Designers have the power to solve the world's problems, but it may mean creating more systems and less stuff, says Dutch designer and environmentalist Babette Porcelijn. More about We need designers, not scientists, to show us how to change the world, says Babette Porcelijn
This shed for storing heavy machinery is set into a hillside in Italy's Piedmont region, sheltered beneath a concrete overhang that swoops upwards to follow the site's topography. More about Concrete machinery depot by Deamicisarchitetti is submerged in a hillside
Blue and red threads form a colourful canopy above the workspaces of a multidisciplinary design team in Oakland, California, overhauled by architecture practice Medium Plenty. More about Colourful strings weave through renovated offices of Californian design agency
New York's empty walls could be covered with honeycomb-like clusters of pods to house the city's growing homeless population, as part of this proposal by creative agency Framlab. More about Framlab proposes parasitic hexagonal pods to sleep New York's homeless
In this week's comments update, we recap the sexism row sparked after a survey by Dezeen discovered that only three of the world's 100 biggest architecture firms are led by women. More about "No woman who works in this industry is surprised"
Norman Foster has lamented the UK's decision to leave the European Union, and said that the diversity of nationalities within his firm is a "cause of great celebration" in the face of Brexit. More about Norman Foster slates Brexit "madness" in World Architecture Festival speech
In this movie, designer Alice Lund explains the concept behind The Ned, a club, hotel and dining venue in a converted London bank, which was named hotel of the year at the AHEAD Europe awards last night. More about The Ned is "a hideaway from real life" says designer Alice Lund
The visitor centre designed by Foster + Partners as part of Apple's new California headquarters has welcomed its first guests. More about Foster + Partners' Apple Park Visitor Center opens to the public
Dezeen promotion: a symposium covering the most important architecture and design projects from the past 12 months will take place 9 December 2017 at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, with speakers including architects Wang Shu and David Adjaye. More about A Year of Architecture in a Day talks return to The Met in New York
Architect Michael Viviano has worked with his mum and dad to create them this concrete and timber house with a gable roof in Houston, Texas. More about Michael Viviano designs gabled house for his parents in Houston
The products that designers help create are the biggest contributors to climate change, according to research presented at our Good Design for a Bad World talks at Dutch Design Week last month. More about Mobile phones and other industrial products have "the number one impact" on climate change
Danish firm 3XN has completed a large sporting and cultural arena in Copenhagen, featuring a glazed curtain wall wrapped in timber fins arranged to allow partial views of the interior. More about Copenhagen arena by 3XN has an undulating wooden facade that rises up above entrances
Lee Broom has collaborated with glassware brand Nude to create a 10-metre-tall Christmas tree made of 245 individual hand-blown glass pendant lights inside The Shard in London. More about Lee Broom creates Christmas tree from 245 pendant lights inside The Shard
Architecture studio Fahed + Architects repurposed bedsprings to create this temporary pavilion in the centre of the Dubai Design District. More about Fahed + Architects create bulbous copper pavilion from old bedsprings at Dubai Design Week
Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Alice Bleton has designed a rooftop capsule to give city-dwellers a temporary retreat from their congested environment. More about Alice Bleton's bunker-like capsule offers an escape from busy city life
Brightly coloured circulation spaces contrast with the slick metal exterior of this data centre in Amsterdam, which Benthem Crouwel Architects designed as a more attractive take on high-security infrastructural architecture. More about Benthem Crouwel adds stripy tower surrounded by a moat to Amsterdam data centre
Albert C Ledner, an apprentice to Frank Lloyd Wright who helped proliferate modern architecture across the US, has died in New Hampshire aged 93. More about American modernist architect Albert C Ledner dies aged 93
British architecture firm McLean Quinlan has constructed a stone house in Jackson, Wyoming, modelled on a nearby 19th-century log cabin. More about Historic homestead informs McLean Quinlan's stone house in Wyoming
Dezeen is giving away five sets of rechargeable bike lights and magnetic reflectors that clip onto clothing, which are all designed by Swedish bicycle accessory brand Bookman. More about Competition: win a set of Bookman bicycle lights and magnetic reflectors
Tunisian-born fashion designer Azzedine Alaïa, who was known for his figure-fitting dresses, has died at the age of 77. More about Fashion designer Azzedine Alaïa dies age 77