An insect provided the inspiration for this office building in Leiria, Portugal, which comprises a concrete block raised off the ground on 16 triangular feet (+ slideshow). More
Milan 2015: 20 studios from both sides of Ireland's north-south border were invited to collaborate on projects that aim to show the breadth of the island's creative industry – including one firm that hasn't shown in the Italian city in more than 60 years (+ slideshow). More
Milan 2015: Dutch designer Mark Sturkenboom has created a "memory box" containing a dildo with a compartment for storing the ashes of a deceased partner. More
A driveway cuts through one wing of this three-pronged house in New York state, which is topped by a roof terrace with amphitheatre-style seating (+ slideshow). More
Milan 2015: London designer Kacper Hamilton has created a complex sand-timer that uses weights to measure the passing of seconds and minutes (+ slideshow). More
Our latest Pinterest board is filled with tea houses by architects and designers including Shigeru Ban, Sou Fujimoto and Tokujin Yoshioka.
The chunky quartzite walls of this library on the outskirts of Paris are faceted to accommodate the span of a century-old walnut tree at the centre of the site (+ slideshow). More
Milan 2015: furniture, ceramics and glassware by Norwegian designers have been collected together for an exhibition intended to show the country's contribution to Scandinavian design (+ slideshow). More
Danish studio Kilo has designed a set of headphones that allow users to create different arrangements of headbands, earpads, cables and speakers (+ movie). More
Dezeen promotion: the winners of this year's A' Design Award and Competition include a curvaceous wood-lined sauna and a lamp designed to be smashed by its user. More
British firm Hawkins\Brown has added a music school and boarding house to a school in Surrey, England, featuring sandy coloured brickwork and timber screens that reference musical annotation (+ slideshow). More
Tufts of brightly coloured electrical cabling give the walls and furniture of this bar by Japanese architect Kengo Kuma a hairy appearance (+ slideshow). More
Milan 2015: these crystal-shaped lamps by Prague duo Jan Plecháč and Henry Wielgus were designed with 3D-modelling software but made using traditional Czech glass-cutting techniques. More
An Eames House Bird stands guard on the porch of this tiny yellow building in Seoul, which has been adapted by Nordic Bros Design Community to house a fashion boutique (+ slideshow). More
This week we reported on the latest setback to hit Thomas Heatherwick's Garden Bridge project, the downsizing of 3D-printing pioneer MakerBot and Renzo Piano's new home for the Whitney Museum (pictured). Read on to catch up with the latest architecture and design news. More
Opinion: you don't have to like Thom Mayne's skyscraper for Vals to understand that architecture needs fantastical projects like it, says Owen Hatherley. More
Milan 2015: design companies are launching fragrances, scented products and cosmetics to diversify their brands into new markets (+ slideshow). More
Dezeen promotion: Dezeen has teamed up with the annual What Design Can Do conference to give readers a 15 per cent discount on tickets for this year's event in Amsterdam. More
Renzo Piano's new building for one of New York's most prestigious museums has been described by critics as an "art tanker", "ungainly" and "more clunky than romantic" – but they like it anyway. More
Japanese designer Tokujin Yoshioka has built a transparent glass tea house beside a historic Buddhist temple in Kyoto, Japan (+ slideshow). More