Opinion: more and more design weeks take place around the world each year, but as brands flock in to woo designers, these are in danger of losing sight of their purpose, warns Lucas Verweij. More about "Marketing efforts surrounding design festivals create an oddly temporary gentrification"
Milan 2015: Swedish designer Markus Johansson used a full-size 3D-printed model to create the mould for this chair that looks like it was squeezed from a tube (+ slideshow). More about Markus Johansson creates fibreglass Loop Chair from a 3D-printed model
Snøhetta has unveiled plans to build a new kitchen for The French Laundry – a prestigious California restaurant that is often listed as one of the best in the world. More about Snøhetta designs a new kitchen for The French Laundry in Napa Valley
Dark grey bricks alternate between protruding and receding rows to give a ribbed texture to the facade of this family house near Brussels by Belgian studio Lezze (+ slideshow). More about Protruding brickwork gives a ribbed facade to Lezze's House VR in Belgium
Less than a fortnight after moving into its new Frank Gehry-designed California campus, Facebook has presented plans for two neighbouring office buildings by the Canadian architect. More about Facebook pushes ahead with plans for two new Gehry-designed buildings
Milan 2015: French designers Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec have used the ancient technique of iron forging to create frames for a range of chairs and tables (+ movie). More about Bouroullec brothers forge wrought-iron frames for Officina furniture
This house in the Utah desert is covered in sheets of rusty Corten steel to match the colour of the earth, while its four glazed gables are designed to take in views of the mountainous landscape (+ slideshow). More about Imbue Design completes a rusty steel dwelling in the Utah desert
Milan 2015: computer-controlled cutting was used to shape the curves of this solid wood chair by Made in Ratio founder Brodie Neill. More about Made in Ratio uses CNC cutting to create an A-shaped chair
Over three years after completing their first prefabricated dwelling, architects Mário Sousa and Marta Brandão have now installed modular homes all across Portugal. Their latest is a summerhouse in scenic Alentejo (+ slideshow). More about MIMA House in Alentejo is the latest in a series of prefabricated Portuguese homes
Crimson aluminium triangles hang above garments and in front of windows at Japanese designer Tokujin Yoshioka's latest store for Issey Miyake in Tokyo (+ slideshow). More about Tokujin Yoshioka installs giant red triangles for Tokyo Issey Miyake store
Comments update: is Richard Rogers right to gift his seminal Wimbledon home to the Harvard Graduate School of Design? Read on for more on this and other most-commented Dezeen stories this week. More about "Thanks for supporting British architecture schools, Richard"
Designer Marc Newson has created a series of 10 katana swords, modelled on the traditional weapons used by Japanese samurai warriors and each carrying a price tag of $300,000 (+ slideshow). More about Marc Newson designs limited-edition samurai sword
David Chipperfield has renounced his Città delle Culture museum and gallery complex in Milan after a "pathetic dispute" over the quality of flooring material used. More about David Chipperfield disowns Milan museum over "war of the floor"
Competition: Dezeen has teamed up with What Design Can Do to offer readers the chance to win one of five tickets to the annual design conference in Amsterdam. More about Competition: five tickets to What Design Can Do to be won
The upper storey of this home in the Lithuanian countryside is contained within a pointy shale-clad roof, while glazed walls provide woodland views for rooms on the ground floor (+ slideshow). More about Aketuri Architektai clads woodland house in Lithuania with shale tiles
Milan 2015: dark surfaces appear to be slipping off these glass furniture pieces by Japanese studio Nendo (+ slideshow). More about Nendo shifts shelves and surfaces for Slide glass furniture
The blackened timber walls of this family holiday home by WT Architecture are hidden within the shell of an old stone mill in the Scottish countryside (+ slideshow). More about Scottish holiday home by WT Architecture masquerades as an old stone mill
Royal College of Art student Axel Bluhme has developed an interactive drum machine that uses an analogue interface of spinning discs and magnets to combine digital sounds (+ movie). More about Axel Bluhme's drum machine triggers sounds using rotating discs of magnets
A facade divided into angled segments creates a sharp pattern of light and shadow across the front of this brick apartment building in Kuwait by local architecture firm Studio Toggle. More about Edges Apartments designed by Studio Toggle to resemble a pile of stacked blocks
Architecture studio Akoaki has created an angular aluminium pod called The Mothership, which contains a DJ booth for staging pop-up events and funk concerts in Detroit's North End neighbourhood (+ slideshow). More about The Mothership by Akoaki is a mobile DJ booth for playing funk on the streets of Detroit