An urn made from soy wax, jewellery used to eat food and a sculptural chair made from bacteria and recycled bricks were among 15 product designs shown at Designblok's Diploma Selection exhibition. More about Biocement chair and wax urn among top graduate projects at Designblok
Design agency Kinetic Singapore presented projects highlighting issues such as pollution and climate change by creating a fictional school for Singapore Design Week. More about School of Tomorrow exhibition addresses climate crisis in playful classroom setting
Mexican studio TO Arquitectura has worked with the local community to create a music school that features a vault made from recycled and donated masonry in Mexico City. More about TO Arquitectura creates vaulted Mexico City music school from reclaimed masonry
Manhattan's first "public beachfront" and a salt marsh feature at Gansevoort Peninsula on the Hudson River, which was designed by local landscape studio Field Operations to serve as a buffer against rising tides. More about Field Operations' Gansevoort Peninsula designed to "help prepare" New York for climate change
Dezeen Showroom: Danish brand Eilersen has released three new multicoloured variants of its Cocoon sofa, including a Bauhaus edition that plays with primary colours and geometric forms. More about Cocoon sofa by Jens Juul Eilersen for Eilersen
Indian studio Architecture Brio has created a holiday home topped with two gabled, timber structures perched on a hillside overlooking Mumbai Bay in India. More about Architecture Brio creates holiday home with "strong presence" on hillside above Mumbai Bay
Dezeen has announced the design shortlist for this year's Dezeen Awards, which includes designs by Muoto, Luceplan, Fuseproject and Tom Dixon. More about World's 47 most outstanding designs shortlisted for Dezeen Awards 2023
Presented at this year's Designblok festival in Prague, Cake Houses is a modular home concept that allows clients to design bespoke homes via an online configurator. More about Cake Houses is an "architectural recipe" to create wooden homes in the Czech Republic
In this week's comments update, readers are discussing renders of a supertall skyscraper designed by UK studio Zaha Hadid Architects for the Trojena ski resort at Neom in Saudi Arabia. More about "It looks horrendous in that beautiful mountain background" says commenter
Dezeen Showroom: French designer Inga Sempé aimed to break with the current trend of industrial kitchen units in her "warm and different" Column kitchens for Danish brand Reform. More about Column kitchen by Inga Sempé for Reform
British designer Thomas Heatherwick has taken aim at the "cult of modernist architecture" in a new BBC radio series. More about Le Corbusier responsible for architecture's "global blandemic" says Thomas Heatherwick
Designers and architects must start taking human-rights violations in the supply chain more seriously, writes Talia Radford. More about "Our built environment embodies violations against human beings"
Global design director and partner at Henning Larsen Jacob Kurek explains how artificial intelligence has changed the practice as part of Dezeen Jobs: How We Recruit Series. More about "There are multiple doors of opportunity you can walk through to become part of Henning Larsen"
Pakistani architect Yasmeen Lari has said the RIBA was "brave" to award her the Royal Gold Medal earlier this year. More about RIBA Royal Gold Medal award was "brave move" says Yasmeen Lari
Promotion: according to experts at a panel discussion hosted by Finnish bioeconomy company UPM at Central Saint Martins, brands need to transform their business models in order to reach a fossil-free future. More about UPM and Central Saint Martins address fossil-free future in panel discussion and student exhibition
London agency Blond has designed Edge Slick, a comb-style device for styling hair with a reusable handle that doubles as a hands-free applicator for hair gel. More about Blond design agency creates "first refillable" edge styler for hair brand Ruka
New York-based glass artist Dana Arbib has exhibited a series of hand-blown vessels and wall sconces from Murano glass that were informed by gourds, brassicas and root vegetables. More about Dana Arbib shows colourful glassware informed by root vegetables for New York exhibition
The latest edition of our weekly Dezeen Agenda newsletter features the opening of MSG Sphere Las Vegas, the world's largest spherical structure. Subscribe to Dezeen Agenda now. More about Dezeen Agenda features MSG Sphere Las Vegas opening
American studio Marc Thorpe Design has completed a wood-clad, off-grid cabin for himself in New York that is meant to be "minimal in design but purposeful". More about Marc Thorpe aims for "architecture of responsibility" in solar-powered Catskills house
Dezeen School Shows: Dezeen's latest school show presents seven architecture projects by students at YACademy in Bologna, Italy, which propose new pediatric clinics for a remote village in Senegal. More about YACademy architecture students design conceptual pediatric clinics