Unusual, innovative and avant-garde approaches to seating were among the highlights of Dutch design fair Object Rotterdam, which took place earlier this month. Anna Winston picks six of the most intriguing chairs from the annual event's crop of up-and-coming talent. More about Six alternative approaches to seating from Object Rotterdam 2020
Dutch architects Powerhouse Company has designed a floating office in Rotterdam for the Global Center on Adaptation that will be carbon neutral and function off-grid. More about Powerhouse Company reveals floating off-grid office in Rotterdam
Dutch architecture practice Eklund Terbeek has developed a spacious loft-style apartment for a family of four inside a school gymnasium in Rotterdam, which is over 100 years old. More about Eklund Terbeek creates loft-style apartment within a former school gymnasium
A floating dairy farm has opened in Rotterdam, showing how food production can become less vulnerable to climate change. More about Floating Farm in Rotterdam is now home to 32 cows
ODA has revealed visuals of Post, an adaptive reuse scheme that will revive Rotterdam's former post office, and include the construction of a 150-metre-high tower. More about ODA unveils plans for renovation of Rotterdam's historic post office
OMA is planning to build a 63,000-seat stadium in its home city for football club Feyenoord Rotterdam. More about OMA unveils plans for largest football stadium in the Netherlands
MAD has revealed visuals of a "theatrical" spiral staircase set to create a panoramic viewing platform for a historic warehouse on Rotterdam's waterfront. More about MAD to build huge blue spiral staircase in old Fenix warehouse in Rotterdam
Dutch studio KAW employed a range of technical and architectural concepts to minimise the environmental impact of this house in Rotterdam, including introducing large windows into its brick facades to promote natural light and passive heating. More about KAW's ActiveHouse is a sustainable home that generates more energy than it consumes
Dezeen promotion: the Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam has created a digital archive of student projects, in order to share its research with a wider audience. More about Piet Zwart Institute launches online archive of student design research
Dutch practice Eklund Terbeek combines contemporary and original features in this loft apartment, which sits inside an old schoolhouse in Rotterdam. More about Eklund Terbeek transform 20th-century schoolhouse into light-filled loft apartment
Designers are working harder than ever to create projects with a social and environmental conscience, according to the curator of an exhibition about "changemakers" at the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen. Here's a look at seven figures leading the charge. More about Seven designers from the Change the System exhibition who are tackling global issues
Dutch studio FillieVerhoeven Architects has completed a house near Rotterdam featuring an asymmetric gabled form clad entirely in blackened timber and incorporating large glazed openings on all sides. More about Villa SG21 is a monolithic blackened-wood house topped with a turfed roof
Rotterdam studio MVRDV has unveiled plans to build a new skyscraper in its home city, featuring a pixelated facade made up of hundreds of bay windows. More about MVRDV designs new Rotterdam skyscraper featuring pixelated walls
MVRDV restored the industrial roots of this building in the Het Industriegebouw in Rotterdam to create a new home for the Groos design store. More about MVRDV creates interiors for Groos store inside post-war Rotterdam building
Big windows replace the rear wall of a 20th-century house in Rotterdam, which has been overhauled by Shift Architecture Urbanism to create two light-filled apartments. More about Shift exchanges brickwork for glazing to create bright apartments in Rotterdam townhouse
Two tiers of glazing sweep around a stout olive tree in the back garden of this Rotterdam residence by MVRDV, contrasting with the almost windowless brick walls that face the street and neighbouring houses. More about MVRDV wraps Rotterdam house around a mature olive tree
Dutch architects Gwendolyn Huisman and Marijn Boterman designed this skinny house in Rotterdam for themselves, incorporating hidden windows into the black brick walls and adding a large indoor hammock. More about Skinny Rotterdam house for two architects features black brickwork and concealed windows
Dezeen promotion: the application deadline for the Piet Zwart Institute's interior architecture postgraduate programme in Rotterdam has been announced. More about Deadline approaching for entries to Piet Zwart Institute's postgraduate programme
Studio Roosegaarde has revealed its new Rotterdam office, the Dream Factory, which is located inside a 1930s glass factory overlooking the city's harbour. More about Studio Roosegaarde converts Rotterdam glass factory into "dream lab of the 21st century"
Dutch firm Powerhouse Company has unveiled plans for a high-rise apartment block in Rotterdam, which could become "the slimmest residential tower of Europe". More about Powerhouse Company reveals plans for Europe's skinniest residential skyscraper