Researchers at the University of Cambridge and the University of Queensland have created the HappyShield, an origami face shield that is made by folding a sheet of clear plastic. More
Japanese fashion house Issey Miyake's Autumn Winter 2020 collection features bodysuits with origami folds, multi-person rainbow knitwear and zip-off puffer outfits designed by Satoshi Kondo. More
Paper artist Marc Hagan-Guirey has recreated ten modernist buildings from folded and cut paper for his book Le Corbusier Paper Models: 10 Kirigami Buildings to Cut and Fold. More
Californian company Oru Kayak has designed a foldable kayak that can be carried on one's back for easy transportation and use. More
This private home in Kuwait, deigned by AGi Architects, features a faceted concrete shell clad in stone that folds up and around a central courtyard. More
Latticed timber triangles are raised up over three landscape mounds to form this year's MPavilion, installed in Melbourne's Queen Victoria Gardens by Barcelona-based office Estudio Carme Pinós. More
Studio Morison has installed a multifaceted mesh-covered pavilion around a statue of Maximilian I in the centre of Munich, to raise awareness for the city's homeless and impoverished. More
Portland-based design studio Ilovehandles has created wrapping paper that can have an afterlife as origami figures, to avoid the mess and waste associated with ripping the paper off presents. More
Dezeen has teamed up with Laurence King Publishing to give away five copies of Frank Lloyd Wright Paper Models – a book presenting 14 kirigami designs based on some of the architect's most popular buildings. More
Artistic duo Studio Morison has erected a pink pavilion shaped like an origami pineapple in the centre of the 18th-century walled garden of the Berrington Hall country estate in Herefordshire, England. More
Basic sheets of plastic, paper or fabric can now be transformed into complex inflatables using a method devised by researchers at MIT Media Lab's Tangible Media Group. More
Dezeen has teamed up with publisher Owl & Dog Playbooks to give away five copies of a children's book filled with pre-scored sheets for making folded paper models of fish. More
Architecture firm ANMA has completed a new Paris headquarters for France's Department of Defence, featuring a faceted roofscape that extends to the ground around the entrance (+ slideshow). More
Emerging French designer Rémi Bouhaniche has unveiled a chair that he created by folding "a trapezoidal shape of foam and fabric like origami" (+ slideshow). More
Australian studio Made Group has completed a pool house for a Melbourne home with a faceted timber ceiling inspired by origami (+ slideshow). More
It took just three and a half days to erect this temporary 6,000-square-metre structure in Mexico City's Zócalo plaza, because architecture studio MMX chose to build it from scaffolding and canvas (+ slideshow). More
Brazilian designer Bianca Cheng Costanzo has created a woollen blanket from 180 triangles hand-sewn into tessellated pyramids (+ slideshow). More
Penoyre & Prasad has reskinned the Constructivist-influenced Guy's Tower in London, giving it back its crown as the tallest hospital in the world. Architect Sunand Prasad explains how his team updated an "ugly building designed with a great deal of love" (+ slideshow + interview). More
American designers Justin Nagelberg and Matthew Waldman have reimagined the umbrella, replacing the traditional metal-framed canopy with a flexible structure that folds like origami. More
German fashion designer Jule Waibel has turned her intricate pleated paper dresses into steam press templates for wearable fabric garments that expand and contract as the wearer moves. More
