French designer Philippe Starck has created a minimal and recyclable summer sandal collection for Brazilian brand Ipanema. More about Philippe Starck designs collection of recyclable flip-flops for Ipanema
Filmmaker George Lucas has confirmed that he is pulling his MAD-designed museum from Chicago and plans to move the proposal to America's West Coast. More about George Lucas abandons Chicago museum proposal in favour of California
Dezeen promotion: this year's What Design Can Do conference will focus on European identity and how the continent can learn from new initiatives emerging in Africa (+ slideshow). More about What Design Can Do to examine how Africa can help solve Europe's design "identity crisis"
An oversized dormer window extends from the asymmetric roof of this house designed by architects Hiroki Tominaga and Yae Fujima for an elderly couple in Japan's Gifu Prefecture (+ slideshow). More about Hiroki Tominaga Atelier completes Japanese retirement home featuring a huge dormer window
Lifestyle magazine Kinfolk has launched its own gallery space in Copenhagen with an exhibition of rainbow-coloured room dividers, computer-generated chairs and a striped Memphis-style bench (+ slideshow). More about Kinfolk magazine launches Copenhagen gallery with exhibition of European design
Italian architect Renzo Piano has finished a major new park, library and theatre complex in Athens, following one of the largest donations for a cultural building project in history (+ slideshow). More about Renzo Piano completes Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center on a huge artificial hill
US firm In Situ Studio has clad this rural North Carolina cabin in darkened wood and set it far back from the road to protect it from view (+ slideshow). More about In Situ Studio hides black Corbett Residence in a North Carolina forest
New York-based SHoP Architects has beaten Adjaye Associates and Snøhetta in a competition to design a centre for war veterans at Syracuse University (+ slideshow). More about SHoP Architects chosen for National Veterans Resource Complex at Syracuse University
Brexit crisis: designer Nelly Ben Hayoun, who is urging fellow creatives to join a demonstration in central London tomorrow, which has been organised to express "anger at the whole referendum process". More about Designers and students to protest in Trafalgar Square as threats to Erasmus programme emerge
Graduate shows 2016: Bartlett graduate Joanne Chen has designed a factory that includes leisure and education facilities, based on the Socialist ideals set out by designer and activist William Morris in the late 19th century. More about Joanne Chen designs factory for London artisans based on the teachings of William Morris
Dezeen promotion: annual conference What Design Can Do is launching its first talks programme about the relationship between design and music (+ slideshow). More about Peter Saville headlines What Design Can Do for Music talks programme
Graduate shows 2016: Royal College of Art graduate Wan Tseng has designed erotic devices that provide a subtle, sensation-focused alternative to traditional sex toys (+ slideshow). More about Wan Tseng's Wisp wearables are an alternative to "intense" sex toys
Brexit crisis: creative businesses in the UK should consider relocating to the EU in the wake of Brexit, according to a lawyer who advises design and fashion companies. More about Design firms should "relocate their operations to the EU" if Brexit talks fail, says lawyer
Timber slats cover the walls and the windows of this house in Isfahan, Iran, allowing light to filter in without compromising the privacy of its occupants (+ slideshow). More about Inward-facing Iranian home lets light filter in through a facade of wooden slats
Brexit crisis: architects and designers in the UK should stop complaining about the outcome of the EU referendum and instead start fighting for better post-Brexit policies for their industry, according to a former senior policy adviser to the government. More about Designers should demand new policies to "make the best" of Brexit, says Rohan Silva
The facade of this house in the Spanish town of Novelda is divided into three sections that are each angled to make the most of the available views and sunlight (+ slideshow). More about La Errería designs a facade that angles in and out for House F&M in Spain
International font company Monotype has brought the London Tube's 100-year-old typeface into the 21st century, adding the hashtag, at sign and lighter weights more suitable for digital use (+ slideshow). More about Monotype overhauls London Underground's 100-year-old Johnston typeface
This riverside house in southeast England was designed by Sandy Rendel Architects with an upper storey clad entirely in weathering steel mesh, and a base of exposed concrete and glass (+ slideshow). More about Riverside house by Sandy Rendel Architects contrasts weathering steel with concrete and glass
Paris firm Belus & Hénocq Architectes has added a timber-clad educational centre and student dormitory to a boarding school, which sits in a landscaped park in the Saint-Denis area of Paris (+ slideshow). More about Timber and glass dormitory building nestles among trees in a Paris park
Zaha Hadid 1950-2016: British architect Amanda Levete explains why the BMW Central Building in Leipzig, Germany, is her favourite Zaha Hadid project in the next movie in our exclusive video series. More about Zaha Hadid's BMW Central Building is "a radical piece of thinking," says Amanda Levete