This ceiling-mounted installation by Italian architect Carlo Ratti uses motion tracking to direct personalised "clouds" of water vapour at anyone walking beneath. More about Carlo Ratti's Cloud Cast directs a cooling mist over passersby
News: the UK has unveiled a self-driving "pod" and announced regulations for testing automated vehicles on British roads later this year. More about UK launches answer to Google's driverless cars
Stockholm studio Form Us With Love has designed and curated an exhibition at the city's Spritmuseum dedicated to the culture of making and drinking beer (+ slideshow). More about Form Us With Love hops onto craft beer trend with laboratory-inspired exhibition
Business news: luxury brand B&B Italia could be sold to a major American furniture group, Dezeen understands. More about B&B Italia in takeover talks with American suitor
News: Australian police have seized weapons created on a 3D printer while raiding a property in Gold Coast, Queensland. More about 3D-printed weapons found during Australian police raid
News: Brian MacKay-Lyons has been selected for Canada's most prestigious architecture award thanks to his "pure, dignified, poetic and beautiful" projects (+ slideshow). More about Brian MacKay-Lyons wins 2015 RAIC Gold Medal
News: the jury tasked with selecting the design for a new hotel adjacent to Peter Zumthor's Therme Vals spa in Switzerland has "dissociated itself" with the client's decision to appoint Los Angeles firm Morphosis. More about Jury distances itself from Morphosis appointment for Vals hotel
News: architecture studio SO-IL's installation for the New York architecture gallery has been vandalised within weeks of opening – but the firm's co-founder says he "knew" it would be a target for graffiti. More about SO-IL's Storefront gallery installation vandalised with "poor quality" graffiti
Homeware retailer Made.com has opened a showroom in London's Soho, featuring a shopfront based on a pin-art toy and a series of domestic sets combined with full-scale video projections (+ slideshow). More about Bureau de Change combines furniture with digital projections for second Made.com showroom
Snøhetta has renovated a Brooklyn warehouse to create a studio for Cuban-American artist José Parlá, whose murals adorn the lobbies of One World Trade Center and the Barclays Center (+ slideshow). More about Brooklyn warehouse overhauled by Snøhetta to create art studio for painter José Parlá
Oslo design studio Anderssen & Voll has designed a watering can with a long, precise spout and plant pots especially for cacti and herbs, as part of a collection of tools for indoor gardening (+ slideshow). More about Anderssen & Voll creates a collection of tools for indoor gardening
Tall red brick walls with softly scooped outlines frame the passageway that leads guests to their rooms, at this hotel in Thailand by architecture studio Onion (+ slideshow). More about Fluted brick walls frame scalloped views of the sky above Thai hotel by Onion
Maison&Objet 2015: Copenhagen designers Aleksej Iskos and Boris Berlin have created an injection-moulded wood-fibre composite chair that is 100 per cent recyclable for Danish design brand Muuto (+ slideshow). More about Iskos-Berlin updates the plastic shell chair with recyclable equivalent
Royal College of Art student Paul Gong has imagined how synthetic biology could be used to modify the human body so it can consume and digest rotten food. More about Rotten food becomes palatable in human-hyena synthetic biology scenario
Dezeen promotion: the programme of talks, conferences and exhibitions for this month's Munich Creative Business Week is now available to view on the event's website. More about Munich Creative Business Week 2015 announces events programme
Business news: Berlin-based retailer Monoqi has acquired the assets of former online furniture marketplace Mydeco to help its expansion into the UK market. More about Monoqi buys Mydeco to extend UK reach
Comments update: readers were quick to pass judgement on Frank Gehry's newly opened business school in Sydney this week, which had been described as "the most beautiful squashed brown paper bag". More about "Like it or not, it's an impressive feat to build a paper bag out of bricks"
News: 40 projects have been shortlisted for the European Union's 2015 architecture prize – the Mies van der Rohe Award – including a woodland crematorium in Sweden and a rowing centre in a Portuguese wine region (+ slideshow). More about Mies van der Rohe Award 2015 shortlist announced
Evergreen foliage is printed onto the vinyl facade of this cabin on a Swedish island by Murman Arkitekter to create the illusion of a mirror reflecting the natural surroundings (+ slideshow). More about Swedish holiday home by Murman Arkitekter pretends to mirror a juniper grove
Business news: furniture brand Hem has acquired the rights to over 200 products from Italian design company Discipline (+ slideshow). More about Hem acquires Discipline products to expand furniture and homeware range