News: a map that illustrates global forest densities using wood textures has won a competition to reinvent the tessellated world map designed 70 years ago by American architect and visionary designer R. Buckminster Fuller (+ slideshow). More about Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion world map redesigned
Offset gabled volumes form a new classroom and play area at this infant school in Oxfordshire, England, by local firm Jessop and Cook Architects (+ slideshow). More about St Mary's Infant School by Jessop and Cook Architects
Richard Rogers reflects on his 50-year career and says that architects today must be careful to protect the public domain in the final movie in our series of exclusive interviews with the eminent British architect. More about "Today is much more an age of greed" says Richard Rogers
Playground swings can be hung both inside and outside this Japanese house with a corner sliced off by Level Architects, the firm that previously completed a residence with a slide connecting its floors (+ slideshow). More about House in Ofuna by Level Architects
Product news: these angular lounge chairs and ottomans by Brisbane designer Alexander Lotersztain can be tessellated in an endless array of shapes and patterns. More about Prisma by Alexander Lotersztain for Derlot Editions
In this movie we filmed at Domaine de Boisbuchet in southwestern France last month, design curator and collector Alexander von Vegesack gives us a tour round the estate, which features pavilions including Shigeru Ban's first permanent building in Europe, pioneering bamboo structures by Simón Vélez and experimental domes by German structural engineer Jörg Schlaich. More about "Shigeru Ban's first building in Europe is here"
Dezeen promotion: new British shelving design and manufacturing company ON&ON will launch at Design Junction during the London Design Festival in September. More about ON&ON shelving systems to launch at Design Junction
German photographer Roland Halbe has taken new photographs of Casa Klotz, a rural beach house in Chile by architect Mathias Klotz (+ slideshow). More about Casa Klotz by Mathias Klotz photographed by Roland Halbe
Here are two new images of Zaha Hadid Architects' proposed 215-metre-high residential skyscraper for Miami. More about One Thousand Museum by Zaha Hadid Architects
A staircase folds around a double-height bookcase inside this wooden family house in Fukuoka, Japan, by local architects MOVEDESIGN (+ slideshow). More about House in Nanakuma by MOVEDESIGN
Product news: Berlin studio Halb/Halb has created a creased circular mirror that allows two people to see their reflection at the same time. More about Mirror #180 by Halb/Halb
News: the Cardboard Cathedral designed by Japanese architect Shigeru Ban opens to the public today in Christchurch, New Zealand. More about Shigeru Ban completes Cardboard Cathedral in Christchurch
Spiny translucent 3D-printed collars were paired with magnetic dresses and shoes that looks like tree roots in Dutch fashion designer Iris van Herpen's latest haute couture collection. More about Wilderness Embodied by Iris van Herpen
A perforated concrete wall screens the courtyard of this Singapore house by Formwerkz Architects from low sun and prying neighbours (+ slideshow). More about Courtyard House by Formwerkz Architects
One level of this London boutique designed by Studio Toogood is bright and minimal, while the other looks like a dark nightclub. More about Browns Focus by Studio Toogood
Italian lighting brand Slamp worked with designer Nigel Coates to create a cardboard house for displaying the company's range of lights. More about Casa Slamp by Nigel Coates
Portuguese architect Eduardo Souto de Moura has completed a cultural centre in Viana do Castelo, Portugal, which is designed to look more like a machine than a building (+ slideshow). More about Cultural Centre of Viana do Castelo by Eduardo Souto de Moura
Italian architect Antonino Cardillo used roughly textured plaster to create lumpy brown surfaces across the upper walls and ceilings of this apartment in Rome (+ slideshow). More about House of Dust by Antonino Cardillo
In the next movie in our series focussing on the work of Richard Rogers, the British architect talks exclusively to Dezeen about the challenges of designing an interesting office building and explains how the new Leadenhall building in London, dubbed "the Cheesegrater", got its distinctive shape. More about "Office buildings tend to be very boring" says Richard Rogers
This collection of 3D-printed jewellery by Royal College of Art student Dorry Hsu was inspired by the designer's own fear of insects. More about The Aesthetic of Fears by Dorry Hsu