Dezeen promotion: German kitchen and bathroom manufacturer Dornbracht has unveiled plans for a virtual-reality installation at this year's Milan design week, which will examine how technology can change the way people interact with water. More about Dornbracht installation aims to challenge the way people experience water
Artist Christo will finally realise plans to envelop Paris' Arc de Triomphe in 25,000 square metres of silvery recyclable fabric and 7,000 metres of red rope. More about Christo to wrap silver fabric around the Arc de Triomphe in Paris
The Royal Academy of Arts has unveiled a series of installations that show how virtual and augmented reality technologies can change the experience of buildings and spaces. More about Invisible Landscapes installations explore how virtual reality will change architecture
Neri Oxman's Mediated Matter Group at MIT has designed an installation using melanin — and says the skin pigment will inevitably be used in architecture. More about Neri Oxman builds with melanin for Totems project
This time-lapse movie shows the installation of street artist JR's paper trompe l'oeil at the Louvre Pyramid in Paris, France. More about Watch JR construct a giant optical illusion around IM Pei's Louvre Pyramid
Artist JR has created a giant 3D optical illusion from paper that imagines the iconic pyramid at the Musée du Louvre in Paris continuing underground, but it has already been destroyed. More about Optical illusion added to IM Pei's Louvre pyramid then immediately destroyed
Bioplastic buckets in the shape of mountains will be distributed across 25 UK beaches this summer as part of a participatory art project by artist Katie Paterson. More about Katie Paterson invites UK public to build sand mountains
Clear Channel and design studio Affairs have created The Emotional Art Gallery which uses the real-time emotions of commuters to replace adverts with artworks. More about Digital billboards in Stockholm project positive artworks to cheer up anxious commuters
American artist Trevor Paglen has launched the first artwork into space, but it is yet to be activated because of fallout from the US government shutdown. More about Trevor Paglen's art installation in limbo in earth's orbit
French designers Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec have collaborated with Swarovski to design six bronze fountains embellished with over 3,000 crystals on the Avenue de Champs-Elysées in Paris. More about Bouroullec brothers design Paris fountains with 3,060 Swarovski crystals
IKEA worked with UK artists and designers to create this series of animal habitats, repurposed from the company's used furniture. More about IKEA upcycles furniture into colourful Wildhomes for Wildlife
A scale model of a concrete housing complex features alongside architectural photography in this New York exhibition, detailing the works of Polish modernist architect Jadwiga Grabowska-Hawrylak. More about Polish modernist Jadwiga Grabowska-Hawrylak is celebrated in Manhattan retrospective
Finnish artists Pekka Niittyvirta and Timo Aho have shone three lines of light across a Scottish coastal town in this installation that aims to show the impact of climate change. More about Lines light installation demonstrates the "catastrophic impact" of rising sea-levels
British designer Lee Broom has opened an exhibition of his work called Park Life, in a car park beneath the Space Furniture showroom in Sydney. More about Lee Broom presents over 100 lights with exhibition in a Sydney underground car park
Mexican contemporary artist Bosco Sodi has handmade thousands of bricks and built them into this symmetrical set of 64 cubes on a beachfront site near to Tadao Ando's Casa Wabi in Oaxaca, Mexico. More about Bosco Sodi builds brick Atlantes installation to accompany Tadao Ando's Casa Wabi
Lighting designer Michael Anastassiades has brought together a collection of his work from the past 12 years for the Things That Go Together exhibition at The Nicosia Municipal Arts Centre in his native Cyprus. More about Michael Anastassiades presents his sculptural lighting in retrospective at NiMAC
IKEA's research lab Space10 has crafted a miniature wooden village to demonstrate how communities could create their own circular clean energy system. More about Space10's SolarVille project proposes communities generate and share energy
Doric columns, arches and vaulted ceilings are among the architectural details that Matthew Simmonds has carved from stone in these intricate sculptures. More about Matthew Simmonds explores historic architecture in stone sculptures
Artist Joe Sweeney has installed a phone box on the English coast that invites people to share their feelings about Brexit, in an interactive public artwork called +44. More about Brexit phonebox on Dungeness beach invites the public to "leave a message for Europe"
Barcelona-based designer Guillermo Santomà installed a series of sculptural and "transgressive" structures in the lavish interior of a baroque-style mansion in Madrid. More about Guillermo Santomà inserts sculptures inside 19th-century mansion in Madrid