Architects and designers act as furniture for The Living Room
Designers Lucas Maassen and Alexandre Humbert have made a series of photo collages of established creatives impersonating furniture and household items. More
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Carlo Ratti's Eyes of the City exhibition in Shenzhen tracks visitors with facial-recognition tech
Architect and MIT professor Carlo Ratti stokes the surveillance debate with his biennale exhibition, which is set in a working train station in China and uses facial-recognition technology. More
Lucy McRae offers an escape from the digital with Future Survival Kit
Los Angeles-based artist Lucy McRae has created a survival kit for a post-apocalyptic future, designed to be carried on the body like a mountain porter. More
Superflux shows how future homes might face realities of climate change in 2219
Design studio Superflux has built a vision of a typical Singapore home in 2219, with features including homemade hunting tools, snorkelling equipment and a mini hydroponic farm. More
Morag Myerscough designs "biophilic" cafe pavilion covered in plants and colourful tiles
British designer Morag Myerscough has created a brightly coloured cafe topped with plants to help improve the wellbeing of office workers in a revamped office building in London's Broadgate. More
Åsa Stenerhag creates peculiar ceramics for Alien Autopsy exhibition
Stockholm-based artist Åsa Stenerhag has created a series of ceramic objects that she suggests might be alien body parts. More
Ten of the most original Christmas trees of 2019
We've rounded up some of our favourite Christmas trees of the year, including not one but two inspired by the Bauhaus and a Lego dragon in Christmas tree form. More
Dezeen's top 10 installations of 2019
Next up in our review of 2019, Kristine Klein picks out the 10 most arresting installations on Dezeen, including Banksy's pop-up, pink seesaws slotted between the border wall and a sauna at Burning Man. More
Yinka Ilori creates brightly coloured Christmas tree for London hotel
Yinka Ilori has rounded off a busy year by designing a stylised Christmas tree for London's Sanderson hotel, featuring his signature colourful and graphic aesthetic. More
Anne Hardy transforms Tate Britain into a ghostly Christmas ruin
Artist Anne Hardy has decorated the facade of London's Tate Britain gallery to make it look like a temple marooned by rising sea-levels, in a bid to raise awareness about the impact of climate change. More
Designers of Björk's Cornucopia show "ignored the concert rule book"
Icelandic singer Björk worked with creatives from the theatre world who tore up the rule book to create a "delicate" set for her Cornucopia tour. More
Sasha Bikoff references 1990s Versace campaigns for Design Miami exhibit
New York interior designer Sasha Bikoff has designed furniture that takes cues from looks in Versace's old fashion campaigns for an exhibition in Miami. More
Six installations that call attention to the climate-change crisis
The United Nations announced this year that there is just over a decade to limit the effects of global warming. Here are six installations by architects, designers and artists that aim to raise awareness of the climate crisis and influence change. More
Nathalie Du Pasquier creates brightly coloured brick sculptures for Mutina
Artist and designer Nathalie Du Pasquier has translated her fascination with bricks into a site-specific exhibition comprising seven totem-like sculptures made from stacked bricks glazed in bright colours. More
Daniel Arsham turns his Design Miami booth into a cabinet of curiosities
New York designer Daniel Arsham and design gallery Friedman Benda have installed a translucent green box to launch futuristic furnishings at this year's Design Miami. More
Elmgreen and Dragset builds a bent swimming pool in Miami
German artists Elmgreen and Dragset have installed a sculpture that looks like an U-shaped swimming pool outside the Miami Beach Convention Center. More
Artist Leandro Erlich creates sand-covered traffic jam on Miami beach
Argentinian artist Leandro Erlich has created sand-covered sculptures of 66 cars and trucks, which he has arranged to resemble a traffic jam on Miami Beach in a bid to raise awareness of the climate-change crisis. More
Five installations at Miami art week 2019
With activities kicking off in Miami for this year's art week, including Art Basel and Design Miami, we've selected the exhibitions and installations not-to-be missed, including an inflatable bubble gallery and a sand-covered traffic jam. More
Hou de Sousa wraps rebar in colourful string for installation outside New York's Flatiron Building
Architecture studio Hou de Sousa has built three volumes, constructed rebar and covered in bright cords, to form "gateways, apertures and seating" in front of New York City's Flatiron Building for this holiday season. More
House installed inside MAAT gallery to draw parallels between queerness and incarceration
Portuguese artists João Pedro Vale and Nuno Alexandre Ferreira have erected a two-storey building inside the MAAT in Lisbon, filled with references to "dissident forms of sexuality". More