London Design Festival 2015: Royal College of Art graduate Yi-Wen Tseng has imagined a car powered by bio-printed organs, using synthetic biology to turn a cow's digestive process into a fuel system. More about Yi-Wen Tseng's methane-powered concept car is modelled on a cow's digestive system
Hanoi architecture office Studio 102 has transformed an incomplete house in the Vietnamese capital into an office for a landscape architecture firm, featuring plants that clamber over its slatted timber cladding (+ slideshow). More about Studio 102 converts an empty Hanoi house into a plant-covered office and showroom
Vienna Design Week 2015: Austrian studio Chmara.Rosinke explored alternatives for dining and food preparation in its Cucina Futurista 2.0 exhibition of furniture and tableware design at Vienna Design Week (+ slideshow). More about Chmara.Rosinke designs Futurist kitchen installation
Australian architects Jackson Clements Burrows added perforated shutters to the exterior of this holiday cabin "like a Gore-Tex jacket", providing light and ventilation when closed (+ slideshow). More about Perforated shutters provide light and ventilation for Moonlight Cabin by Jackson Clements Burrows
London Design Festival 2015: to celebrate British design brand Another Country's five-year anniversary, Studio Dessuant Bone has designed a lamp to reflect the company's origins in the seaside county of Dorset (+ slideshow). More about Studio Dessuant Bone's Jurassic Light 117 is influenced by the Dorset coastline
Seoul studio OBBA has completed a house for a pair of newlyweds, featuring a floor that doubles as a bench, a retractable staircase and a dedicated loft for a pet cat (+ slideshow). More about House in Seoul by OBBA features a retractable staircase and a loft for cats
Guests at this hotel near the Spanish city of Alicante stay in prefabricated cabins, which are raised off the ground to reduce their impact on the rugged landscape and enable views over the adjacent valley (+ slideshow). More about Glass-walled boxes on stilts accommodate guests at Daniel Mayo's Vivood hotel
Israel-based Studio Itai Bar-On has created a set of concrete pendant lamps that are patterned with a grid of lines designed to look like a digital wireframe model (+ slideshow). More about Studio Itai Bar-On's concrete Grid lamps are patterned with wireframe lines
The couple that occupy this combined home and workspace in Tokyo each have their own domain – downstairs is a salon for a hairdresser, while upstairs contains a workspace for a writer (+ slideshow). More about Wooden house by Suzuki Architects also contains a hair salon and a writing studio
Mid-century furniture pieces by designers including Warren Platner, Harry Bertoia and Arne Jacobsen are being reproduced as gold versions thanks to improvements in metal-coating technology (+ slideshow). More about Furniture by Bertoia, Jacobsen and Platner introduced with gold-plated finishes
Slovenian studio SoNo Arhitekti has lined a book store in Trieste, Italy, with floor-to-ceiling stacks of shelves in patterns that reference the architecture of a local landmark (+ slideshow). More about Box-like shelving covers walls in SoNo Arhitekti's Book Centre Trieste shop
Designer Hussein Chalayan's Paris Fashion Week show featured a catwalk shower that dissolved a pair of soluble outfits, revealing delicate garments underneath (+ slideshow). More about Clothes dissolve on the catwalk during Hussein Chalayan's Spring Summer 2016 show
Portuguese architect João Mendes Ribeiro designed this corrugated steel and concrete warehouse for a components manufacturer, but prior to moving in its art collector-owner filled the space with work by Andy Warhol, John Baldessari and Antony Gormley (+ slideshow). More about Warehouse in Portugal by João Mendes Ribeiro used to exhibit Andy Warhol artwork
Ladders provide access to mezzanine sleeping areas in rooms at this student residence within a former car-radio button factory in Berlin's Kreuzberg district (+ slideshow). More about Macro Sea converts Berlin factory into student residences
Dutch studio Ruud Visser Architecten has "stretched" the length of an early 20th-century townhouse in The Hague, and added a large window with a cross-shaped wooden frame to the new rear facade (+ slideshow). More about Ruud Visser Architects extends old Dutch townhouse by two metres
Parisian office DGT Architects aimed to condense the architectural history of Japan's houses into a single home with this elevated timber volume supported on an earth-clad base. More about DGT Architects' A House for Oiso aims to "capture the essence of Japan from all ages"
An exhibition at the Cranbrook Museum of Art outside Detroit examines the jewellery of the mid-century American sculptor and designer Harry Bertoia (+ slideshow). More about Jewellery exhibition focuses on early work by Harry Bertoia
Vienna Design Week 2015: Austrian designer Klemens Schillinger has created a series of rings that are sized to show the fluctuating price of gold over the past five decades, as part of a jewellery collection (+ slideshow). More about Klemens Schillinger visualises changing values of gold with Element 79 jewellery collection
Architecture studio Penda has created a rope-bound bamboo pavilion as a mock up of a modular housing system developed to provide sustainable housing schemes for populations of up to 200,000 (+ slideshow). More about Penda's bamboo pavilion could be expanded to create homes for 200,000 people
Chicago Architecture Biennial 2015: Hong Kong design and research group Rural Urban Framework has been awarded the 2015 Curry Stone Design Prize for humanitarian architecture (+ slideshow). More about Rural Urban Framework awarded Curry Stone Design Prize at Chicago Architecture Biennial