Sustainable Design for a Better World is the theme on which students from the Singapore University of Technology and Design based the projects in this school show, tackling issues like wildfire resilience, land scarcity and electronic waste. More about Ten sustainable architecture proposals by SUTD students
Studio Roosegaarde's Urban Sun proposal to use far-UVC lights to make outdoor spaces safer from Covid-19 can only be used at night and people still need to wear masks and observe social distancing, the designer has explained. More about "Urban Sun is not intended to create a guaranteed safe space" says Studio Roosegaarde
Dezeen Showroom: furniture company Molteni&C is presenting a reissue of the D.154.2 armchair, which was one of several custom designs created by Italian architect Gio Ponti for his Villa Planchart. More about D.154.2 armchair by Gio Ponti via Molteni&C
Italian studio Llabb has combined two apartments in Genoa, creating a quirky home that combines nautical references with contemporary art. More about Casa ai Bailucchi is a two-level apartment overlooking Genoa port
Six large sculptures of fractured human faces form an underwater museum that British sculptor Jason deCaires Taylor has created off the coast of Cannes, France. More about Jason deCaires Taylor creates Underwater Museum of Cannes "to draw more people underwater"
Makeshift roadblocks from Hong Kong's pro-democracy protests won the People's Choice category at the Designs of the Year awards because they could be made by anyone anywhere, says Design Museum curator Maria McLintock. More about Brick Arches roadblocks from Hong Kong protests resonate as "anyone can replicate"
Studio Anton Hendrik Denys and Steen Architecten have transformed an industrial office building in Belgium by cladding it in corrugated metal and adding colourful graphic interiors. More about Studio Anton Hendrik Denys designs Belgian office informed by 1960s colour schemes
Dutch designer Marjan van Aubel has developed a solar lamp that is designed to be hung in front of windows so it can generate its own energy. More about Marjan van Aubel creates indoor solar light to usher in "solar democracy"
Dezeen promotion: the UK Timber Trade Federation is showcasing the winning entries of its Conversations about Climate Change design competition via a virtual exhibition and event series. More about Timber Trade Federation exhibits six "conversation pieces" made from responsibly sourced timber
Landscape architecture studio Narchitektura has used 40 grey sandstone slabs to create a memorial park on the site of a former synagogue in Oświęcim, the Polish city where the Auschwitz concentration camp was located. More about Narchitektura creates memorial park on site of Oświęcim's Great Synagogue
Punta Chilen by Guillermo Acuña Arquitectos Asociados is a house extension on bright red-painted pine stilts overlooking the sea on the island of Chiloe in Chile. More about Guillermo Acuña raises seaside annexe on forest of red-painted pine stilts
Studio Roosegaarde has proposed a light that uses ultraviolet radiation to sanitise outdoor spaces, claiming this could reduce the risk of people contracting Covid-19. More about Studio Roosegaarde's ultraviolet Urban Sun light "cleans public spaces of coronavirus"
Monoarchi has designed a campus building with a geometric facade wrapped around a number of small courtyards for an experimental school in Hangzhou, China. More about Monoarchi designs gridded facade with colourful accents for school in China
San Francisco-based footwear brand Allbirds is set to introduce what it claims is the first leather alternative entirely made from plant-based ingredients. More about Allbirds to make shoes using plant-based leather to help "eradicate petroleum from the fashion industry"
Dutch architecture studio OMA has produced a film exploring hospital design as part of its research into its first hospital buildings. Partner at the studio Reinier de Graaf tells Dezeen how he envisions the hospital of the future. More about "Hospitals in drastic, drastic need of innovation" says Reinier de Graaf
South African artist Andile Dyalvane's sculptural iThongo seating collection was crafted from hand-coiled clay and informed by significant words in the Xhosa language. More about Andile Dyalvane draws on Xhosa heritage for iThongo seating collection
Studioninedots has created a house in the Netherlands that is arranged as a patchwork of alternating courtyards and industrial low-lying pavilions. More about Outdoor space has "equal importance" to interiors in Villa Fifty-Fifty
Three pavilions topped with a metal roof form this house in the woods of Tennessee, designed by American firm Sanders Pace Architecture. More about French Broad House by Sanders Pace weaves through a Tennessee forest
In this week's comments update, readers are discussing the design of a trio of skyscrapers set to be built in London and sharing their views on other top stories. More about "The Gherkin, the Cheesegrater, the Can, now comes the Good, the Bad and the Ugly" says commenter
The Yale University Center for Innovative Thinking by architecture studio Weiss/Manfredi is an elliptical glass pavilion for students on the New Haven campus. More about Weiss/Manfredi wraps Yale University study centre in curved glass walls