, says Aaron Betsky. More about "Chicago Biennial shows us how we might find building blocks for a new architecture"
Dezeen promotion: Czech glass and lighting brand Lasvit has created a responsive installation made up of 328 star-shaped light bulbs, which hangs from the ceiling of a university auditorium in Thailand. More about Lasvit creates glass sculpture that illuminates in response to music
Readers can't decide if a proposed Californian desert home made up of splayed white shipping containers should be classified as architecture or art in this week's comments update. More about "Interesting as a museum piece, not as a home"
The UK Independence Party has replaced its yellow, pound-sign logo with a purple lion's head – and is now facing a copyright battle with England's main football league, whose own logo is remarkably similar. More about UKIP faces copyright battle with Premier League over similar lion logo
Reclaimed metal panels and wood from railroad trestles were used to create an urban infill dwelling conceived by students in a design-build programme at the University of Kansas. More about Studio 804 uses salvaged materials to construct sustainable home in Kansas
Nordic Office of Architecture and Haptic have won the competition to redesign the Norwegian government headquarters after it was damaged during a fatal terrorist attack six years ago. More about Winning design chosen for Norwegian government headquarters following 2011 terrorist attack
Bjarke Ingels' firm BIG has unveiled its new visitor centre for toy company Lego – a stack of huge building blocks, featuring brightly coloured patios that are home to a submarine, a shark and a camel. More about BIG completes Lego visitor centre shaped like a stack of building blocks
WOHA co-founders Richard Hassel and Wong Mun Summ explain why they have launched a new homeware brand in this movie, which Dezeen filmed for the Singapore-based architecture studio at Maison&Objet in Paris. More about WOHA launches new homeware brand WOHAbeing at Maison&Objet 2017
Artist Katrien Vanderlinden has painted colourful shapes inspired by toy bricks onto a basketball court in the Belgian city of Aalst. More about Belgian basketball court refreshed with mural based on colourful toy blocks
The tallest of three office towers that Skidmore Owings & Merrill has completed in Beijing features a faceted exoskeleton, inspired by the patterns created by the folds on paper lanterns. More about Latticed shell of SOM's Beijing tower is based on traditional Chinese paper lanterns
Guests can stay overnight in former patients' rooms at this late 19th-century building constructed as a mental hospital, which New York studio Deborah Berke Partners has partially restored and redesigned as a hotel. More about Deborah Berke Partners transforms historic insane asylum into boutique hotel
New details and interior renderings of Uruguayan architect Rafael Viñoly's latest residential skyscraper for New York City have been released. More about Rafael Viñoly's 125 Greenwich Street skyscraper to rise in Downtown Manhattan
MVRDV's plant-covered walkway in Seoul may look like a low-budget version of the High Line, but it's much more than that – it's the sign of a new frontier in city-making, says new Dezeen columnist Gerard Reinmuth. More about "Seoullo is no High Line, but it is of equal importance"
Four months after MVRDV revealed its plant-covered walkway on a former elevated highway in Seoul, photographer Jim Stephenson visited the project to see how it is settling into the city. More about MVRDV's "Seoul High Line" captured in new photographs
Daniel Libeskind's architecture firm has finished work on the National Holocaust Monument in the Canadian capital, formed from tall concrete walls laid out like a warped Star of David. More about Studio Libeskind completes Canada's first Holocaust monument in Ottawa
Multicoloured slippers and T-shirts decorated with Wire chair prints feature in Uniqlo's new collection, which is dedicated to American design couple Charles and Ray Eames. More about Uniqlo launches collection celebrating the careers of Ray and Charles Eames
Ahead of the launch of our Good Design for a Bad World initiative, Dezeen editor-in chief Marcus Fairs asks, can designers make a difference when it comes to global challenges like climate change, terrorism and political shocks? More about "Can designers save the world?"
The UK's Design Council has weighed in to the debate about the declining number of students taking creative subjects, describing the situation as "not sustainable for design businesses or the UK economy". More about Falling number of students studying design "not sustainable" for UK economy, Design Council warns
A concrete-framed gymnasium in China, a seemingly endless atrium in South Africa and a flag-covered facade in Singapore all feature among the images vying to be named architecture photograph of the year. More about Shortlist unveiled for best architecture photograph of 2017
For this year's edition of the MPavilion, OMA's Rem Koolhaas and David Gianotten have installed an amphitheatre in Melbourne's Queen Victoria Gardens, featuring a moveable grandstand spanned by a "floating" roof. More about OMA reveals amphitheatre-like MPavilion complete with rotating grandstand