Bamboo and carbon fibre can be used together to build earthquake-proof architecture, says Japanese architect Kengo Kuma, whose Bamboo Ring is installed at the V&A for London Design Festival. More about Kengo Kuma combines bamboo with carbon fibre to create "material for the future"
As London Design Festival approaches, Dezeen's Jennifer Hahn picks the 12 highlights to see and do during the week-long event, from a circular bamboo nest by architect Kengo Kuma to grow-it-yourself couture. More about Twelve exhibitions, events and installations to take in at London Design Festival 2019
Swiss art curator Klaus Littmann has planted 300 trees in a football stadium in Austria as a "memorial" to the environment in the anthropocene era. More about Klaus Littmann plants forest in Austrian football stadium
Digital art collective Marshmallow Laser Feast marks the opening of the Kengo Kuma-designed Odunpazari Modern Museum with two virtual reality installations that comment on humanity's dependency on nature. More about Marshmallow Laser Feast's VR exhibition sends "important environmental message"
Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson has installed five reflective spheres at a plaza adjoining a San Francisco waterfront sports arena. More about Olafur Eliasson's silver orbs create tunnel effect on San Francisco's waterfront
Textile brand Kirkby Design has collaborated with Transport for London to recreate seven heritage moquette designs featured on the city's Underground tube seats. More about Kirkby Design creates fabric collection based on London Underground seats
Burning Man revellers, including architect Bjarke Ingels, have captured the installations, pavilions and stages at this year's event, including elevated stepping stones and a huge arm made of scrap metal. More about Timber pavilions and other-worldly installations animate the plains at Burning Man 2019
Mexican designer Norberto Miranda has designed inflatable structures that look like massive beans to host an exhibition that celebrates the traditions and intersection of Mexican gastronomy, music and culture. More about Norberto Miranda creates inflatable bean galleries for travelling exhibit in Mexico
The "temporary city" of Burning Man has risen once again from the desert foundations of Black Rock City for its 2019 edition. Explore the community-driven music event with our updated Pinterest boards, featuring timber installations and ornate pavilions. Follow Dezeen on Pinterest › More about Ready your engines and voyage to Burning Man through our new Pinterest board
Dutch designer Hella Jongerius has created a giant loom with threads that tumble 16 metres between the floors of the multi-storey Lafayette Anticipations foundation in the Marais, Paris. More about Hella Jongerius fills atrium of Parisian foundation with a giant loom
Major high-rise developments are razing the architectural past of Los Angeles at a rapid rate, says the production designer behind the 1960s sets of Quentin Tarantino's movie, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. More about Buildings in LA are torn down and rebuilt as fast as movie sets, says Tarantino's production designer
The roof of City Gallery Wellington is now home to a "kinda creepy" five-metre-tall sculpture of a hand with a face called Quasi, by New Zealand artist Ronnie van Hout. More about "Giant hybrid face-hand" installed on roof of art gallery in Wellington
Designers from the Interaction Research Studio at Goldsmiths, University of London, have produced a series of simple wildlife habitats that incorporate hidden cameras for capturing images of the animal visitors. More about Nature Scenes are sculptural "still lifes" for recording urban wildlife
David Adjaye has designed an exhibition of ceramicist Magdalene Odundo's work at the Norman Foster-designed Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts in Norwich. More about David Adjaye designs Magdalene Odundo ceramics exhibition at the Sainsbury Centre
Artist Antony Gormley has unveiled Sight, an exhibition of 29 of his humanoid sculptures on the Greek island of Delos in the Aegean sea. More about Antony Gormley installs iron figures among ancient ruins on the Greek island of Delos
Bacteria from a boggy World War Two bomb crater generate kaleidoscopic light forms inside this telescope-like tube by Dutch designer Teresa van Dongen.
More about Teresa van Dongen's Mud Well light uses microorganisms to create electricity
Architectural studio Rael San Fratello has installed three pink seesaws between the metal slats of the US-Mexico border wall so that children on either side can play together. More about Rael San Fratello slots pink seesaws into US-Mexico border wall
Dutch artist Thijs Biersteker collaborated with scientist Stefano Mancuso to create this installation at the Fondation Cartier that shows the real-time impact of climate change on nature in Paris. More about Digital artwork called Symbiosia depicts effect of climate change on trees in Paris
An Ode To Manmade Land is a pair of viewpoints designed by Vector-I Architects on a man-made dyke at the Lauwersmeer National Park, in the Netherlands. More about Vector-I Architects installs pair of viewpoints on Dutch dyke to highlight rising sea levels
An exhibition of monumental geometric black sculptures by the late American designer Tony Smith on display at Pace Gallery in Manhattan brings together three works for the first time. More about New York City gallery exhibits three massive black sculptures by Tony Smith