This week on Dezeen, we covered the news that leading Japanese architects Tadao Ando and Kengo Kuma are designing holiday homes for the American reality star Kim Kardashian.

In a recent Vogue interview, Kardashian explained how she commissioned the architects to create a "zen" mansion in Palm Springs and a lakeside lodge for celebrating the Fourth of July.

Pritzker Architecture Prize winning-architect Ando is designing a two-storey mansion with a curved triangular footprint while Kuma is said to be working on a "glass-and-wood lake house".

In architecture news, a building designed in 1952 by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe was finally realised at Indiana University in Bloomington.

New York architecture studio Thomas Phifer and Partners adapted the design to create what is now called the Eskenazi School of Art, Architecture + Design, more than 50 years after the architect's death.

In design news, MIT engineers announced the invention of a new type of plastic that is stronger than steel and has "very unusual properties".

The material, which is referred to as 2DPA-1, has similar properties to plastic as it is light and mouldable yet differs in that it has much greater strength and resistance.

Following the launch of Dezeen Awards 2022, we announced the first 15 judges.

Among the judges announced so far are notable architects Sou Fujimoto and Benedetta Tagliabue, industrialist Alberto Alessi and visual artist Charlotte Taylor.

In Dubai, the Museum of the Future opened its doors to the public. Heralded as "the most beautiful building in the world" by the emirate's ruler, the seven-storey building contains exhibits dedicated to the future and hosts workshops for testing emerging technology.

Designed by local studio Killa Design, it is positioned alongside Dubai's elevated train line near the Burj Khalifa skyscraper – the world's tallest building.

In transport news, Elon Musk's infrastructure firm The Boring Company submitted plans to build the North Miami Beach Loop tunnel in Miami.

The six-mile-long tunnel, through which a fleet of Teslas would operate, would connect the commuter railway station at Golden Glades with Sunny Isles Beach on the city's eastern coast.

Popular projects this week included a light-filled home in west London, a vacation home in Columbia and a sunken house in rural Mexico.

Our lookbooks this week focused on terrazzo floors and interiors that swap corners for curves.

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