Tiles decorated with hair and a dissolving washbasin made of soap are among the student projects featured in Behind Closed Doors, an exhibition by the Design Academy Eindhoven and Kaldewei at Berlin design festival Currents. More about Design Academy Eindhoven students reinvent the bathroom for a resource-scarce future
As Currents festival kicks off in Berlin, founders Laura Ewert and Jasmin Jouhar tell Dezeen why they hope the event will finally bring the local design community the recognition it deserves. More about "Industry in Germany is no longer open to what design can do" say Currents Berlin organisers
Local practice Bruzkus Greenberg has redesigned a penthouse apartment in Berlin, adding a blue-stained wooden core that contains key functions including the entrance and built-in banquette. More about Bruzkus Greenberg arranges compact apartment around multifunctional "blue box"
Local studio Bruzkus Greenberg has designed a community co-working space in Berlin, filled with bespoke furniture created to shake off the impression of a branded showroom. More about Berlin co-working space offers "more than a boring desk"
Wood, granite and stainless steel elements enrich the otherwise bare concrete interior of this cafe in Berlin, designed by Spanish firm Plantea Estudio. More about Plantea Estudio transforms austere concrete shell into Berlin's Acid cafe
Interior designer Rachael Gowdridge has transformed a 19th-century building in Berlin into The Dean hotel, combining historic features with bespoke details and vintage objects to lend the spaces an eclectic feel. More about Rachael Gowdridge avoids "generic hotel feel" in The Dean Berlin
Glass bricks and stainless steel characterise this apartment by Berghain designer Studio Karhard, renovated to capture the mood of Berlin's most famous nightclub. More about Berlin apartment designed to be "Berghain in a homely context"
Conversation pits in every suite and bathtubs that double as speakers are among the new additions to the 25hours Hotel Bikini Berlin as part of a renovation by Studio Aisslinger. More about Studio Aisslinger revamps Berlin hotel in city's "signature improvised style"
German studio Batek Architekten has designed the T7.2 dental clinic in Berlin using saturated colours and tactile materials to give the space an "inviting, artful atmosphere". More about Batek Architekten arranges gallery-like dental clinic around acrylic glass cube
Media company Highsnobiety and organisation Bauhaus-Archiv have collaborated on a collection that includes homeware, a clothing line, and an embossed Marcel Breuer D4 chair. More about Highsnobiety and Bauhaus-Archiv release collection featuring Marcel Breuer chair
Spanish practice Plantea Estudio has completed the interior of Acid bakery in Berlin, which features a palette of austere and functional materials chosen to echo its urban context. More about Plantea Estudio creates "frank and efficient German ambience" inside Acid Berlin bakery
British-Nigerian designer Yinka Ilori has created the Reflection in Numbers pavilion, which is designed to encourage reflection on racism in sport ahead of the Euro 2024 football tournament. More about Yinka Ilori designs mirrored pavilion for self-reflection at Haus der Kulturen der Welt 2024
An old bookshop in Berlin is now home to the studio of architecture and interior design practice Gisbert Pöppler, which incorporates the building's grand arched doorways and other original features. More about Gisbert Pöppler creates own office and showroom inside former Berlin bookshop
Modular furniture, app-operated doors and a self-serve bar are among the experimental ideas being trialled at MM:NT, a mini-hotel in Berlin that will constantly evolve in response to feedback from guests. More about ACME and BWM design adaptable interiors for MM:NT apartment hotel
A former department store that became a famous artists' squat is now home to Fotografiska Berlin, a photography museum featuring interior design by German designer Werner Aisslinger. More about Studio Aisslinger transforms historic Berlin art squat into Fotografiska Berlin
Berlin-based architects Gustav Düsing and Max Hacke have created a modular and demountable steel-framed pavilion for the Technical University of Braunschweig in Germany. More about Gustav Düsing and Max Hacke design modular study pavilion for German university
Promotion: Corian Design and its Quality Network Partner fabricator Hasenkopf aim to achieve durability and "timeless elegance" in a complex of luxury apartments in Berlin. More about Corian Design aims to achieve "exceptional durability" in Berlin apartment complex
A pared-back palette of raw materials creates a calm backdrop for PSLab's lighting products inside the brand's Berlin workshop and showroom space, designed in collaboration with Belgian firm B-bis architecten. More about PSLab's monochromatic Berlin showroom is a "sacred place for light"
Dutch studio MVRDV has unveiled Haus 1, a bright yellow workplace adapted from a 1990s office building in Berlin with local studio Hirschmüller Schindele Architekten. More about MVRDV completes yellow office retrofit with zigzagging outdoor staircase
Glass screen doors, bespoke furniture and natural textures draw on the waterside location of Locke at East Side Gallery hotel in Berlin by architecture studio Grzywinski+Pons. More about Grzywinski+Pons designs Locke at East Side Gallery to "capture the strange magic" of Berlin