London Design Festival 2016: a Kickstarter campaign has launched to bring a crazy golf course designed by architects and designers including Tom Dixon, Paul Smith and the late Zaha Hadid to Trafalgar Square in London (+ slideshow). More
Norman Foster has completed a Maggie's Centre for cancer care in his home town of Manchester, featuring a timber-lattice structure, an angular greenhouse and a flower garden (+ slideshow). More
French studio Barbarito Bancel Architectes has draped a Dior clothing boutique in Miami in an assemblage of sculpted white panels, intended to evoke a pleated skirt (+ slideshow). More
Shigeru Ban has travelled to Ecuador to help with disaster relief, following a major earthquake that has caused the death of over 650 people. More
It's World Stationery Day! We've pencilled in designs for unusual writing accessories, including a pen for architectural drawing by Shigeru Ban and a desk tidy set that resembles a still-life painting. See more stationery »
A wooden structure and hand-built joinery are left exposed throughout the interior of this compact house in Osaka Prefecture, Japan, by architecture studio Hitotomori (+ slideshow). More
Milan 2016: Dutch designer Piet Hein Eek has launched a range of new furniture and accessories, which includes a simple table lamp with a moulded ceramic shade (+ slideshow). More
Engineer and inventor James Dyson has revealed a design for a hairdryer that is silent to human ears and controls its own temperature to protect hair from heat damage (+ movie). More
US firm Lake Flato has built a waterfront retreat in Austin, Texas, featuring a two-storey porch and a slender lap pool that runs alongside the home (+ slideshow). More
Milan 2016: this year's Dutch Invertuals exhibition in Milan featured tactile objects designed as physical representations of emotions, beliefs and even galactic phenomena (+ slideshow). More
Milan 2016: from the end of the fame-chasing student, to the rise of creative directors at furniture brands and the future of the kitchen, Dezeen editor Anna Winston highlights eight trends from this year's Milan design week and Salone del Mobile that could have much wider implications for the industry. More
Milan 2016: German lighting designer Ingo Maurer turned Milan's Torre Velasca into a glowing red beacon with an installation for car brand Audi during Milan design week (+ slideshow). More
Opinion: three years ago Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs wrote an impassioned article complaining about the frustrations of visiting Milan during its annual design week. This year he found more to smile about. Here's his take on the 2016 fair. More
Vo Trong Nghia Architects has designed a city hall for the Vietnamese city of Bac Ninh comprising a pair of planted towers, which lean together at the centre to frame a series of elevated viewing decks (+ slideshow). More
Comments update: readers have been discussing Bjarke Ingels' impact on architecture this week, after Time magazine named him as one of this year's most influential people. More
New York-based Studio Dror has proposed adding another huge domed structure to Montreal's Expo 67 site on Île Sainte-Hélène, where Buckminster Fuller's Biosphere has sat for almost 50 years (+ movie). More
Zaha Hadid Architects has been selected to design a building for a technology park near Moscow, the first major project the firm has secured since the death of its founder last month. More
EU referendum: German photographer Wolfgang Tillmans has designed a set of posters to encourage UK residents to vote to stay in the European Union, after branding the official Remain campaign "lame" (+ slideshow). More
New York's Museum of Modern Art has issued a letter to quell speculation over the closure of its architecture and design galleries. More
Dezeen promotion: American furniture brand Emeco has launched a new armchair by British designer Jasper Morrison at this year's Milan design week, as part of his Alfi collection made using reclaimed materials (+ slideshow). More