Italian architect Stefano Boeri has unveiled plans for a city near China's Liuzhou, featuring towers completely covered in trees and plants to combat air pollution. More about Stefano Boeri designs "vertical forest" city to eat up China's smog
Scandinavian firm CF Møller has been appointed alongside Haworth Tompkins and Metropolitan Workshop on the housing scheme that will replace Robin Hood Gardens, the brutalist estate in east London designed by Alison and Peter Smithson. More about CF Møller appointed on Robin Hood Gardens replacement scheme
Dezeen promotion: Wilsonart has added six new designs to its solid-surface collection, based on the theme of "timeless luxury". More about Wilsonart expands Timeless Luxury collection of solid-surface materials
Retail startup Wheelys has designed a prototype self-driving supermarket that navigates to different locations throughout the day and uses artificially intelligent holograms to help customers. More about Wheelys' Moby-Mart is a self-driving store with a holographic shop assistant
London firm Stanton Williams has renovated and extended the Musée d'arts de Nantes, adding a series of extensions including a monolithic structure wrapped in stone and translucent marble to the beaux-arts building. More about Stanton Williams completes renovation of beaux-arts museum in Nantes with stone and marble extension
Plants will spill out between the overlapping wooden blocks that make up the facade of this hotel, which Kengo Kuma & Associates has unveiled for a site on the left bank of Paris' river Seine. More about Kengo Kuma reveals plant-covered Eco-Luxury Hotel for Paris
Ill-Studio and Pigalle have returned to a basketball court they previously overhauled with bold patterns, replacing primary colours with gradients of blue, pink, purple and orange. More about Colourful Paris basketball court updated with new hues
Dezeen promotion: the seventh edition of Paris Design Week takes place this September, with events focused on art, design, fashion, interiors, craft and food. More about Paris Design Week announces programme for 2017 edition
Galvanised-steel panels form faceted balconies and window surrounds on the exterior of this former grain-storage silo in Copenhagen, which Danish studio COBE has converted into an apartment building. More about COBE transforms Copenhagen grain silo into apartment block with faceted facades
These silicone plates designed by Royal College of Art graduate Lina Saleh wobble and jiggle to influence how diners experience their dinner. More about Jelly-like Living Plates tremble and bounce in response to food
Our job of the day from Dezeen Jobs is for an architect to join Cambridge-based Mole Architects, which designed a rural home in Suffolk that references traditional English rectories. More ›
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Stirling Prize-winning architect Amanda Levete and her firm AL_A have completed a new porcelain-tiled entrance and underground exhibition hall at the Victoria and Albert Museum. More about AL_A completes tile-covered entrance and subterranean gallery for London's V&A museum
Canadian studio YH2 has taken the notion of openness to the extreme in this small wooden cabin, which features stairs without walls and elevated areas without protective railings. More about YH2 adds sculptural upper volume to tiny forest cottage in Quebec
New York-based Jenny Sabin Studio has made a canopy of robotically knitted textile at MoMA PS1 in Queens that sprays mist in the day and glows at night. More about Jenny Sabin stretches robotically woven canopy across MoMA PS1 courtyard
Designer Anda Andrei explains how the interiors of the 11 Howard hotel are designed to age over time in this movie Dezeen filmed for the AHEAD Awards in New York. More about 11 Howard hotel in New York will "look better not worse in five years", says Anda Andrei
US President Donald Trump has suggested that his controversial wall proposed for the country's border with Mexico could be covered with solar panels, to provide cheap energy and help foot the bill. More about Trump touts solar-panelled Mexico border wall as cost-saving solution
A research team from ETH Zurich used 3D-printed moulds to make the skeletal framework for this all-concrete boat, which won first prize for design innovation at the Concrete Canoe Regatta. More about ETH Zurich team creates all-concrete SkelETHon canoe built on slender "bones"
Gentrification is the hot topic in this week's comments update, after the creators behind New York's High Line launched a website advising on how to create similar projects without pushing out local communities. More about "Gentrification is the fuel of Manhattan"
Dezeen promotion: LG Hausys has developed a version of its HIMACS solid surface material that can be customised with any suitable 3D pattern to meet the individual needs of interior projects. More about HIMACS Structura solid surface material can take on virtually any pattern
The world's first edible insect farms have gone into production after a successful Kickstarter campaign by Katharina Unger and her company Livin Farms. More about Bench-top insect farms are intended to make mealworms part of our everyday diet