Skidmore, Owings & Merrill has completed a new building on the grounds of the US Air Force Academy in Colorado, featuring a glass skylight resembling the tail fin of a jet fighter that points towards the North Star (+ slideshow). More about Oblique glass pyramid thrusts skyward from SOM's leadership centre at US military campus
As architecture in Iran undergoes a boom, architects Behzad Yaghmaei and Azadeh Mahmoudi have completed an apartment block in Kerman with decorative brick facades (+ slideshow). More about Pale brickwork creates decorative facade for Iranian apartment building
Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto has completed his first project in Hong Kong, combining elements of his previous structures with traditional Indonesian craftwork to create a shop and restaurant for Balinese hospitality brand Potato Head. More about Sou Fujimoto combines geometric forms with Indonesian crafts for Potato Head Hong Kong
Competition: Dezeen has teamed up with London's Royal College of Art to offer five readers the chance to win a pair of tickets to the private view of the school's 2016 graduate exhibition on 23 June 2016. More about Competition: win a pair of tickets to the Royal College of Art's 2016 graduate show preview
Dezeen was in Bucharest for the fifth edition of Romanian Design Week last month. Here we select products by our favourite designers at the show, including modular children's furniture, wooden headphones and traditionally patterned rugs (+ slideshow). More about Seven designers helping to put Romanian design on the map
Swedish sex toy company Lelo has developed a condom with hexagonal-shaped cells that the company claims will tear less than others on the market. More about Hex condom features a tear-resistant honeycomb surface
Kicking off a series that spotlights houses from different US states, we've searched our archive for five of the best residences in Texas. They include a black timber extension to an Austin bungalow and a lakefront dwelling with a pre-rusted steel treehouse (+ slideshow). More about Five of the best houses in Texas on Dezeen
A giant glass-and-steel doughnut that will transport passengers up and down a 162-metre-high pole is undergoing final tests ahead of its opening according to Marks Barfield Architects, who designed the British Airways i360 viewing tower. More about "World's tallest moving observation tower" prepares to welcome first passengers
Zaha Hadid 1950-2016: next up in our exclusive video series, Richard Rogers reflects on the battle to select Zaha Hadid's design for the London Aquatics Centre, a building he describes as "a roaring success". More about Richard Rogers "had to fight like hell" for Zaha Hadid's Aquatics Centre design
Furniture, tableware and objects from the Philip Johnson-designed The Four Seasons restaurant in New York are to be auctioned off, marking the destruction of "one of the rarest phenomena in Modernism" according to US critics (+ slideshow). More about Critics slam "painful" auction of items from Philip Johnson's The Four Seasons restaurant
A gabled cabin by architecture studio Atelier Bow-Wow and a faceted pod by artist Didier Faustino have been installed inside a Parisian gallery as part of an exhibition about imaginary worlds. More about Atelier Bow-Wow and Didier Faustino create glowing wooden shelters for Paris exhibition
It's not too late to find a last-minute present for Father's Day this Sunday. From a ballpoint pen that can make digital notes to a TV designed by the Bouroullec brothers, we've filled our gift guide with 10 of the best new products (+ slideshow). More about Dezeen Father's Day gift guide for the design-conscious dad
Design Miami/Basel 2016: each of the objects in this furniture collection by Kiki van Eijk is modelled on branches found in the forests surrounding the Dutch designer's Eindhoven home (+ slideshow). More about Kiki van Eijk casts branches in bronze for Civilized Primitives furniture collection
A year after transforming an old house into a gallery at the foot of the Swiss Alps, architect Matteo Inches has extended the building with a new concrete and granite gallery (+ slideshow). More about Studio Inches adds concrete and granite gallery to Alpine art museum
Graduate shows 2016: headpieces made from moulded plastic and knitwear inspired by "takeaway culture" are included in our design reporter Alice Morby's pick of the best collections from this year's London College of Fashion graduate presentation (+ slideshow). More about Five of the best collections from London College of Fashion's 2016 graduates
Design Miami/Basel 2016: an interactive wave of tiles and a crystallophone are among the 2016 Swarovski Designers of the Future Award commissions, revealed yesterday at Design Miami/Basel (+ slideshow). More about Interactive crystal sculptures feature in Swarovski Designers of the Future Award commissions
London and St Louis-based design studio Kiku Obata & Company is overseeing the redevelopment of an ageing downtown district in the US heartland, in a rural town where big-box stores have taken over (+ slideshow). More about Kiku Obata leads revival of historic district in a rural Illinois town
Johanna Agerman Ross has become the latest design journalist to switch writing for curating and is leaving her post as editor of quarterly design journal Disegno to join the V&A museum. More about Disegno founder Johanna Agerman Ross to join V&A as curator
Comments update: architect Kunlé Adeyemi's award-winning Makoko Floating School collapsed last week, sparking a debate about the project's credentials and the media's previously flattering coverage of its design. But does the floating-school concept still have a future? More about "Floating architecture is still a great idea for Lagos"
Benjamin Hubert's design studio Layer has created a collection of slip-cast ceramic trays with an integrated charging system that allows tablets and mobile phones to be powered wirelessly. More about Layer's ceramic trays can wirelessly charge electronic devices