Large ceramic fins with a titanium dioxide coating that can break down smog particles cover the wave-like form of this hospital building in Milan, designed by local practice Mario Cucinella Architects. More
Milanese brand WEED'D has launched three striking and colourful marijuana bongs designed by Italian designers Simone Bonanni, Valerio Sommella and Maddalena Casadei. More
Paris-based homeware brand Trame has unveiled a collection of rugs and ceramics with pieces designed by architect Arthur Mamou-Mani as well as designers Amandine David and Wonmin Park that reference the historic Alhambra palace in Granada. More
Dezeen promotion: Italian tile brand Ceramiche Refin has launched Cortina, a porcelain stoneware tile collection designed to resemble traditional wooden planks from Italian alpine huts. More
More than 100 artisans are united in a directory of Valencia's historic ceramics community, which has been compiled by potter Ana Illueca to make the region's craft skills more "visible internationally and accessible locally". More
Dezeen promotion: designers, architects and final year architectural students are invited to submit their work for this year's Tile of Spain Awards, which celebrates architectural and design projects that use ceramics crafted in Spain. More
Dezeen promotion: Matteo Belfiore Architecture and Shukoh have used anti-microbial ceramic surfaces by Fiandre Architectural Surfaces across the interior of a new headquarters for a cyber company in Tokyo, Japan. More
Designer Bonnie Hvillum's Natural Material Studio has created conceptual ceramics from clay made out of powdered seashells from Denmark's Noma restaurant. More
Dezeen Showroom: Spanish interior brand ZYX has designed the Amazonia Collection, a range of floor and wall tiles that resemble the "wild jungle". More
Dezeen promotion: Italian ceramics company Marazzi has released a collection of porcelain tiles with hand-painted designs and small irregularities that create an authentic look. More
Dezeen Showroom: MUT Design and Spanish brand Harmony have collaborated to produce Bow, a collection of wall tiles influenced by the traditional clay tile roofs of the Mediterranean. More
Textile designer Elaine Yan Ling Ng has created a collection of speckled wall tiles made from shells of eggs discarded by bakeries. More
Landscape Tail is a set of porcelain artists' paintbrushes created by Oornament Studio that are both functional design objects and decorative sculptures in their own right. More
Vo Trong Nghia Architects has designed a layered home encased in a perforated ceramic wall with a series of elevated gardens that function as a natural cooling system. More
Spanish designer Júlia Roca Vera has created a line of cosmetics from fruit that was discarded for purely aesthetic reasons, to encourage people to make use of waste products. More
Dezeen Showroom: Giovanni Barbieri's Squar(e) collection combines irregular mosaic and standard ceramic tiles that can be used to create customised 3D wall finishes. More
Dezeen Showroom: Tallinn-based ceramicist Raili Keiv has created a vase informed by an Estonian balancing toy, which is available via online lifestyle store NID. More
Dezeen Showroom: Swedish design duo Bernadotte & Kylberg has created Lines, a tableware collection made from Vitro porcelain, for their new lifestyle brand NJRD. More
Dezeen promotion: the textures of rocks, stones and sand are replicated and combined to form the latest collection of tiles by Italian brand Ceramiche Refin. More
Dezeen Showroom: Irish brand Mullan Lighting has designed its handmade Osier pendant light to look as if it was aged by time. More
