Czech designers Kristýna Mikolášková and Tereza Drobná have developed a collection of colourful glass side tables that can be combined with smaller metal models to alter their appearance. More about Nesting tables by Mikolášková&Drobná change colour as they're combined
French studio Uchronia has completed the interiors for Cafe Shin in Paris, which features a central coffee counter topped with a washi-paper roof to emulate a traditional Korean house. More about Uchronia designs Cafe Shin to be "halfway between Paris and Seoul"
Stained green plywood and a wiggly salmon-pink room divider embellish our latest lookbook, which features a rainbow of colourful residential kitchens. More about Eight colourful kitchens designed for cheery living
A stepped six-tiered pyramid dominated the main Ketelhuisplein square at Dutch Design Week this year, wrapped in colourful flags offering 80 different symbols for peace. More about Refugees and design graduates unite to make towering Temple of Peace
Eindhoven-based Studio Rens has created Re-Glow, a collection of blocky furniture and homeware clad in reconfigurable magnetic tiles that was unveiled at Dutch Design Week. More about Studio Rens covers furniture in "interchangeable and customisable" tiles
Norway-based Studio Sløyd has developed a process for dyeing entire blocks of wood and used it to produce 24 playful multi-coloured stools. More about Studio Sløyd showcases "through-coloured" wood with 24 Roggbif stools
Carpet brand Tai Ping has eliminated "by far the most polluting" part of its production process with the Biophilic rug collection, made exclusively from natural materials that are left raw and undyed. More about Tai Ping blends 35 natural fibres to colour rugs without dye
As part of an installation for Paris Design Week, French design studio Uchronia has taken over the forecourt of the Hôtel de la Marine with a monumental bed that homages the hotel's 18th-century interiors. More about Uchronia creates giant four-poster bed for Paris Design Week
Paint brand Dulux has revealed an "uplifting" bright yellow colour called True Joy as its Colour of the Year for 2025. More about True Joy named Dulux Colour of the Year 2025
American studios Neil M Denari Architects and HLW have created an office structure in Beverly Hills equipped with solar panels and a distinctive "aubergine"-coloured facade. More about Neil M Denari Architects aims for "immediate singularity" with purple LA office building
British-Nigerian designer Yinka Ilori has partially enclosed the Eros fountain at Piccadilly Circus in central London with a pair of brightly coloured plinths. More about Yinka Ilori wraps Piccadilly Circus fountain in bright orange Pegasus-topped plinths
A London house extension designed by Office S&M features a ceramic facade with the same pink glaze used for Tube station tiles on the Hammersmith and City Line. More about Beacon House extension by Office S&M features bubblegum pink tiles
Interior designers are finding interesting ways to pair red and green – a combination more typically associated with Christmas – to create quirky colour-block interiors. This lookbook brings together recent examples of how it can be done. More about Eight offbeat red-and-green home interiors that prove opposites attract
Artist Raphaël Zarka has collaborated with local architect Jean-Benoît Vétillard to create a horseshoe-shaped skatepark defined by bold colours in Paris. More about Raphaël Zarka adds colourful skatepark in front of Centre Pompidou
Making our buildings more colourful would be an easy and effective way to achieve the aims of Thomas Heatherwick's Humanise campaign, writes Laura Guido-Clark. More about "We can humanise our existing spaces simply by deploying the radical power of colour"
Local entrepreneur Varun Kataria has unveiled a venue with a mix of colourful, retro details that contains the only permanent roller rink in New York City. More about Xanadu is a "fun and maximum" roller disco in Brooklyn
Portuguese studio Alarquitectos has used walls of pink and blue to brighten São Sebastião 123, an apartment converted from a 20th-century office in Lisbon. More about Alarquitectos lines Lisbon apartment with colour-blocked walls and pine wood
French artist Daniel Buren has created installations at six Belmond hotels, including a colourful pergola in Mallorca, mirrored totems in Cape Town and a window takeover in Rio de Janeiro. More about Daniel Buren brings his signature colours to six hotels around the world
Three jagged walls delineate the colourful spaces inside this converted barn in Sant Just Desvern, Spain, transformed by Barcelona studio H3O to reference a lightning bolt that struck the building generations ago. More about H3O creates "unpredictable" zigzagging interiors for lightning-struck home
The founders of Spanish studio Masquespacio have transformed a traditional Valencian farmhouse into their self-designed home and studio, with maximalist interiors that nod to the Memphis movement. More about Masquespacio founders create home and office where "everything revolves around play"