Dutch designer Daan Roosegaarde has developed a bespoke projection lens that "unravels light" to turn an arc-shaped section of Amsterdam's Centraal Station into a rainbow (+ movie). More about Daan Roosegaarde lights up Amsterdam station with rainbow projection
Design Miami 2014: wire-mesh furniture was shown against a gridded backdrop by assistants dressed in matching garments during this year's Design Miami fair (+ slideshow). More about Patrick Parrish Gallery presents gridded furniture and matching clothing at Design Miami 2014
Design Miami 2014: Seattle studio Olson Kundig Architects used stacks of timber beams to form the collector's lounge at this year's Design Miami fair (+ interview + slideshow). More about Olson Kundig Architects based Design Miami lounge on historic lumber yards
A harlequin pattern of mirrors enveloped a patch of Hungarian woodland in this installation created by Budapest-based Studio Nomad for a summer music festival (+ slideshow). More about Studio Nomad's mirror installation reflects fragments of forest at a Hungarian music festival
Design Miami 2014: Viennese design duo Mischer'Traxler has unveiled a kinetic installation for Champagne brand Perrier-Jouët featuring a table covered in plants that disappear as visitors approach (+ movie). More about Plants bloom on Mischer'Traxler's table for Perrier-Jouët when you move away from it
Design Miami 2014: a domed structure conceived by American Neo-Futuristic architect Buckminster Fuller as an "autonomous dwelling machine" has been installed in the Miami Design District. More about Buckminster Fuller's Fly's Eye Dome installed in Miami Design District
Design Miami 2014: Italian artist Massimo Uberti has bent neon tubes into the shape of a room for an installation commissioned by British motor company Bentley (+ slideshow). More about Massimo Uberti sculpts neon tubes into a room for Bentley
Medical research suggests that too much sitting down can be bad for your health, so RAAAF and Barbara Visser have developed an experimental office that encourages workers to lean, perch or even lie down (+ slideshow). More about Conceptual office swaps chairs and desks for "experimental work landscape"
Norwegian artist Per Kristian Nygård attempted to bring the outside inside with this installation that involved building grassy mounds inside an Oslo gallery (+ slideshow). More about Per Kristian Nygård crams a grassy valley into an Oslo gallery
Hundreds of plexiglas tetrahedrons rippled with waves of illumination in response to changing light conditions for this installation by design collective Pangenerator (+ movie). More about Pangenerator's installation of translucent pyramids flashes in waves of light
One of the UK's oldest food markets created The Real Apple Store to showcase 1,000 British apple varieties as part of its anniversary celebrations (+ slideshow). More about Real Apple Store created for Borough Market's 1000th birthday
A team of Austrian students installed a model city in the centre of Vienna to show how much housing and infrastructure could be built with the €19 billion (£15 billion) that the government is paying to bail out a local bank (+ slideshow). More about Austrians protest government spending with concrete model city
The permeable fabric skin of this inhabitable installation by graduates from Germany's Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design allowed moisture into the space, designed to make visitors feel like they were inside a cloud (+ slideshow). More about Iranzo, Rittler and Kesting create cocoon-like "cloud" installation
Interieur 2014: antique objects from a Belgian museum's permanent collection appear as ghostly apparitions in an exhibition by London studio Glithero (+ movie). More about Glithero exhibits artefacts as spectral illusions for Fantoom exhibition
Istanbul Design Biennial 2014: German architect Jürgen Mayer H has created a room filled with glowing pink light and ambient pink noise to explore how sleeping patterns could become "more nomadic" in the future (+ slideshow). More about "We need to redefine the sleep cycle" says architect Jürgen Mayer H
Lengths of transparent film and sticky tape wrap around the concrete columns of Paris gallery Palais de Tokyo to form a network of hollows and tunnels in an installation by Numen/For Use (+ slideshow). More about Numen/For Use creates inhabitable "corporeal" installation with sticky tape
American architects Elizabeth Diller and Ricardo Scofidio have created an installation inside the Fondation Cartier in Paris by Jean Nouvel, adding a "leak" in the ceiling with drops of water that trigger a series of reactions across two gallery spaces (+ slideshow). More about Diller and Scofidio create "mischievous" leak inside Jean Nouvel's glass gallery
Biennale Interieur curator Joseph Grima and his research collective Space Caviar took over a derelict school in Kortrijk to create an exhibition exploring how perceptions of the home have changed over time (+ slideshow). More about Joseph Grima explores changing ideas of domesticity for Biennale Interieur exhibition
The German capital is commemorating 25 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall with a trail of illuminated balloons along its former route (+ movie). More about Berlin celebrates "fall of the wall" anniversary with 8,000 glowing balloons
A spiky red wall reminiscent of a cartoon explosion is one of two installations that French artist Didier Faustino has inserted in the grounds of a 1950s villa designed by architect and sculptor André Bloc (+ slideshow). More about Didier Faustino adds "explosive architectural installation" to André Bloc's 1950s villa