Dezeen promotion: Samsung has created an interactive installation for Milan design week that allows visitors to create art by breathing, talking and moving. More
Google has partnered with scientists on a Milan design week exhibition that shows how different aesthetic experiences can impact our health and wellbeing. More
Dezeen promotion: Italian office furniture manufacturer UniFor has collaborated with Israeli designer Ron Gilad to create an installation that imagines Napoleon reading a giant book at this year's Milan design week. More
British artist Alex Chinneck has unveiled an installation that sees an old Milanese building ripped open by giant zips. More
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
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
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
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
Neri Oxman's Mediated Matter Group at MIT has designed an installation using melanin — and says the skin pigment will inevitably be used in architecture. More
This time-lapse movie shows the installation of street artist JR's paper trompe l'oeil at the Louvre Pyramid in Paris, France. More
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
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
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
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
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 worked with UK artists and designers to create this series of animal habitats, repurposed from the company's used furniture. More
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
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
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
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