The Maldives has partnered with architecture studio Waterstudio to create a brain-shaped floating city that will house 20,000 people in a lagoon near the country's capital. More about Maldives reveals "world's first true floating island city" to cope with rising sea levels
Following a proposal by MIT to create climate-change-fighting bubbles, here is a roundup of 10 inventions aimed at limiting the impact of architecture and design on our environment. More about Ten scientific inventions to reduce design and architecture's impact on the planet
Social media brand Meta has announced plans to launch its Avatars Store, where users of its social media platforms can dress digital avatars in Balenciaga, Prada and Thom Browne clothing. More about Meta launches store selling digital Prada and Balenciaga clothing for avatars
Dezeen Showroom: a wooden chair originally designed by Børge Mogensen in 1947 under the influence of the Shaker movement is among 13 new products on Dezeen Showroom. More about J39 Mogensen chair by Fredericia among new products on Dezeen Showroom
Subtle references to the experience of taking magic mushrooms are incorporated into the branding and packaging that Brooklyn studio Dark Igloo has designed for psilocybin dispensary PLANT. More about Dark Igloo rebrands magic mushrooms with "trustworthy" identity for PLANT dispensary
Dezeen School Shows: a healing retreat and a lamp that rewards self-discipline and time offline are included in Dezeen's latest school show by students at Istituto Marangoni London. More about Istituto Marangoni London presents 10 student design projects
Colorado studio Land Ark has unveiled a metal-clad, mobile dwelling that is meant to serve as a "comfortable backyard office or guest room". More about Land Ark wraps compact Quatro mobile dwelling in black steel
Dezeen School Shows: a memorial site at the port of Beirut and a vertically sprawling design in the metaverse are included in Dezeen's latest school show by students at Tulane University. More about Tulane University spotlights ten student architecture projects
A gallery clad in translucent marble creates a beacon atop the National Museum of Norway, which architecture studio Kleihues + Schuwerk has completed in Oslo. More about National Museum of Norway by Kleihues + Schuwerk is a "temple of our time"
From an artist's studio in Devon to a coffee bar in a Beijing hutong, this lookbook rounds up ten interiors with tactile walls that are clad or built with cork. More about Ten interiors with textured cork-covered walls
Dutch design studio Loop Loop has built a machine that can apply colours and gradients to aluminium at a small-scale, affordable level. More about Loop Loop creates Magic Colour Machine for easy aluminium customisation
Brooklyn-based Home Studios has turned a dated motel into a boutique hotel near the beach in Montauk, New York, using vintage furniture to make it feel like a "remote family home". More about Home Studios refreshes Daunt's Albatross motel in Montauk
Dezeen School Shows: a digital detox centre designed to improve people's mental health and a project that explores what might happen if London ran out of coal are featured in Dezeen's latest school show by students at the University for the Creative Arts. More about University for the Creative Arts spotlights six architecture projects
London studio Will Gamble Architects has added a brick bedroom suite to a Georgian house in England, along with a contrasting glass-walled extension on the ground floor that opens to the garden. More about Will Gamble Architects adds glass-walled extension to Pergola House in Leicestershire
From windows framed by slatted aluminium fins to colourful metal panels that wrap around a building's facade, our latest lookbook showcases 10 homes with shutters and louvres. More about Ten home interiors framed by impressive shutters and louvres
This week on Dezeen, we revealed rapper Kanye West and Muji industrial designer Naoto Fukasawa's understated burger box design for fast-food chain McDonald's. More about This week we revealed Kanye West's burger box design for McDonald's
Italian fashion brand Prada collaborated with AMO to create an entirely paper show space that resembled an oversized house for its Spring Summer 2023 menswear show. More about AMO creates oversized paper house for Prada Spring Summer 2023 show
Dezeen School Shows: a clothing collection informed by patterns of brain activity while dreaming and a research project studying bacteria that produces whole cellulose garments are included in Dezeen's latest school show by students at the University of Arts Linz. More about University of Arts Linz spotlights 10 fashion and technology student projects
Tactile papercrete stools and a bench that symbolises rising sea levels are among the seating that has been installed throughout the Royal Docks for the London Festival of Architecture. More about Pews and Perches enliven London's Royal Docks for London Festival of Architecture
Promotion: housing for large families and communal spaces for people and pets are just two of the ten urban design concepts presented in the first-ever publication from Hong Kong educational institution My ArchiSchool. More about Students set out ideas for better urban living in My ArchiSchool's first publication