Oblong windows with pivoting glazing cut through the striking white walls of this minimal five-storey office block in Japan's Aichi Prefecture, designed by local architects Yoshihiro Kato Atelier. More about Oblong windows puncture concrete office block by Yoshihiro Kato Atelier
This week on Dezeen, Google finally submitted plans for its BIG and Heatherwick-designed London headquarters and chose to honour Zaha Hadid's 2004 Pritzker win with a Google Doodle. More about This week, Google revealed its London HQ plans and spotlighted Zaha Hadid
This carton-style backpack by Kingston University graduate Magdalena Huber is designed to help people at music festivals avoid long bar queues. More about Magdalena Huber's Pikpäk lets festival-goers drink straight from their backpack
Design store owner Lauren Snyder and architect Keith Burns renovated a brownstone townhouse in Brooklyn to create this light-filled home for themselves, where spaces are framed by objects rather than walls. More about Lauren Snyder and Keith Burns create home inside overhauled brownstone in Brooklyn
Brooklyn furniture brand UM Project has used plastic tube armour, knitted fabrics and cast concrete to make a collection of fantastical storage cabinets. More about UM Project creates collection of "otherworldly" storage cabinets
Swedish designer Clara von Zweigbergk has created colourful lamps reminiscent of hot air balloons for Danish lighting brand Louis Poulsen. More about Clara von Zweigbergk's colourful lamps recall hot air balloons and carousels
MVRDV restored the industrial roots of this building in the Het Industriegebouw in Rotterdam to create a new home for the Groos design store. More about MVRDV creates interiors for Groos store inside post-war Rotterdam building
Following on from the blue bag's recent viral moment, IKEA has released a short film celebrating the Frakta tote and its multitude of uses. More about IKEA releases film in ode to its beloved blue bag
Following the completion of an unusually domed holiday home in Greece, we've rounded up 10 summer houses on far-flung Greek islands, including a modernist home inspired by Yves Klein's paintings and a once earthquake-damaged property restored using historical photographs. More about 10 idyllic Greek island retreats from Dezeen's Pinterest boards
IKEA's blue bag is the perfect pop-culture reference for a generation stuck in a rotation of rental flats, says Will Wiles in his latest Opinion column. More about "IKEA's Frakta has broken through into design consciousness"
The red concrete art museum that British architect David Adjaye designed for the Linda Pace Foundation is now under construction in San Antonio, Texas. More about Construction starts on David Adjaye's crimson concrete art museum in Texas
These new images of the Peter Zumthor-designed Zinc Mine Museum were taken by Barcelona-based photographer Aldo Amoretti during a winter trip to southern Norway. More about Peter Zumthor's stilted Zinc Mine Museum captured in photography by Aldo Amoretti
On Wednesday night, all eyes were on Central Saint Martins' BA Fashion class of 2017 – with students presenting collections that tackled pressing social issues, ideas about gender and the UK's upcoming election. Design reporter Alice Morby picks the 15 graduates to watch. More about 15 designers to watch from this year's Central Saint Martins BA Fashion show
Diller Scofidio + Renfro has completed the first stage of its renovation of New York's Museum of Modern Art, and has revealed details of its plans to extend into Jean Nouvel's 53W53 residential tower. More about MoMA unveils first phase of major overhaul by Diller Scofidio + Renfro
A rooftop swimming pool offers views over Cape Town from this house, which was designed by local studio The Fold Architects with pink-painted walls to offset a verdant vertical garden. More about Pink Cape Town house by The Fold Architects features rooftop pool and vertical garden
Our job of the day from Dezeen Jobs is for an architect to join Rise Design Studio, whose recent projects include a glazed extension to a house in north London. More ›
More about Job of the day: project architect at Rise Design Studio
To subtly extend a traditional Provençal farmhouse on the French Riviera, Ellena Mehl Architects has nestled a connecting building with stone and glass facades into a stepped hillside. More about Ellena Mehl Architects disguises Provençal extension with grass roof and terraced landscape
Researchers from MIT's Media Lab have developed a tattoo ink that changes colour according to varying glucose and pH levels inside the body. More about MIT researchers develop tattoo inks that could act as health trackers
An algorithm has usurped the traditional role of a designer to generate millions of unique packaging designs for Nutella. More about Algorithm designs seven million different jars of Nutella
Over 40,000 shards of polished steel make up this installation by Nendo, which is designed as an "ivy of mirrors" spreading across a Japanese flower-arranging school. More about Nendo scatters mirrors across flower-arranging school for Kaleidoscopic Ivy installation