The latest video in our Dezeen x MINI Living Initiative series investigates a design for a hydroponic vertical farm nestled among the skyscrapers of Shanghai. More about Vertical farm designed to produce food amidst Shanghai's skyscrapers
BMW has revealed a concept car favouring style over technology, which will provide design cues for the German brand's next top-of-the-line vehicle. More about BMW unveils Concept 8 Series coupe designed as a "driver's car"
Our job of the day from Dezeen Jobs is for a senior architect to join Mallorca-based OHLAB, which was behind the angular white residence that was named house of the year at the World Architecture Festival 2016. More ›
More about Job of the day: senior architect at OHLAB
A concrete ceiling in the form of an inverted pyramid opens up towards its edges to provide views of the surrounding rainforest from inside this house close to Brazil's Itamambuca beach. More about Gui Mattos perches timber-clad box on top of pyramidal ceiling at Brazilian beach house
Earthy materials and soft interior light define these new buildings that American firm Studio B created for a primary school situated in an American mountain valley. More about Studio B pairs weathering steel with red cedar for extension to remote Colorado school
Brooklyn-based studio Crème employed traditional Chinese dying techniques to create these indigo-coloured wooden chairs for Stellar Works. More about Crème creates indigo-dyed wooden furniture for Stellar Works
Gender politics return to the forefront in this week's comments update, following an opinion column by Danish architect Dorte Mandrup arguing against the labelling of female architects. More about "Feminists aren't going to be happy"
BMW Motorrad's latest concept vehicle is a zero-emissions scooter that would make it easier for riders to get around cities. More about BMW aims to "reinvent urban mobility" with connected scooter concept
IF_DO has designed a mirrored events pavilion in the grounds of John Soane's Dulwich Picture Gallery in south London, which was unveiled this morning ahead of this year's London Festival of Architecture. More about John Soane's Dulwich Picture Gallery informs summer pavilion for London Festival of Architecture
Miracle material graphene – considered the strongest substance known to science – has been used to make eco-friendly paint by manufacturer Graphenstone. More about World's first graphene paint launches in the UK
Foster + Partners has built yet another tree-filled Apple Store, but this one also features hand-carved stone staircases. More about Foster + Partners opens "one of our greenest Apple spaces yet" in Singapore
Architects Sílvia Rocio, Mariana Póvoa and Esse Studio have used curtains, patterned tiles and pendant lighting to create this homely office for a mobile dating app in Lisbon, Portugal. More about Curtains separate spaces of Lisbon office for a "hook-up app for awesome people"
Our job of the day from Dezeen Jobs is for an FF&E interior designer to join London interiors studio Black & Milk, which recently revamped an apartment in the UNStudio-designed Canaletto Tower. More ›
More about Job of the day: FF&E interior designer at Black & Milk
A tree grows up through a lightwell that Australian studio Welsh + Major has added to this house in Sydney, and topped with an opening glass roof. More about Welsh + Major slots lightwell between Sydney cottage and its brick extension
Brooklyn studio Bower's booth at this year's ICFF in New York included mirrors designed to look three-dimensional and minimal black lamps with ball-shaped bulbs. More about Bower presents graphic mirrors and lighting at ICFF 2017
Italian lighting company Artemide is the latest brand to add portable lighting to its collection with its cordless Emera and Empatia Mobile lamps. More about Artemide adds to cordless lighting trend with pair of portable lamps
Dezeen promotion: designers are being invited to enter their projects in the 2018 DBA Design Effectiveness Awards, which recognise the UK's most effective design projects. More about Call for entries to DBA's Design Effectiveness Awards
The Japanese House exhibition at London's Barbican doesn't offer solutions to the housing crisis, says Owen Hatherley, but it does show what's possible when architects respond to extreme change and instability. More about "The Japanese House is about fear, imagination, aggression and dreams"
Fingers of earth branch over this mound-shaped holiday home by architecture studio LASSA, allowing its owners to climb up onto the roof to admire Greece's Peloponnese peninsula. More about Domed summer house by LASSA offers an elevated view over a Greek olive grove
Lights that can slot into the ground or be strapped around tree trunks feature in this lighting collection created by designer Arik Levy for Delta Light. More about Arik Levy's Butler lights can be made to look like mushrooms