Milan 2016: a minimal rocking horse by Nendo and a swing by Philippe Starck are among Italian design brand Kartell's collection of products aimed specifically at children, a key trend in Milan this year (+ slideshow). More
Milan 2016: with Milan design week just around the corner, the Dezeen team present their pick of the trends already emerging from the world's biggest and most important design fair. More
Kengo Kuma's firm has converted a concrete office building into a showroom for a Japanese textile company, and tethered it to the ground with carbon fibres to provide earthquake protection (+ slideshow). More
Milan 2016: Brazilian duo Humberto and Fernando Campana have used coloured glass to fill blob-shaped gaps in this wooden cabinet for Spanish brand BD Barcelona Design. More
Osaka studio Process5 Design created this weekend retreat in western Japan to accommodate activities that are usually impossible in a city house (+ slideshow). More
Los Angeles-based Standard Architecture has completed a store for fashion brand Helmut Lang that features smooth plaster walls, cove lighting and a light-filled garden (+ slideshow). More
Milan 2016: the latest designer rocking horse comes from Stockholm studio Front, which has based its minimal design for Gebrüder Thonet Vienna on an old bent-wood chair from the furniture brand's archive. More
Milan 2016: Toyota has created an open-top two-seater vehicle made out of wood to combat the idea that "modern cars have to be high-tech machines packed with the latest technologies" (+ slideshow). More
WeWork has unveiled images of its first foray into the co-living trend – a residential block with shared living spaces in New York's financial district, run by new sister company WeLive (+ slideshow). More
Italian artist Edoardo Tresoldi has used wire to recreate an early Christian church on an archaeological site in Siponto, a port town in southern Italy (+ slideshow). More
Milan 2016: Japanese studio Nendo has designed a transparent plastic rocking horse based on I-beams used in building construction. More
Chilean architect Alejandro Aravena, this year's Pritzker Prize winner, is releasing a number of his residential designs as an open-source resource to help tackle the global affordable housing crisis. More
Japanese architect Kengo Kuma has built a showroom and production facility for a Japanese furniture manufacturer, which features both translucent undulating walls and a simple rectangular roof. More
Zaha Hadid 1950-2016: Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs followed the career of the late Zaha Hadid for almost 20 years. Here, he gives a personal tribute. More
City dwellers are adapting to escalating house prices by living in smaller, more flexible spaces, and designers are responding with furniture that makes the most of every inch of the floors, walls, and even the ceiling. We've pulled together 10 of the best examples (+ slideshow). More
Zaha Hadid 1950-2016: the day before Zaha Hadid suffered a fatal heart attack, photographer Julien Lanoo unexpectedly stumbled across her Issam Fares Institute in Beirut, Lebanon, and created a new set of images (+ slideshow). More
Kengo Kuma and Associates has built an art centre with an intricate aluminium-moulded facade at a former cotton mill in China, which has been converted into a shop and office complex (+ slideshow). More
Six bronze statues mark the entrance to Kaan Architecten's new Supreme Court of the Netherlands, which features a facade of green glass louvres and an interior dominated by marble (+ slideshow). More
Milan 2016: British fashion designer Paul Smith has created a new striped version of the cactus-shaped coat stand launched by Italian furniture brand Gufram in the 1970s. More
Graduate design students at Iowa State University have created conceptual schemes for shelters that would house US soldiers fighting in Afghanistan and help give them a sense of safety (+ slideshow). More