Rammed earth is often celebrated as a low-carbon method of constructing buildings, but some experts are beginning to cast doubt on its sustainability credentials. Amy Peacock reports. More about Cement-based rammed earth "not much better than concrete"
Swedish maker Love Hultén has collaborated with the country's Way Out West music festival to create the Future Fan Stage for an audience of sperm and eggs awaiting IVF. More about Love Hultén creates tiny music stage for crowd of sperm and eggs
Dezeen and Bentley have partnered for the second year running to launch a global competition calling for pioneering proposals that could have a powerful impact on how people live over the next 100 years. More about Bentley and Dezeen launch Start Something Powerful Competition
A display unit wrapped in burgundy-coloured leather forms the centrepiece of this apartment-style showroom in Milan, designed by local firm Eligo Studio for Italian winemaker Masciarelli Tenute Agricole. More about Eligo Studio creates homely Milan showroom for winemaker Masciarelli
The latest edition of our Dezeen Debate newsletter features a wooden house in Estonia. Subscribe to Dezeen Debate now. More about Dezeen Debate features a "deliciously sophisticated" house in Estonia
Streaming service Netflix has announced Netflix House, an immersive retail, food, and entertainment experience based on popular series to be located in malls in Texas and Pennsylvania. More about Netflix to create "immersive experiences" in US malls
Dezeen School Shows: a project exploring the impact of climate change on coral and the biodiversity of marine life is included in Dezeen's latest school show by New Designers. More about Ten design projects by students taking part in New Designers
Global furniture brand Haworth showcased furniture designs by Bill Carroll, Common Object and Sam Klemick at their Chicago showroom during NeoCon 2024 as revealed in this reel created for the brand by Dezeen. More about Haworth debuts furniture designed for a circular economy at NeoCon 2024
Finnish studio AOR Architects has completed the Monio School and Cultural Centre in Hyrylä, using over 5,000 industrial timber logs to create a structure that references the area's traditional wooden villas. More about AOR Architects creates Finnish school from timber logs
Designer Harry Nuriev of Crosby Studios has transformed India Mahdavi's Paris gallery into a silver-coloured space where visitors can play table tennis in the lead-up to the 2024 Olympic Games. More about India Mahdavi and Crosby Studios create reflective ping pong parlour in Paris
Women sick of feeling unsafe in their cities may need to consider disruption as a means of effecting change, writes Helen Parton. More about "Design can do more to reduce the built environment's capacity for enabling misogyny"
Set designers Shirin Naveed, Shankho Chaudhuri and Esha Sikander created a mini-nightclub for this year's Glastonbury festival that only played music from South Asian artists. More about Pulp sci-fi and tropical modernism inform Glastonbury's first dedicated South Asian stage
There is just one week left to save 20 per cent on entry fees for Dezeen Awards China 2024 in partnership with Bentley! More about One week left to save 20 per cent on your Dezeen Awards China entry
Designer Bunny Christie created an ambiguous, white-tiled structure that could be a swimming pool, the inside of a TV or a jumbo pill as the set for the play People, Places and Things, which tells the story of a recovering addict. More about Bunny Christie's People, Places and Things set symbolises protagonist's "dislocation with reality"
Domestico Estudio has arranged a double-gabled house clad in grey bricks in a way that preserves the surrounding forest in Hidalgo, Mexico. More about Domestico Estudio clads house with grey brick in Mexican forest
US architecture studios Olin and Overland have completed the "world's first net-positive energy" botanical garden in Florida, which is powered by a rooftop array of 2,158 solar panels. More about "World's first net-positive energy" botanical garden completed in Florida
Dezeen School Shows: a collection of accessories crafted from reclaimed materials that explores body image is included in this school show by Lucerne School of Design, Film and Art. More about Lucerne School of Design, Film and Art presents 15 textile design student projects
Promotion: interior architect Shalini Misra has announced the inaugural and free-to-enter Shakti Design Residency, a month-long creative programme in India with a strong emphasis on craft. More about Shakti Design Residency will connect emerging designers with "artisanal" Indian practices
A series of intersecting blocks and voids form House of Courtyards, which Indian practice Studio VDGA has added to a neighbourhood in Dubai. More about Studio VDGA arranges blocky Dubai home around sequence of courtyards
An elevated, winding walkway guides visitors through Park of Memories, a former graveyard in Aš, Czech Republic, renovated by local studio SOA Architekti. More about SOA Architekti transforms former graveyard into public park in Czech Republic