Kyoto's historic townhouses, machiyas, are increasingly being renovated and turned into everything from hotels to perfume stores. Here, we collect five of the best examples. More about Five carefully renovated machiya houses in Kyoto
Studio Hagen Hall has modernised a Georgian terraced house in north London, using a pared-back material palette including smoked-oak joinery to create atmospheric spaces informed by Japanese architecture. More about Studio Hagen Hall explores Japanese and modernist design ideas at renovated Heion House
Spanish architect Laura Vela Lasagabaster and designer Manu Bañó have used copper as an accent material inside a luxury concept store Colima 162 in Mexico City's Roma Norte neighbourhood. More about Recycled-copper elements accent "purist interior design" of Mexico City fashion boutique
Dezeen School Shows: a fashion collection taking cues the from Blue Zone philosophy, using natural materials and sustainable methods to emphasise wellbeing, is among the projects from IE University. More about Fashion collection informed by Blue Zone philosophy among projects from IE University
Danish architecture studios Arcgency and MAST have completed Bedding 1 in Copenhagen, a floating community space and guesthouse that is moored alongside the artificial island of Christiansholm. More about Floating community space in Copenhagen by Arcgency and MAST "makes water an active part of everyday life"
As countries drag their heels on adopting right to repair legislation, designers are forging ahead and reimagining some of our most used products – from sofas to whole electric cars – so they can be fixed by anyone. More about Five everyday products that are leading the self-repair revolution
We've rounded up five positions based in the US listed on Dezeen Jobs, including roles at Yale School of Architecture, L'Observatoire International and Sogni Di Cristallo. More about Five US-based vacancies featured on Dezeen Jobs
This week on Dezeen, Swedish furniture brand IKEA unveiled the new edition of its experimental PS collection, which includes a blow-up armchair and a wooden rocking bench. More about This week IKEA launched its playful PS collection
Promotion: artist Jeff Koons has turned his iconic Balloon Dog sculpture into vibrantly coloured functional objects as part of a limited-edition collaboration with French design brand Lexon. More about Jeff Koons and Lexon create colourful evolution of Balloon Dog lamp and speaker
A geodesic dome in Vancouver, originally built for the Expo 86 World's Fair, is currently being covered with hundreds of panels to create a giant version of the World Cup's Trionda match ball for the upcoming competition. More about Vancouver's Science World dome is being covered in soccer ball motif for World Cup
Dezeen Showroom: perfume bottle-informed tapware and an extractor fan controlled using physical dials are among recent kitchen and bathroom products listed on Dezeen Showroom. More about Ten products that make for design-forward bathrooms and kitchens
New York studio Khanna Schultz has taken cues from Japanese architecture to create a "net-positive-energy" house in the Hamptons, New York, which features dark wood cladding and a large rooftop solar array. More about Khanna Schultz infuses House in Amagansett with "atmosphere of quiet contemplation"
Infrastructure firm O'Leary Digital has exclusively revealed the first images of the Stratos Hyperscale Data Center in Box Elder County, Utah, which is being designed by architecture studio Gensler as one of the largest data centres in the world. More about First images of Gensler-designed 60-building data centre development in Utah revealed
Shiny panels envelop the spiralling structure of the Hainan Science Museum, which has been completed by architecture studio MAD in Haikou, China. More about MAD clads bulbous science museum with silver-toned polymer panels in China
Players pick between ordering a Diet Coke or declaring war on Iran in a video game created by artist collective The Secret Handshake, accusing President Donald Trump of treating the deadly conflict as if it were a game. More about Retro arcade game parodying Trump's "insane undeclared war" on Iran appears in Washington DC
Italian studio Stefano Boeri Architetti has unveiled its design for the Ambrosian Monastery in Milan, which will feature a sleek roof that shelters cloisters and lifts into a sail-like form over the church altar. More about Stefano Boeri Architetti unveils design for Milan monastery with sail-like roof
In the latest episode of Dezeen Weekly, we give listeners a crash course in parametricism, from its origins to its much-disputed claim of being the most significant architectural style since modernism. More about Is parametricism the defining architecture style of the 21st century?
In this week's comments update, readers are discussing the completion of Ray Phoenix by California studio Johnston Marklee in partnership with Lamar Johnson Collaborative. More about "An attractive, well built thing. I approve" says commenter
Designers shouldn't worry about their ideas being stolen by AI since they have already lost control of their intellectual property to social media platforms, Tom Dixon has said at the Global Design Forum in Istanbul. More about Designers have "signed away all of our ideas" to Instagram says Tom Dixon
Japanese studio Keiji Ashizawa Design has created the Toune holiday home in a 120-year-old machiya, preserving its original layout and the "sense of time embedded within the building" while giving it a contemporary update. More about Keiji Ashizawa creates holiday home within historic machiya