For Design Week Mexico 2026, design studio 2x1 displayed works by French and Mexican designers on plinths in the gardens of Casa Ortega, a rarely opened private residence designed by local architect Luis Barragán in the 1940s. More about Recycled-plastic plinths hold furniture at "secret" Barragán house in Mexico City
US-based designer Behnaz Farahi and the Critical Matter Group at the MIT Media Lab have projected sounds and video of the ocean alongside crowd-sourced messages into a public square for the university's inaugural Future Fest symposium. More about Behnaz Farahi creates Ocean of Dreams video installation for MIT Future Fest
Omar Gandhi Architects has collaborated with furniture maker Brodye Chappell to build a house and workshop with a corrugated metal facade on Prince Edward Island, Canada. More about Omar Gandhi designs house and studio with "striking silhouette" for furniture maker
Architecture practice Andy Matthews Studio has unveiled a black, contemporary cricket pavilion on Dulwich Common, south London. More about Andy Matthews Studio designs Dulwich cricket pavilion to be antithesis of "off-the-shelf generic designs"
Local studio Allan Joyce Architects used courtyards and covered walkways to connect this charred timber-clad home in Nottinghamshire, UK, to its countryside surroundings. More about Openings "dissolve boundaries" at Sable House by Allan Joyce Architects
Riverside Modern is a book documenting the mid-century modern homes of Studley Park in Melbourne. In this roundup, its author Jake Taylor selects 10 standout residences from the architectural enclave. More about Ten homes from the mid-century "time capsule" Studley Park
Designers Lukas Wegwerth and Corinna Dehn have unveiled their Armadillo furniture pieces, clad in facade shingles from buildings in Germany's Vogelsberg region, at the Companions exhibition at London's Galleri Fumi. More about Armadillo furniture is clad in reused shingles to resemble "friendly monsters"
Researchers at Southern Illinois University Carbondale have developed a 3D-printed cookie for space travel, using yeast to transform plastic and agricultural waste into an edible, protein-rich food. More about NASA-backed research project creates 3D-printed cookies from plastic
Architecture studio OMA has broken ground on the Frank Liu Jr Academy for Music and Arts charter school in Houston, a pre-K through eighth-grade institution housed in a former coffee plant. More about OMA to convert Houston coffee plant into music school with instrument-informed architecture
Architecture studio Grimshaw and landscape architect Aspect Studios have completed a visitor experience centre for one of Australia's most-visited natural landmarks, the Twelve Apostles in Victoria. More about Grimshaw completes rammed-earth visitor centre for Twelve Apostles in Australia
US studio Wheeler Kearns Architects has completed a brown-metal and limestone house organised around a courtyard on the shore of Lake Michigan, in Michigan, USA. More about Wheeler Kearns Architects staggers brown-metal house on Lake Michigan shore
Dezeen School Shows: a proposal that integrates findings from magpie behavioural research into the landscape design of a Melbourne waterfront is among the projects from students at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. More about Waterfront designed to support magpie population among projects from Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Architect Donald Insall, founder of Donald Insall Associates and known for his conservation and renovation work, including on Windsor Castle, has died at the age of 100. More about "Pioneering conservationist" Donald Insall dies aged 100
Architecture studio Pearce+ has created a timber pavilion in Camden, London, to draw attention to the need for shade in the UK and encourage people to build their own DIY shading. More about Guerrilla Shading Pavilion demonstrates that "shade doesn't need to be expensive or complicated"
Dutch Design Week kicks off in Eindhoven this Saturday. To help you navigate the many exhibitions, installations and events taking place across the city, here are 10 of our picks. More about Ten things to have on your radar ahead of Dutch Design Week 2026
Italian studio Formafantasma has created Ocean & Climate Village, an exhibition at fashion brand Prada's Luna Rossa base in Cagliari, Sardinia, that uses "design as an educational tool" to show the importance of the ocean. More about Formafantasma creates "travelling science exhibition" for Prada and IOC
Dezeen Showroom: a collection of fully upholstered, pillowy seating comprising a sofa and armchair is among five new products featured on Dezeen Showroom. More about Profondo seating by Zenith Interiors among five new products on Dezeen Showroom
Swedish designer Gustaf Westman has teamed up with media company Disney to transform its Mickey Mouse character into furniture and accessories that convey "joy and playfulness" ahead of a wider product collaboration. More about Gustaf Westman creates Mickey Mouse-shaped sofa and cup for Disney
Cloaked in layers of white disks, architecture studio BIG has revealed plans for a mixed-use building in Tirana containing apartments, offices, cultural spaces and water features. More about BIG designs cloud-like Tirana Fountain Plaza raised above public park
Architecture studio Roomoor has completed Monastic Field, a concrete home within a temple precinct in Baleshwar that recalls the rock-cut monk's dwellings of the Deccan Plateau. More about "Monolithic" concrete house informed by rock-cut monastic homes
Design studio Gundry & Ducker has renovated the interiors of a Grade II-listed workshop for Cassette, a Parisian-style bistro that has recently opened in the heart of London's West End. More about Gundry & Ducker draws on French dining culture for London restaurant Cassette
Nota, the company behind hotelier Not a Hotel, is set to create its first cultural space with the opening of Not a Museum, which will be designed together with Tokyo creative collective SKWAT. More about Not a Hotel to open Not a Museum at Imperial Hotel Plaza Tokyo ahead of demolition
Promotion: designer Ruud van Oosterhout of RVO Design chose Italian stone brand Antolini's natural stone to bring the interiors of an 18th-century canal house "back to life". More about Luxurious Antolini natural stones breathe life into historic Amsterdam canal house
From hastily installed sheds and tents to more intricate structures with signage and considered design, author Penny Hardy highlights the absurdity, delight and ingenuity of dining sheds installed in New York during the Covid-19 pandemic. More about Ten pandemic-era dining sheds that show "wildly different tastes" of New Yorkers
An expansive gabled ceiling illuminated by clerestory windows shelters the open living spaces of Sugi House, a home in Kyoto designed by Japanese studio Ujizono Architects. More about Home in Kyoto is a "subtle rearranging" of familiar spaces