Danish design brand Hay has redesigned IKEA's iconic blue and yellow bag as part of a newly announced collaboration with the Swedish furniture giant. More about Hay redesigns IKEA's iconic blue Frakta bag
Nigerian architect Kunlé Adeyemi has confirmed reports that his award-winning Makoko Floating School has collapsed. More about Kunlé Adeyemi's floating school suffers "abrupt collapse"
Florida-based Saltwater Brewery has used by-products from the beer-making process to create six-pack rings that can safely be eaten by marine wildlife (+ slideshow). More about Saltwater Brewery's edible six-pack rings protect marine wildlife
Dezeen promotion: Tune in here for the live stream from IKEA's annual Democratic Design Day event in Älmhult, Sweden, for the latest news from the furniture giant. More about Watch IKEA's Democratic Design Day live from Sweden
Perforated steel panels create private enclosures around the balconies that front this compact housing development in Tokyo by local architect Hiroyuki Moriyama (+ slideshow). More about Hiroyuki Moriyama completes Tokyo apartment building with a perforated skin
San Francisco company Molekule has partnered with London studio PostlerFerguson to design an air purifier that breaks down pollen and dust at a molecular level (+ slideshow). More about Molekule air purifier destroys pollutants rather than collecting them
Local firm Tom Chung Studio has converted an industrial space in downtown Toronto into a multi-purpose venue with rooms and furniture that can be easily reconfigured. More about Tom Chung transforms factory floor in Toronto into flexible workspace
Dutch architecture firm OMA has restored the historic Fondaco dei Tedeschi in Venice, adding new entrances and wood-panelled escalators to turn the 16th-century building into a department store (+ slideshow). More about OMA completes restoration of Venice's Fondaco dei Tedeschi
Movie: in this exclusive video interview, Bjarke Ingels explains how his firm BIG used stacks of fibreglass boxes to create a huge undulating structure on the lawn in front of the Serpentine Gallery in London. More about Bjarke Ingels' Serpentine Gallery Pavilion is "mountainous outside and cavernous inside"
Footwear brand Converse has followed the redesign of its iconic Chuck Taylors with an update to the 1920 All Star, which replaces the shoe's signature canvas uppers with Nike's knitted Hyperfuse fabric (+ slideshow). More about Converse continues updates to classic designs with All Star Modern trainer
A team of architects in Chicago has proposed a house made of 3D-printed plastic and carbon-fibre panels wrapped around glazed walls (+ slideshow). More about WATG wins competition to design freeform 3D-printed house
Swedish firm White Arkitekter has won a competition to design a cultural centre and hotel in Skellefteå, Sweden, with its proposal for the "tallest wooden building in the Nordic countries" (+ slideshow). More about White Arkitekter selected to build timber-framed high-rise in Sweden
Comments update: readers have been discussing the ethics behind replica furniture this week after it emerged that discount supermarket Aldi was selling near-identical versions of a classic chair by Ray and Charles Eames. More about "Aren't the Aldi chairs closer to Eames' original design philosophy?"
Designer Asif Khan and architects Kunlé Adeyemi, Yona Friedman and Barkow Leibinger have each unveiled a Summer House at London's Serpentine Gallery, taking inspiration from a Neoclassical temple nearby (+ slideshow). More about Four temple-inspired Summer Houses built to accompany BIG's Serpentine Gallery Pavilion
BIG founder Bjarke Ingels has unveiled his Serpentine Gallery Pavilion – a wall of translucent blocks that has been "unzipped" to create a curving, cavernous interior (+ slideshow). More about Bjarke Ingels completes Serpentine Gallery Pavilion that is "both solid box and blob"
Competition: Dezeen has teamed up with UK studio Dorothy to give five readers the chance to win a poster that illustrates a whimsical hidden world inside a 1984 Apple Macintosh computer (+ slideshow). More about Competition: win a Mac Cutaway poster by Dorothy
London Design Festival 2016: the organisers of the London Design Festival have scrapped plans for a designer crazy golf course in Trafalgar Square following the failure of its crowdfunding campaign. More about Trafalgar Square crazy golf project cancelled following failed Kickstarter campaign
The ArDe architecture and design fair, which was due to open at Somerset House in London this week, has been cancelled due to lack of sponsorship. More about ArDe design fair at Somerset House cancelled due to lack of sponsors
Venice Architecture Biennale 2016: Indian architect Anupama Kundoo has unveiled a prototype house that can be built in just six days using Lego-like blocks of a material called ferrocement (+ slideshow). More about Anupama Kundoo uses ferrocement to create pioneering "Lego-like" house
Instagrammers have been sharing images of this year's Serpentine Gallery Pavilion, conceived by Bjarke Ingels as an "unzipped" wall of bricks – including construction snaps by the Danish architect himself. More about Bjarke Ingels' Serpentine Gallery Pavilion revealed on Instagram