Pikaplant creates self-watering systems for automatic plant maintenance
Milan 2015: Amsterdam design company Pikaplant has developed a collection of self-watering products aimed at making plant-keeping easier. More
-
OMA's Fondazione Prada art centre opens in Milan
Rem Koolhaas' firm has converted a century-old distillery in Milan into a new arts centre for Fondazione Prada, featuring a "haunted house" clad in 24-carat gold leaf and a cinema camouflaged by mirrors (+ slideshow). More
Textured brick and concrete house in Sydney encloses a garden courtyard
Sydney office Aileen Sage Architects designed this house for one of its partners around a "secret garden" containing a circular patio for outdoor dining (+ slideshow). More
Little Catch fishmonger in Shanghai is lined with a metal-frame "net"
Shanghai design studio Linehouse has overhauled a former takeaway restaurant to create a small fishmonger's on a busy street in the middle of the city's former French Concession (+ slideshow). More
Responsive Street Furniture adapts public spaces to suit pedestrians' needs
Street furniture prototypes designed to make cities more adaptable for disabled people are on show as part of the Designs of the Year exhibition at London's Design Museum (+ movie). More
Foster + Partners presents rippled concrete Expo pavilion for the United Arab Emirates
Milan Expo 2015: a pair of sinuous rippled concrete walls frame the entrance to UAE's Milan Expo pavilion, designed by Foster + Partners to suit the climate conditions in both Milan and Abu Dhabi. More
Architects Teehouse redirect
Architects Teehouse adds an angular steel-clad home to a Japanese dairy farm
The faceted metal surfaces of this addition to a dairy farmer's house in the Japanese city of Sodegaura fold around a courtyard that connects it with the original building (+ slideshow). More
Colonel uses colour to update handcrafted materials for 2015 furniture collection
Isabelle Gilles and Yann Poncelet, founders of French design brand Colonel, have paired traditional craft techniques such as woven rattan and marquetry with colourful accents for their latest range (+ slideshow). More
New Pinterest board: salons and spas
Following the popularity of a minimally designed hair salon in Japan, we've collected together the best examples of barber shops, beauty parlours and spas from the pages of Dezeen and added them to a new Pinterest board.
5468796 Architecture covers apartment building in reflective panels of glazing
Reflective glass panels applied to the exterior of this condominium building in Winnipeg, Canada, produce a mirrored image of the street in front (+ slideshow). More
Zero Energy Furniture stores heat to regulate room temperature
Milan 2015: this table by designers Raphaël Ménard and Jean-Sébastien Lagrange absorbs and releases thermal energy depending on the temperature of the room. More
Colourless scenes whizz past during music video for The Road
Music: director Julien Lassort's animation to accompany ALB's track The Road depicts a metaphorical journey through life using simple black and white imagery. More
Jovan Mitrović wraps a glass-walled sports hall in protective timber battens
This underground sports hall for a school in the Serbian town of Obrenovac is topped with a glass box covered in vertical wooden laths to protect it from stray balls (+ slideshow). More
Austria's Milan Expo pavilion contains a forest filled with clouds of mist
Milan Expo 2015: behind the wooden walls of Austria's national pavilion, a team led by architect Klaus K Loenhart has planted enough trees to provide a source of oxygen for up to 1,800 people (+ slideshow). More
V&A's What is Luxury? exhibition questions the value of objects
The What is Luxury? exhibition at London's V&A museum features over 100 "luxury" objects, from a diamond made out of roadkill to furniture and accessories decorated with human hair (+ slideshow). More
Lollipop-making kit by Tessa Geuze is designed to create homemade seasonal treats
Milan 2015: Dutch design student Tessa Geuze has created a miniature confectionary kit for users to produce handmade lollipops with seasonal ingredients (+ slideshow) More
Daniel Libeskind unveils his "handcrafted dragon" at the Milan Expo
Milan Expo 2015: Daniel Libeskind has completed his dragon-inspired pavilion at the Milan Expo, which features a sinuous body and a scaly red and gold skin (+ slideshow). More
This week on Dezeen
This week we reported on Foster's Crossrail Place roof garden, Marc Newson's record-breaking Lockheed Lounge and the opening of the Milan World Expo (pictured). Read on to catch up with the latest architecture and design news. More
Anti-Expo protests turn violent in Milan
Police have fired teargas at protesters opposing the Milan Expo on its opening day, who have set fire to cars and plastered the city in anti-Expo graffiti. More