Swedish car manufacturer Volvo has created a light-reflective spray designed to enhance the visibility of cyclists on city streets after dark (+ movie). More about Volvo's reflective Life Paint turns bicycles and clothes into high-visibility objects
Milan 2015: Milan's furniture fair has become a celebration of marketing over design and has helped feed the public perception of design as a superficial discipline, according to design critic Alice Rawsthorn. More about Salone del Mobile presents design as a "superficial stylistic tool" says Alice Rawsthorn
Dezeen promotion: Italian brand Ceramiche Refin has unveiled a new collection of porcelain tiles influenced by industrial architecture and urban infrastructure. More about Ceramiche Refin launches tile collection based on urban surfaces
This family home near Milan features a partially exposed steel and timber frame modelled on the historical rural farm buildings in the surrounding area. More about Paolo Carlesso clads Italian family house with cement panels
Milan 2015: London designer Lee Broom will transform a street of disused shops into a fake department store to present 20 new products in Milan next month. More about Lee Broom to create pastiche department store inside empty shops for Milan exhibition
A tall white wall wraps around the base of this house in Tsukuba City, Japan, screening it from the street and creating the illusion of a triple-level structure (+ slideshow). More about Japanese house hides a balcony and terrace behind tiered walls
Photo essay: New York photographer Richard Silver travels the world shooting well-known buildings over the course of a single sunset and splicing the pictures together to create a single image – a technique he describes as slicing time. More about Richard Silver splices images of iconic buildings to show the passing of time
Brazilian designer Bianca Cheng Costanzo has created a woollen blanket from 180 triangles hand-sewn into tessellated pyramids (+ slideshow). More about Wool pyramids form origami-inspired Bloom blanket
The bell tower of this monastery on the outskirts of Valencia features a ridged surface with a cross-shaped cut-out to indicate the buildings' use to passers by (+ slideshow). More about Hernández Arquitectos' minimal white monastery features a concrete-clad bell tower
Milan 2015: London designer Philippe Malouin has formed a collection of geometric planters in a range of shapes, textures and colours using quartz surface material Caesarstone. More about Philippe Malouin experiments with Caesarstone to create collection of planters
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An apartment, community space and shop are accommodated in this skinny building squeezed onto a narrow plot in the South Korean city of Busan by local office JMY Architects (+ slideshow). More about JMY Architects combines living and retail spaces on a narrow site in Busan
Australian animator Felix Colgrave's music video for Fever the Ghost follows a cartoon man and his pet serpent who turn their home planet into a giant disco ball (+ movie). More about Cartoon characters perform a disco ritual in Fever the Ghost's Source music video
A sloped section of roof joins this timber-clad extension by Melbourne studio Julie Firkin Architects to the adjacent weatherboard house (+ slideshow). More about Triangular void connects a two-storey timber extension to a Melbourne bungalow
The jagged roof of this warehouse and office space in the Netherlands is designed to reference a 1950s weaving mill by Dutch architect and designer Gerrit Rietveld (+ slideshow). More about Office with a sawtooth roof pays homage to a Dutch mill by Gerrit Rietveld
Spanish design studio Yonoh has created a chair based on energy company Repsol's red, orange and white "sun" logo. More about Yonoh turns energy company logo into a chair
Dark brick cladding contrasts with the pale wood and plasterboard interior of this house in Oslo by local architecture office Narud Stokke Wiig (+ slideshow). More about Villa Wot is a brick cuboid punctured by different-sized windows
This week we reported on the production of Ikea's flat-pack refugee shelters, the design of this year's Serpentine Gallery Pavilion (pictured) and plans for Europe's tallest skyscraper in the Alps. Read on to catch up with the latest architecture and design news, plus our track of the week. More about This week on Dezeen
Visitors to a park in Xiangyang are greeted by over 500 bright purple fins, which are dotted with LEDs and play traditional Chinese music from internal speakers (+ slideshow). More about Penda creates landscape of purple pillars for audio-visual installation in a Chinese park