Swedish furniture giant IKEA is set to release a lightweight bicycle tailored for city environments, designed with a rust-free belt to replace the traditional bike chain. More about IKEA to launch low-maintenance Sladda bicycle for urban riders
Milan 2016: British designer Sebastian Wrong's new lighting brand has launched with a collection that includes a task light by Pierre Charpin and a range of lamps with interchangeable patterned shades (+ slideshow). More about Hay and Sebastian Wrong debut Wrong London lighting collection
EU referendum: uncertainty over whether the UK will vote to leave the European Union is affecting creative business as customers postpone decisions, according to designer Tom Dixon. More about "Brexit" vote could damage London's design status, says Tom Dixon
Milan 2016: crystal brand Swarovski has launched its debut homeware range with products by designers including Raw Edges, Aldo Bakker, and the late Zaha Hadid (+ slideshow). More about Swarovski's first homeware collection includes centrepiece by Zaha Hadid
Milan 2016: French design duo Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec have created a customisable self-assembly sofa for Danish design brand Hay's 2016 range (+ movie). More about Bouroullec brothers design flat-pack Can sofa for Hay's 2016 collection
A library that spans a river and a 1970s building wrapped in terracotta panels are among the seven winning projects in the 2016 Library Building Awards from the American Institute of Architects (+ slideshow). More about AIA announces seven winners of library design awards
Milan 2016: designers swarmed on Milan's iconic Bar Basso last night for Dezeen's party with Lee Broom, and visitors posted their images of Nendo's popular 50 Manga Chairs installation. Click through to see more popular images from our #milanogram2016 tag on Instagram. More about Dezeen's #milanogram2016 highlights: day three
Milan 2016: British designer Tom Dixon has created a series of experimental kitchens using quartz surface material Caesarstone inside a deconsecrated 17th century church in Milan (+ slideshow). More about The Restaurant by Caesarstone and Tom Dixon opens in Milan's Rotonda della Besana church
OMA has unveiled plans for its first building in Tokyo – a glass skyscraper with an elevated garden, which will form part of an emerging business district in the Japanese city. More about OMA reveals design for first skyscraper in Tokyo
Milan 2016: Japanese studio Nendo has installed its collection of chairs influenced by comic books in the courtyard of a historic cloister in Milan (+ slideshow). More about Nendo presents 50 Manga Chairs in Milanese cloister courtyard
Tech giant Apple has been granted a patent for a keyboard that abandons traditional keys in favour of a "force-sensitive" sheet that could function like an oversized trackpad. More about Apple files patent for customisable keyless keyboard
Dezeen promotion: Czech glass brand Lasvit has restored four chandeliers crafted from Bohemian crystal which hang in the historic Palazzo Serbelloni in Milan (+ slideshow). More about Lasvit restores Bohemian crystal chandeliers in Milan's Palazzo Serbelloni
Bennetts Associates has extended a historic theatre in London's West End, adding a serrated box made from weathering steel on top of the roof (+ slideshow). More about Bennetts Associates adds pre-rusted steel box to London's Shaftesbury Theatre
Milan 2016: Italian furniture brand Gufram's 50 Years of Design Against the Tide exhibition shows classic products alongside more recent pieces by designers including Ross Lovegrove and Alessandro Mendini (+ slideshow). More about Gufram brings together old and new furniture for 50th anniversary exhibition
Thirteen gabled blocks come together to form this orange-toned events building in Saint-Louis, a French town on the outskirts of Basel (+ slideshow). More about Manuelle Gautrand divides exhibition centre into 13 orange-hued blocks
Rafael Moneo, the 1996 Pritzker Prize winner, has been tapped to design his first Miami project: a pair of upscale residential towers intended to revitalise the once-famous Jockey Club. More about Rafael Moneo designs luxury condo towers for the Miami waterfront
Milan 2016: interaction design students at Swiss university ÉCAL have used connected technologies and virtual reality to imagine possible future versions of everyday objects such as a toaster, a broom and a book (+ movie). More about ÉCAL students anticipate the future of familiar objects for Milan exhibition
Milan 2016: as part of the coloured glass trend in Milan this year, UK-based Kukka Studio's collection of side tables places pastel-hued panes alongside white quartz slabs. More about Kukka Studio's Spectra collection contrasts iridescent glass with white quartz
Milan 2016: coloured streamers erupt from the first-floor arches of a palazzo facade to create this undulating canopy designed by Beijing architecture studio MAD (+ slideshow). More about MAD stretches gradated ribbons from palazzo arcade for Invisible Border installation
Scalloped balconies create unusually shaped openings across the facades of these two apartment blocks completed by Tham & Videgård Arkitekter in southern Sweden (+ slideshow). More about Tham & Videgård creates rows of upside-down arches with Västra Kajen housing