Business news: Investindustrial, the Italian investment firm that last year bought a controlling stake in lighting brand Flos, has acquired a majority share of furniture company B&B Italia. More about Investindustrial adds B&B Italia to its growing portfolio of design brands
A network of columns and arches frame this toy shop and cafe inside a retail development in Beijing, referencing the mascot for the shopping centre – a dandelion seedling named Toby (+ movie). More about Dandelion-inspired columns create curved arches inside Beijing toy shop by Penda
Spanish designer Jorge Penadés has moulded together shredded leather and natural bone glue to create pieces of furniture (+ slideshow). More about Jorge Penadés creates furniture from waste leather
Raised up by a framework of slender steel supports, this wooden holiday home offers a unique vantage point over a Sri Lankan rubber plantation and the jungle beyond (+ slideshow). More about Treetop holiday home by Narein Perera stands between a rubber plantation and a jungle
NeoCon 2015: London studio PearsonLloyd's latest collection of office furniture includes a double seat where you can sit "as close as you can get to a co-worker without HR having to get involved" (+ slideshow). More about PearsonLloyd's office furniture for Teknion encourages workers to get more intimate
Sheets of fabric draped over rectangular wooden frames shrouded models during London designer Craig Green's Spring Summer 2016 menswear show. More about Craig Green constructs giant fabric veils for Spring Summer 2016 fashion collection
Zaha Hadid has designed her second set of skyscrapers for Australia – a pair of sinuous towers that will be constructed beside the harbour in Gold Coast, Queensland. More about Zaha Hadid proposes a pair of tapered towers for Australia's Gold Coast
Dezeen promotion: Dezeen has teamed up with London's Design Museum to give readers a 25 per cent discount on tickets for this year's Designs of the Year exhibition (+ slideshow). More about Dezeen readers receive 25 per cent off Designs of the Year exhibition tickets
Sandwiched between a shrine entrance and a farm in Japan's Shiga Prefecture, this family residence by Japanese architect Kouichi Kimura comprises metal-clad blocks that frame a courtyard (+ slideshow). More about Kouichi Kimura's Courtyard House wraps around a private terrace
French artist Didier Faustino is staging a month-long performance around Havana's Modernist School of Ballet, strapping a camera rig to a local resident who is exploring the ruins during the city's art biennial (+ slideshow). More about Didier Faustino captures Cuba's ruined School of Ballet using cage-mounted device
Thomas Heatherwick has reportedly been brought in to work on Google's new London headquarters after plans by architecture firm Allford Hall Monaghan Morris were deemed too boring. More about Google drafts in Thomas Heatherwick for delayed London HQ project
This London pavilion, designed to resemble a smattering of stars, casts reflections on a mirrored plate to operate like a giant sundial (+ slideshow). More about East London pavilion by Nonscale is designed to resemble a cluster of stars
It took just three and a half days to erect this temporary 6,000-square-metre structure in Mexico City's Zócalo plaza, because architecture studio MMX chose to build it from scaffolding and canvas (+ slideshow). More about MMX uses scaffolding and canvas to build a cluster of origami-like pavilions in Mexico City
This artists' home in Dalston has been updated with a yellow-framed kitchen extension in the back garden and a traditional glass and timber "shopfront". More about PriceGore adds a yellow-framed extension to an east-London artist's home
Designer Gadi Amit's San Francisco studio New Deal Design has created a device that enables users to stream music from the internet and play it through existing speakers in the house (+ slideshow). More about Gadi Amit's Beep device syncs to any speaker in the home
The concrete facade of this housing block in Lausanne, Switzerland, features four different surface finishes to create a patchwork effect that hints at the building's complicated internal layout (+ slideshow). More about 2b Architectes creates patchwork facade for concrete apartment block in Lausanne
These images by French photographer Francis Giacobetti of dancers wearing pleated Issey Miyake garments are on show at the Daikanyama T-site venue in Tokyo. More about Francis Giacobetti photographs leaping dancers wearing Issey Miyake's pleated garments
Thin sheets of brightly painted steel have been folded to create this origami-inspired canopy, designed to shelter a school playground in an Andalusian village from the sun and rain (+ slideshow). More about Julio Barreno Gutiérrez creates a folded-steel shelter for a school playground
Graduate shows 2015: garments distorted with wire rods and shoes made of sponge were among items that stole the show at this year's London College of Fashion graduate presentation, according to Dezeen's Dan Howarth. More about Dezeen's top four collections from this year's London College of Fashion graduates
The two elongated wings that make up this extension to an Australian farmhouse are set into the side of a hill, connected by a stairwell that offer views straight through its middle (+ slideshow). More about Honeyman + Smith Architects adds a hillside-hugging extension to an Australian farmhouse