Alex Chinneck unzips a building in Milan's Tortona district
British artist Alex Chinneck has unveiled an installation that sees an old Milanese building ripped open by giant zips. More
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Arthur Mamou-Mani promotes circular design with bioplastic Conifera installation for COS
French architect Arthur Mamou-Mani has assembled a structure from 700 bioplastic bricks in the courtyard of a 16th-century palazzo, as this year's Milan design week installation for fashion brand COS. More
Dornbracht installation aims to challenge the way people experience water
Dezeen promotion: German kitchen and bathroom manufacturer Dornbracht has unveiled plans for a virtual-reality installation at this year's Milan design week, which will examine how technology can change the way people interact with water. More
Christo to wrap silver fabric around the Arc de Triomphe in Paris
Artist Christo will finally realise plans to envelop Paris' Arc de Triomphe in 25,000 square metres of silvery recyclable fabric and 7,000 metres of red rope. More
Invisible Landscapes installations explore how virtual reality will change architecture
The Royal Academy of Arts has unveiled a series of installations that show how virtual and augmented reality technologies can change the experience of buildings and spaces. More
Watch JR construct a giant optical illusion around IM Pei's Louvre Pyramid
This time-lapse movie shows the installation of street artist JR's paper trompe l'oeil at the Louvre Pyramid in Paris, France. More
Optical illusion added to IM Pei's Louvre pyramid then immediately destroyed
Artist JR has created a giant 3D optical illusion from paper that imagines the iconic pyramid at the Musée du Louvre in Paris continuing underground, but it has already been destroyed. More
Top 10 architecture and design exhibitions: spring 2019
To continue our quarterly guide to the best architecture and design exhibitions around the world, we've chosen 10 of the best to visit. To find out about industry events taking place in April, May and June, such as Milan design week, look at our comprehensive month-by-month guide. More
Katie Paterson invites UK public to build sand mountains
Bioplastic buckets in the shape of mountains will be distributed across 25 UK beaches this summer as part of a participatory art project by artist Katie Paterson. More
Adam Nathaniel Furman creates 3D-printed totems for ITV ident
London designer Adam Nathaniel Furman has created an abstract sculpture that features in a short animation created for UK broadcaster ITV. More
Useful/Beautiful exhibition at Yorkshire stately home asks if craft is still relevant today
Contemporary craft by makers such as Studio Toogood, Max Lamb and Anthony Burrill have been woven into the grand interiors of Harewood House as part of its first craft and design biennial. More
Digital billboards in Stockholm project positive artworks to cheer up anxious commuters
Clear Channel and design studio Affairs have created The Emotional Art Gallery which uses the real-time emotions of commuters to replace adverts with artworks. More
Circular design to be showcased at Norwegian Presence in Milan
Furniture, lamps and jewellery by designers from Norway, which demonstrate sustainable design and the circular economy, will be displayed at an exhibition called Join at this year's Milan design week. More
Trevor Paglen's art installation in limbo in earth's orbit
American artist Trevor Paglen has launched the first artwork into space, but it is yet to be activated because of fallout from the US government shutdown. More
Bouroullec brothers design Paris fountains with 3,060 Swarovski crystals
French designers Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec have collaborated with Swarovski to design six bronze fountains embellished with over 3,000 crystals on the Avenue de Champs-Elysées in Paris. More
IKEA upcycles furniture into colourful Wildhomes for Wildlife
IKEA worked with UK artists and designers to create this series of animal habitats, repurposed from the company's used furniture. More
Polish modernist Jadwiga Grabowska-Hawrylak is celebrated in Manhattan retrospective
A scale model of a concrete housing complex features alongside architectural photography in this New York exhibition, detailing the works of Polish modernist architect Jadwiga Grabowska-Hawrylak. More
Lines light installation demonstrates the "catastrophic impact" of rising sea-levels
Finnish artists Pekka Niittyvirta and Timo Aho have shone three lines of light across a Scottish coastal town in this installation that aims to show the impact of climate change. More
Lee Broom presents over 100 lights with exhibition in a Sydney underground car park
British designer Lee Broom has opened an exhibition of his work called Park Life, in a car park beneath the Space Furniture showroom in Sydney. More
Bosco Sodi builds brick Atlantes installation to accompany Tadao Ando's Casa Wabi
Mexican contemporary artist Bosco Sodi has handmade thousands of bricks and built them into this symmetrical set of 64 cubes on a beachfront site near to Tadao Ando's Casa Wabi in Oaxaca, Mexico. More