US firm Tres Birds Workshop has topped a Japanese restaurant in Denver, Colorado with a greenhouse featuring soil-free growing towers. More about Urban Denver building by Tres Birds houses a Japanese restaurant and aeroponic greenhouse
French design duo Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec have worked with US manufacturers Skyline Design on a collection of glass panels emblazoned with colourful geometric patterns created using code. More about Colour and pattern intersect in Bouroullec brothers' glass panel collection
Dezeen promotion: glassware brand Nude presented three new collections in an installation by London designer Sarah Izod, which took inspiration from the hidden gardens of Milan. More about Nude debuts glassware collections in hidden garden installation by Sarah Izod
Buttons, ports and speaker grills are absent from Vivo's Apex 2019 concept phone, which is wrapped in a single piece of glass. More about Vivo eliminates all ports on unibody Apex 2019 smartphone
Italian designer Luca Nichetto has created a range of glass lights for Swedish heritage brand Svenskt Tenn, marrying together a print by Josef Frank with Venetian glassblowing techniques. More about Luca Nichetto celebrates Josef Frank and Venetian glass in colourful Fusa lamps
Nendo's Oki Sato has designed a series of cast glass chairs for Venetian brand WonderGlass, which feature a U-shaped base formed by the effects of gravity on molten glass. More about Nendo lets gravity shape its Melt furniture collection for WonderGlass
French designer Sacha Walckhoff has created a series of curvy vessels for Czech glass company Verreum using blown and metallic glass, based on equipment used in alchemy. More about Sacha Walckhoff designs bulbous Double Jeu glassware inspired by chemistry apparatus
South African architect Nadine Englebrecht has completed an off-grid home featuring a central conservatory in the countryside outside Pretoria. More about Barn-inspired Conservatory House is an off-grid escape on a Pretoria farm
Indigenous trees and wooden workbenches line the inside of Apple Iconsiam in Bangkok, the first Apple Store to open in Thailand, designed by Foster + Partners. More about Foster + Partners use trees as partitions inside Thailand’s first Apple store
North London-based Studio Vit has created a collection of handmade tabletop objects in crystal glass and bone china, which are designed to be as thin and delicate as the materials will allow. More about Studio Vit designs glass and china Vessels to be "as thin as possible"
Jac Studios has designed minimal glass display cases for an exhibition in a Tadao Ando-designed museum – a project that has just won top prize at the Inside awards. More about Jac Studios creates delicate glass exhibition inside Tadao Ando's Genius Loci
Italian architect Matteo Thun has used cold-processing techniques to create a series of translucent blown-glass vases for Murano glassmakers Venini. More about Matteo Thun creates limited edition series of translucent vessels for Venini
Drawings by seven designers have been transformed into 3D glass works by master glassmaker Massimo Lunardon for an exhibition at London design store Silvera curated by Fabrica. More about Sam Baron and Formafantasma's sketches brought to life in blown glass
Artist Katrin Spranger's series of copper and glass sculptures made from plumbing parts and laboratory objects look to an imagined dystopian future. More about Katrin Spranger's copper and glass objects imagine a future where water is scarce
This year's London Design Festival features an array of projects that showcase new and inventive techniques in glass. Design reporter Natashah Hitti picks out eight of the most interesting examples, including vessels shaped by spectacles and glass blocks infused with bubbles. More about Eight designers exploring the versatility of glass for London Design Festival
Toronto design studio Castor has launched a set of accessories for marijuana users that resembles a vintage candy dish, ahead of Canada's expected legalisation of the drug later this year. More about Castor targets Canada's ageing pot users with Heirloom Stack
Foster + Partners has unveiled plans to turn a 1970s building in Madrid, Spain, into offices, which will feature a diamond-patterned exterior and a rooftop terrace. More about Foster + Partners unveils plans for Madrid office with diamond-shaped facade
Arc Designs has created a cantilevered viewing platform, and walkway with a glazed floor, perched on one of the highest points of the Rock of Gibraltar. More about Former military lookout in Gibraltar transformed into glazed viewpoint
Blown glass lights that look like bubbles of magma and blown glass vessels slumped over steel and brass stands feature in Nouvel Limited's latest collection. More about Nouvel Limited push the possibilities of blown glass with latest collection
Dezeen promotion: Vitrocsa's Turnable Corner glazing system is made up of full-height windows that can slide around corners, allowing architects to create panoramic views. More about Vitrocsa offers floor-to-ceiling glazing that slides open around corners