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 ›
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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
Danish studio AART has been selected to design Denmark's national rowing stadium, with its designs for a tiered and timber-clad boathouse at Bagsværd Lake on the outskirts of Copenhagen. More about AART reveals designs for national rowing stadium in Denmark
Our job of the day from Dezeen Jobs is for a design and projects director to join British furniture manufacturer Modus in Somerset, whose cork Casper stool was customised by designers and architects for a charity auction last year. More ›
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Clay bricks that form a pixellated pattern clad this Mexican house, which AS/D Asociación de Diseño has arranged around a cactus tree. More about Clay brick and concrete Mexican house surrounds a cactus tree
It took less than eight weeks for Claesson Koivisto Rune's Three Piece Chair to go from cardboard mock-up to production-ready model. More about Claesson Koivisto Rune cuts out manufacturer to create chair in eight weeks
Architecture studio Mer Arkkitehdit has integrated the surrounding rocky terrain into its design for this spruce-clad villa in the historic Finnish seaside town of Hanko. More about Mer Arkkitehdit sets spruce-panelled villa into cliff face in Finnish seaside town
British jewellery designer Lara Bohinc has branched into lighting with a collection of lamps made from broken spheres. More about Lara Bohinc designs colliding orbs for first lighting collection