Start-up company Pentatonic is aiming to "radically transform consumption culture" with a range of furniture and products created from food, electrical, plastic and textile waste. More about Pentatonic turns smartphones, cans and cigarette butts into flat-pack furniture
In an arid region known for its traditional adobe architecture, American studio Mollhaus has created a home for an artist with exterior walls that are coated in earthen-hued stucco. More about New Mexico home by Mollhaus takes cues from adobe architecture and desert terrain
Dezeen promotion: a hotel overlooking the Hajar Mountains in Oman and a Botswanan lodge located on a UNESCO World Heritage site are among the shortlisted projects for the inaugural AHEAD Middle East and Africa awards for hospitality experience and design. More about Shortlist revealed for inaugural AHEAD Middle East and Africa hospitality awards
A climbing wall, a study and a bedroom are all contained within this Brisbane house extension, designed by Phorm Architecture + Design to be reminiscent of a treehouse. More about Extremely pointed garden room features a treehouse-like design and a climbing wall
While some architects have been experimenting with mushroom mycelium as a cladding material, architect Dirk Hebel and engineer Philippe Block have gone one step further – by using fungi to build self-supporting structures. More about Tree-shaped structure shows how mushroom roots could be used to create buildings
Planting boxes can be bolted together to create mini gardens and farms, with this simple construction system devised by Danish architects Sine Lindholm and Mads-Ulrik Husum. More about Growmore is a modular building kit for urban gardeners
Our pick of the best architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs this week include positions with Chicago-based Studio Gang Architects and Dutch designer Marcel Wanders. More about Top five architecture and design jobs this week include positions with Studio Gang and Marcel Wanders
Full-height glazed walls are sandwiched between the meandering concrete floor slab and roof of this house built on a French lake, which can only be reached using a retractable bridge. More about AUM builds curving concrete and glass residence on the surface of a lake
Takei Nabeshima Architects has released new renderings of its design for an extravagant concrete holiday home, which forms part of French developer Christian Bourdais' Solo Houses series. More about TNA's dream holiday home is an upside-down concrete pyramid
Nishizawa Architects has replaced the facade and interior walls of this residence in Vietnam's An Giang province with moveable corrugated metal panels to create a "half-outdoors" dwelling for three families. More about Nishizawa Architects adds movable walls to multi-family home in southern Vietnam
Brand identity firm Matchstic has worked with Atlanta's Department of City Planning to redesign its branding and create new zoning signs around the city. More about Matchstic reworks Atlanta's zoning signs to make them more readable
This museum in Incheon, South Korea, is dedicated to teaching visitors about wood and features moving timber screens that create effects similar to dappled sunlight filtering through trees. More about Moveable wooden screens are set into concrete facades of Mokyeonri Wood Culture Museum
Furniture brand Hem has unveiled its 2017/18 collection, which includes new rugs and pouffes with elements borrowed from exotic plants and shimmering fabrics. More about Hem unveils Chlorophyll and Ink furniture collection inspired by exotic plants and fabrics
Our latest Pinterest board is devoted to stables – including ones that currently provide homes for horses, and ones that have been converted into houses and hotels. Examples include an open-sided shelter made from railway sleepers and a wooden cabin on the edge of a Finnish forest. Follow Dezeen on Pinterest ›
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US firm Webber + Studio has covered this family home in Austin with metal cladding that features raised strips of varying widths. More about Vertical strips surround white Barcode House in Austin by Webber + Studio
Masato Sekiya's firm Planet Creations has completed a concrete weekend house, which cantilevers six metres over a rocky ledge in Japan's Omine mountain range. More about Holiday home by Masato Sekiya cantilevers over a river bank in Nara Prefecture
Dezeen has teamed up with solar energy company Little Sun to celebrate its five-year anniversary by giving away three of its new Little Sun Diamond lamps, designed by Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson. More about Competition: win a pocket-sized solar lamp designed by Olafur Eliasson
Loewe creative director Bodo Sperlein has revealed his latest attempt to "de-geezer the TV" with the Bild X concept, presented this week at consumer electronics show IFA Berlin. More about Loewe unveils ultra-thin statement TV with a slender golden frame
White mashrabiya-style screens cover these apartments in Mombasa, Kenya, which Nairobi-based Urko Sanchez Architects designed to provide residents with privacy but also views out to sea. More about White latticed screens encase apartment block in Kenya by Urko Sanchez Architects
This week on Dezeen, new drone footage emerged of Lego's visitor centre in Billund, which was also launched as a replica model kit ahead of the building's opening. More about This week, Lego's BIG-designed visitor centre was captured by drone and released as a model kit