The architecture college at Washington University in St Louis has announced it plans to prohibit students from using styrene in their models, citing health risks related to the chemical that is used to make foam boards. More about US architecture school intends to ban use of styrene in model-making
Towering oak trees surround this addition to a family residence in Sardinia, which is raised up on concrete feet to minimise its impact on the wild landscape (+ slideshow). More about Officina29 Architetti builds garden living room without cutting down any trees
Milan 2016: Italian furniture brand Magis has launched furniture and accessories by designers Konstantin Grcic, the Bouroullec brothers and Jerszy Seymour in Milan to mark the company's 40th anniversary (+ slideshow). More about Magis celebrates 40th anniversary with Milan furniture and accessory launches
Vietnamese studio HA has completed a monastery-inspired home for a Buddhist family, featuring concrete-brick walls that are animated by patterns of light and shadow (+ slideshow). More about Zen House is a home for three Buddhists organised around a light-filled atrium
Milan 2016: this cordless lamp generates its own electricity from bio ethanol, creating enough power to additionally charge a smartphone. More about Candela light by Francisco Gomez Paz combines eco-friendly fuel with LEDs and a phone charger
The late Zaha Hadid's designs for a spiralling car park and public plaza in Miami have been rejected by city officials, five years after the architect was hired for the project. More about Zaha Hadid's car park project in Miami Beach will not get built
Pritzker Prize-winning architect Philip Johnson was an impassioned supporter of Nazism, in which he found a "new international ideal", according to a new book by American journalist Marc Wortman. More about Architect Philip Johnson's Nazi past detailed in new book
British artist Cornelia Parker has created an installation based on the mansion from Alfred Hitchcock's film Psycho for this year's Roof Garden commission at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York (+ slideshow). More about Cornelia Parker installs Hitchcock-influenced PsychoBarn on Met museum rooftop
Milan 2016: product design students at Swiss university ÉCAL have collaborated with technology brand Punkt to make basic household electronics, such as a radio and a power plug, more intuitive (+ slideshow). More about ÉCAL students and Punkt update and simplify everyday electronic items
Milan 2016: Dutch designer Hella Jongerius has arranged pieces of Vitra furniture by shade to create a rainbow-hued installation displaying the brand's colour and material library (+ slideshow). More about Hella Jongerius creates Colour Machine installation inside CasaVitra
Red cedar provides a golden-hued exterior for this small gabled house, designed by local studio Atelier Kukka for a Tokyo street featuring a Japanese cherry tree (+ slideshow). More about Atelier Kukka's House U is designed to frame a nearby cherry tree in Tokyo
Dezeen promotion: Sydney invites artists and designers to submit concepts for its city-wide Christmas decorations, including lighting, large-scale outdoor installations and a tree in Martin Place (+ slideshow). More about Sydney calls for artists and designers to submit ideas for city Christmas lights
This clifftop holiday home by British designer John Pawson presents white windowless facades to its guests, but at the rear large windows and a roof terrace face towards the sea (+ slideshow). More about John Pawson completes bright white holiday home on Japan's Okinawa island
Architect Joshua Florquin has used wooden panels to create angular furniture elements inside a doctor's surgery in Belgium, ranging from a multi-level reception desk to a series of boxy cubby holes (+ slideshow). More about Joshua Florquin uses angular joinery to create bespoke furnishings for doctor's surgery
Milan 2016: Dutch designers Kiki van Eijk and Joost van Bleiswijk's Physical exhibition showcases five new collections, including furniture that looks like drawings and products bolted together like Meccano (+ slideshow). More about Kiki van Eijk and Joost van Bleiswijk present line-drawn design at Physical exhibition
This patterned glass staircase forms the centrepiece of an apartment in Hong Kong, and leads up through a skylight to a roof terrace overlooking the bay (+ slideshow). More about Carpenter Lowings adds printed glass staircase to Hong Kong apartment
Pre-rusted steel pyramids protrude down from the ceiling of this glazed office building, which Japanese studio NTA designed for a construction company in Chiba Prefecture (+ slideshow). More about NTA completes office in Japan with a faceted weathering-steel roof structure
Milan 2016: design duo GamFratesi has filled the main space in the Circolo Filologico Milanese with an installation featuring spinning carpet-covered podiums for an exhibition of Danish design (+ slideshow). More about GamFratesi installs spinning podiums in philology institute for Mindcraft Danish design exhibition
Hudson Architects has transformed a heritage-listed building in eastern England into an architecture school, featuring a staircase that references an ornately patterned original balustrade (+ slideshow). More about Hudson Architects installs decorative staircase inside new Norwich architecture school
This wooden stool designed for Bosnian brand Zanat by Swedish architects office Wingårdhs has been "tattooed" with hand-chiselled carvings. More about Wingårdhs decorates Tattoo stools using UNESCO-listed wood carving technique