Dezeen promotion: IE University student Jose Maria Mateo has designed a conceptual series of devices called NUDes that could be plugged into buildings to upgrade or adapt them to different conditions, like a pandemic. More about Jose Maria Mateo's NUDes project shows how housing can be used as "a weapon" against pandemics
SHAW Architecture & Design Studio has created a modest exhibition centre for an organic farm in Loudi, a secluded village in China's Shanxi province. More about Tiny exhibition centre on remote Chinese farm features timber interiors
Swedish furniture brands are the most sustainable in the world, according to a survey by design procurement consultancy Dodds & Shute. More about Sweden tops sustainability audit but furniture sector "turning a blind eye" to environmental issues
The winners of the AHEAD Europe hospitality awards will be announced on Monday in a virtual ceremony broadcast on Dezeen. More about AHEAD Europe hospitality awards winners to be announced in virtual ceremony
Dezeen Showroom: international furniture brand Andreu World has launched Giro Soft, a modular sofa system created by Alfredo Häberli. More about Alfredo Häberli creates "architectural" Giro Soft sofa for Andreu World
A group of American scientists and designers have developed a concept for a grow-your-own steak kit using human cells and blood to question the ethics of the cultured meat industry. More about Ouroboros Steak grow-your-own human meat kit is "technically" not cannibalism
Dezeen promotion: floor-and wall-covering brand Ariostea has added the Michelangelo Altissimo, Brilliant Green and Verde Saint Denis marble-look textures to its Ultra Marmi collection of large porcelain slabs. More about Ariostea unveils new marble-effect textures as part of Ultra Marmi collection
Architecture firm Foster + Partners has employed a robot dog named Spot, designed by Boston Dynamics, to oversee construction at Battersea Power Station in London. More about Foster + Partners adopts Spot the Boston Dynamics robot dog
The latest edition of our Dezeen Weekly newsletter features 10 kitchens by designers experimenting with bright tiles and coloured cabinets. More about Ten colourful kitchens and Tesla tequila feature in today's Dezeen Weekly newsletter
Monolithic volumes clad in stainless steel reflect the trees surrounding the National Museum of the United States Army, which architecture firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill has completed in Virginia. More about SOM's National Museum of the United States Army opens in Virginia
Dezeen promotion: Japanese magazine a+u: Architecture and Urbanism has dedicated its 600th issue to the experimental work of international studio MAD, including its newly completed YueCheng Courtyard Kindergarten in Beijing. More about MAD's "futuristic designs" take centre stage in a+u magazine
We should be applauding social housing projects, but resist the rhetoric that sees council housing as the only solution to the housing crisis, says Owen Hopkins. More about The left "fetishises council housing with the same conviction as the right fetishises traditional styles"
Dezeen promotion: Swiss brand Geberit has developed a solution for draining water quickly from large roof areas and a pipe system that can deliver both drinking water and heating. More about Geberit develops flexible Mepla pipe and Pluvia drainage systems
Tangerine-coloured walls and terracotta-tile floors help enliven the formerly gloomy interior of Beam cafe in west London, designed by Ola Jachymiak Studio. More about Ola Jachymiak Studio brightens Beam cafe in London with orange hues
Stirling Prize-winning studio Mikhail Riches has unveiled details of the low-rise Passivhaus housing it is designing in York, UK, which will be net-zero carbon when in use. More about Mikhail Riches releases visuals for carbon-neutral housing scheme in York
Royal College of Art graduate Marcel/a Baltarete has created a series of short animations depicting themselves as otherworldly beings to alleviate and interrogate their feelings of gender dysphoria. More about Marcel/a Baltarete uses 3D animation as therapy for gender dysphoria
Architecture platform RSAA designed Urbania, an immersive exhibition about city planning, for the Prague Institute of Planning and Development in the Czech Republic. More about Urbania is an interactive exhibition about city planning in Prague
Phase Shifts Park in Taichung, Taiwan, has been designed by French landscape architects Mosbach Paysagistes and combines nature and technology to create a refuge from the heat and pollution of the city. More about Mosbach Paysagistes creates park for Taichung on site of former airport
Two prefabricated volumes form the Comandante Ferraz Antarctic Station, which Estúdio 41 has completed for the Brazilian Navy's scientific research programme in King George Island, Antarctica. More about Estúdio 41 completes prefabricated Antarctic research station for Brazil
These photographs by architect Alessandra Cianchetta capture the construction of the tilted and patterned walls of the extension OMA has designed for a Jewish temple in Los Angeles, California. More about Photographs capture OMA's Jewish temple extension taking shape in LA