BIG unveils plans for Cactus Towers beside new Copenhagen IKEA
“People need convincing that wood can be a fire-safe material”
Tadao Ando surrounds huge buddha statue with lavender-covered mound at Sapporo cemetery
Centre Pompidou to open Shanghai outpost in David Chipperfield’s West Bund Art Museum
Erwin Wurm’s Fat House installed outside baroque palace in Vienna
Dowel Jones stretches and tweaks Hurdle chair into whole seating collection
Photographer’s Loft by Desai Chia provides live-work space in New York
Lack of diversity within UK’s creative industries revealed
“Technology should look like something in your grandmother’s room” says Oki Sato
Branch Studio uses rammed earth to build Melbourne house extension
Jiaji Shen proposes turning abandoned coal pier into workshop for “mudlarking” jewellery maker
Rasmus Bækkel Fex borrows “honesty and quality” of Shaker design for F chair
Rural Idaho home by Olson Kundig has gadgets and gizmos aplenty
Over 800 buildings open to the public for Open House London 2017
Former V&A head Martin Roth dies aged 62
Open-plan offices must be rethought to prevent employees losing focus, finds Haworth
In Situ Studio revives mid-century modern home in North Carolina
Hawaii house designed as a mini village by De Reus Architects
Cary Tamarkin constructs Island Creek home in the Hamptons with local materials
Drone footage shows Heatherwick Studio’s “tree-covered mountains” underway in Shanghai
Competition: win a book that showcases the homes of surfers from around the world
PIDO’s Bike Share Farm is a community garden that can be pedalled from place to place
Andrew Burges’ Sydney house pairs pale brickwork with blackened wood
