Promotion: global design awards organisation iF Design based in Germany is calling international brands and designers to submit their best projects to the iF Design Award 2024. More about Call for entries to the iF Design Award 2024
Architecture practice BABELstudio has completed Aralar Cottage, a black wooden cabin in the Basque Country with a hinged side that opens the interior to the surrounding forest. More about BABELstudio creates "archetypal" woodland cabin in the Basque Country
At Designart Tokyo, Japanese design collective Honoka exhibited furniture and lighting made by 3D printing a material made from discarded Tatami mats. More about Honoka 3D-prints furniture that "re-weaves Tatami into modern life"
The results of The Pay 100's second annual anonymous salary survey suggest an increase in average salaries at the UK's leading studios but significant reported levels of unpaid overtime. More about The Pay 100 reveals "clear increase" in architecture salaries along with "systemic unpaid overtime"
Creative director and founder of Natural Material Studio Bonnie Hvillum has been shortlisted for The Bentley Lighthouse Award. Here, she selects five projects that best reflect her work. More about Five key projects by Bentley Lighthouse Award nominee Bonnie Hvillum
Continuing our Designing for Disaster series, we spotlight Climate Safe Rooms, an initiative that insulates one room in a home as a cost-effective way of preparing low-income homes in Australia for extreme heat. More about Climate Safe Rooms retrofits Australian homes to protect vulnerable residents in extreme temperatures
Stockholm design studio Crème Atelier has created the Soft Serve lamp, which is 3D-printed to resemble "swirly ice cream" and comes in sorbet colours. More about Crème Atelier designs Soft Serve light informed by meringue and ice cream
Textile company Bananatex has developed a biodegradable lightweight jersey fabric by extracting fibres from the stalks of Abacá banana plants. More about Bananatex produces compostable jersey made from Abacá banana plants
Promotion: Mexican artist Fernando Laposse aims to honour French champagne house Perrier-Jouët's heritage in an installation at Design Miami made up of 3D-printed animals and flowers. More about Fernando Laposse and Perrier-Jouët collaborate on floral installation for Design Miami
Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Felicita Gāga has turned the practice of doomscrolling into a digital outfit. More about Felicita Gāga designs digital dress "made of social media noise"
Dezeen Courses: we've rounded up six short courses that intend to enhance proficiency in design software, including Adobe Creative Suite, Grasshopper, Rhino and SketchUp. More about Six short courses on design software on Dezeen Courses
US architecture practice StudioSC teamed up with Colombian studio Base Taller to design a triangular concrete commercial office building in Medellín, Colombia. More about StudioSC and Base Taller create concrete office building on steep Colombia site
The latest edition of our Dezeen Debate newsletter features Vruit, a set of sex toys designed for self-insemination. Subscribe to Dezeen Debate now. More about Dezeen Debate features "innovative" vibrator that doubles as artificial insemination device
Danish architecture practice 3XN has been selected to create a stepped retail building located along Baltimore's Inner Harbor informed by sailboats. More about 3XN to create stepped building for Baltimore's Inner Harbor
Dezeen School Shows: a youth hostel built on a former car park in New Orleans is included in Dezeen's latest school show by students at Tulane University in Louisiana. More about Nine architecture, preservation and development projects by students at Tulane University
Promotion: technology brand HP has expanded its DesignJet plotter printer series with the addition of three 36-inch models suitable for office or home use. More about HP launches three DesignJet plotters made from recycled materials
Scottish architecture studio Loader Monteith has designed an office with a gabled roof, along with two private residences, for mountain bike tour operator H&I Adventures on a sloping brownfield site in Scotland. More about Loader Monteith adds charred-timber-clad office to brownfield site in Inverness
A castle-like house by London studio Denizen Works that is vying for the RIAS Andrew Doolan Best Building in Scotland Award is the focus of this video, produced by Stephenson&. More about Hundred Acre Wood house resembles object "eroded by the weather"
Architecture studio Foster + Partners has revealed a masterplan for an urban centre near Hangzhou in China, which will be based around a skyscraper-flanked spine.
More about Foster + Partners unveils design for Hangzhou centre around "leafy spine"
Embassies designed for the United States by Walter Gropius and Eero Saarinen feature in this roundup based on David B Peterson's book US Embassies of the Cold War: The Architecture of Democracy, Diplomacy and Defense. More about Ten Cold War US embassies that embody America's 20th-century "victorious exuberance"