Companies can gain a competitive advantage by designing workplaces that make wellbeing a default choice, argue the authors of The Healthy Workplace Nudge book in a talk Dezeen hosted with Haworth in Chicago. More about Making "the healthy choice the default choice" will encourage wellbeing in the workplace
Areas of this plastic surgery centre in Tel Aviv look more like a minimal apartment than a medical office, thanks to teal and blush decor chosen by local designer Maayan Zusman with architect Amir Navon. More about Maayan Zusman and Amir Navon design plastic surgery clinic with home-like interiors
Dezeen promotion: Wulf Architekten has used Velux's modular skylights at a research centre in western Germany, to flood its entrance and oval-shaped laboratory building with natural light. More about Wulf Architekten brightens German disease research centre with Velux skylights
Designers Candice Blanc and Ulysse Martel have created a collection of iridescent exercise weights that can also be displayed as sculptures in the home. More about Iridescent free weights double as geometric sculptures
Industrial design graduate Gwen Gage's has created a plastic mesh that connect medication boxes together to allow easier delivery of malaria medicine in remote sub-Saharan African villages. More about VeloMed plastic mesh helps volunteers transport seven times as many medicine boxes
Architects Mike Tonkin and Anna Liu have created a prototype stent that adapts to a patient's throat for use after tracheal transplant surgery. More about Tonkin Liu shrinks architectural shell lace structure to create prototype windpipe stent
Riga School of Design and Art graduate Paula Lorence has created a series of objects to help children with autism spectrum disorders with their sensory development. More about Paula Lorence designs Taktil objects for children with autism
The mineralogy collection at the Melbourne Museum inspired Australian designer Leah Heiss' Facett hearing aid, which aims to shift talk "from disability to desirability". More about Facett hearing aid takes inspiration from precious gemstones
Architect Guillem Carrera has completed an environmentally friendly elderly care home and day centre on a wedge-shaped plot in the Spanish village of Blancafort. More about Guillem Carrera's care home in northern Spain encourages residents to socialise
US start-up Naked Labs has launched a smart mirror and connected scale that can build a 3D scan and full health profile of your body. More about Naked Labs launches at-home 3D body scanner
Design studio Golden has incorporated a textured sisal ceiling and a muted palette of colours to create a connection to the sea, for Warrior One's second yoga studio in Melbourne. More about Warrior One yoga studio uses textured surfaces to reference the nearby sea
British product designer Hans Ramzan has created a pocket-sized device that enables people to test themselves for HIV from the comfort of their own home. More about Catch device lets users in developing countries test themselves for HIV at home
HKS Architects and Engineers for Overseas Development have built a maternity unit in Uganda, using local materials, skills and technology to create a sustainable facility. More about Maternity facility in rural Uganda is entirely self-sustaining
University of Westminster graduate Ruth Pearn has designed a concept for a bathhouse, with a tampon recycling scheme, which would alleviate period poverty and combat stigma around menstruation. More about Ruth Pearn envisions public bathhouse to fight period poverty in Yorkshire
A compression top with an auto-tightening collar that promises to reduce whiplash and concussion is the first product from Canadian sports tech start-up Aexos. More about Halo smart collar designed to protect athletes from concussion
Architecture studio Alma-nac has built a round-the-clock emergency hospital for pets, which is designed to keep cats and dogs away from each other. More about London animal hospital respects the age-old rivalry between cats and dogs
Royal College of Art graduate Louise Nissen has suggested converting an abandoned lido in the British seaside town of Margate into a respiratory clinic for Londoners suffering from pollution-related maladies. More about Louise Nissen envisions respiratory clinic in Margate lido to treat Londoners' lungs
This hospital nestled in a valley in Afghanistan's central highlands features a sequence of courtyards intended to "foster healing and well-being" that become increasingly more private within the complex. More about Arcop arranges Afghan hospital around public and private courtyards
Scandinavian architecture firm White Arkitekter has unveiled plans to build a pale yellow psychiatric clinic in Nuuk, Greenland, which will frame views of the surrounding arctic landscape. More about White Arkitekter to create psychiatric clinic in Greenland
Guests at The Retreat at Blue Lagoon Iceland can look out onto the turquoise water of the famous lagoon from hotel suites nestled into the lava formations. More about Basalt Architects completes hotel at Iceland's Blue Lagoon resort