Artist Takashi Murakami and fashion brand Louis Vuitton have created a giant inflatable octopus informed by Chinese lanterns, which has been installed at the newly restored Grand Palais museum in Paris in time for Art Basel. More about Takashi Murakami and Louis Vuitton take over Grand Palais with eight-metre-tall octopus
French architect Jean Nouvel has overhauled a 19th-century department store alongside the Louvre in central Paris to create a new home for the Fondation Cartier, featuring moveable gallery spaces. More about Jean Nouvel arranges Fondation Cartier around five giant moving floors
Technology brand Apple is collaborating with Design Miami on an exhibition highlighting the work of four emerging designers as part of the fair's Paris edition, which opens next week. More about Apple spotlights Designers of Tomorrow in debut exhibition at Design Miami.Paris
Danish architecture studio BIG has revealed plans for a mass-timber, riverside conference centre in Rouen, France, with a swooping roof. More about BIG designs The Sail conference centre in Normandy
A striped kitchen sets the tone for a colourful design scheme within this Parisian apartment, which was renovated by local studio Atelier HA. More about Atelier HA uses colour "as a structural element" in renovated Parisian apartment
French artist Aude Franjou has created an installation for Paris Design Week featuring handwoven coral-like forms that spiral upwards through a staircase within one of the city's most famous landmarks. More about Nature invades Paris's July Column in Corals of Liberty installation by Aude Franjou
A pared-back concrete showroom with an arched glass-brick ceiling sits next to a historic salon filled with collectible design at fashion brand Acne Studios' latest headquarters, designed together with Stockholm-based Halleroed. More about Acne Studios unveils art-filled Paris headquarters in former laboratory
The Netherlands' Nieuwe Instituut has opened the fourth in its series of New Store pop-up shops, this time inviting consumers to participate in the production and recycling of a clothing item made from local wool. More about New Store 4.0 at Paris Design Week explores "farm-to-closet" fashion
Danish designer Julie Cloos Mølsgaard has installed contemporary furniture inside a 14th-century townhouse in the south of France, turning it into a guesthouse for homeware brand Vipp. More about Julie Cloos Mølsgaard transforms medieval French townhouse into Vipp guesthouse
Belgian engineering studio Ney and Partners has created a sinuous footbridge in Albi, France, which cantilevers from a 19th-century viaduct over the River Tarn. More about Ney and Partners curves footbridge between arches of French viaduct
Architecture studio RREEL has given a more contemporary feel to this apartment inside Immeuble Molitor, the residential building where architect Le Corbusier lived for more than three decades. More about RREEL modernises apartment beneath Le Corbusier's former home in Paris
All-white furnishings feature in this exhibition by US gallery Ralph Pucci, which is showcased within an Oscar Niemeyer-designed pavilion at French art destination Chateau La Coste. More about Ralph Pucci exhibition at Chateau La Coste strips furniture down to its "purest state"
London practice Bindloss Dawes has transformed a centuries-old hamlet in southwest France into the Amassa yoga retreat, using a series of monolithic poured concrete forms to adapt an existing stone barn. More about Bindloss Dawes transforms centuries-old French hamlet into yoga retreat
Interior designer Dorothée Meilichzon has filled the interior of Mylos Hotel in Cargèse, Corsica, with details that nod to the village's Greek origins. More about "Nothing is smooth" in Corsica's Mylos Hotel
French studio Hamonic+Masson & Associés has completed the Monsieur Claude restaurant in Rueil-Malmaison, Paris, which is surrounded by a cloud-like sculpture made from 3,240 stainless steel tubes. More about Hamonic+Masson & Associés raises cloud-like restaurant on stilts above French square
French architecture studio Associer has completed the James Baldwin Media Library and the Refugee House in Paris, adapting and extending a former secondary school with new elements in latticed timber and poured earth. More about Associer transforms Parisian 1970s school into media library and refugee centre
Palestinian studio AAU Anastas has designed an exhibition of ancient artefacts from Gaza in Paris, reflecting on the objects' last 20 years trapped in storage and unable to return home. More about AAU Anastas creates exhibition design for show of Palestinian antiquities
French studio Chatillon Architectes has completed the final phase of its transformation of the historic Grand Palais on the Champs-Élysées in Paris, now set to become the temporary home of Centre Pompidou. More about Grand Palais fully reopens following Chatillon Architectes restoration
French studio Ateliers O-S Architectes has completed the Marie Marvingt Gymnasium in northern France, creating barn-like volumes clad in timber planks to help it blend in with its agricultural surroundings. More about Ateliers O-S Architectes draws on agricultural architecture for French gymnasium
French studio Chatillon Architectes has transformed a 1950s post office in Brittany into flats, adding an extension with a glass-brick facade. More about Chatillon Architectes turns Brest Post Office into flats with glass-brick facade