Arper presents 2016 collection in colour-themed installation
Milan 2016: Italian furniture company Arper has highlighted the new colours and materials within its range by styling furniture and props into single-hued scenes. More
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Distorting mirrors frame a secret garden in Santiago's Parque Araucano
Chilean architects Guillermo Hevia García and Nicolás Urzúa have created a concealed garden fenced in by distorting mirrors for the Santiago edition of MoMA's Young Architects Program (+ movie). More
Smarin to scatter 85 foam blocks across a beach for Cannes Film Festival
Eighty-five modular foam seats modelled on "common concrete building blocks" will stack to form a beach installation by French furniture brand Smarin during the Cannes Film Festival (+ slideshow). More
London Design Festival announces installations for 2016
London Design Festival 2016: Benjamin Hubert, Alison Brooks and dRMM are among the architects and designers that will create installations for this year's London Design Festival, which is also set to include a crazy golf course part-designed by the late Zaha Hadid (+ slideshow). More
The Restaurant by Caesarstone and Tom Dixon aimed to "open up what a kitchen could be"
Milan 2016: in this Dezeen movie for Caesarstone, designer Tom Dixon explains how the four sculptural kitchens he created for The Restaurant installation in Milan were designed to satisfy "the mini celebrity chef" in people. More
Yayoi Kusama installs 1,300 floating steel balls at Philip Johnson's Glass House estate
An installation by Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama originally created for the 1966 Venice Biennale has been reconstructed near Philip Johnson's iconic Glass House in Connecticut (+ slideshow). More
OMA designs The Met's Manus x Machina fashion and technology exhibition
The Shohei Shigematsu-led OMA New York office has used translucent scrim to create a "ghost cathedral" for this year's Costume Institute exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which focuses on the convergence of fashion and technology (+ movie). More
Lindsey Adelman creates quivering tree-like lighting installation for Nike
Milan 2016: New York lighting designer Lindsey Adelman explains how she used motors to create a vibrating chandelier for Nike in this movie filmed by Dezeen at the sports brand's The Nature of Motion exhibition. More
Thatched observatory installed on roof of 1930s Sonneveld House in Rotterdam
Mexican artist Santiago Borja has built a thatched observatory on the roof of one of Holland's best-preserved Modernist houses (+ slideshow). More
Pablo Bronstein manipulates architectural imagery for choreographed Tate commission
Dancers dressed in bright red jumpers, ballet leggings and oversized pearls promenade and gesticulate within a distorted architectural setting created by artist Pablo Bronstein for his new Tate Britain show (+ slideshow). More
Dutch Invertuals' Advanced Relics exhibition displays intangibles as physical items
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
Ingo Maurer bathes Torre Velasca in red light for Audi's City Lab event
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
Marc Fornes uses over 1,000 perforated aluminium shingles for Texas park sculpture
Designer Marc Fornes has completed his first permanent installation in the US: an arching structure made of more than 1,000 perforated aluminium shingles (+ slideshow). More
Oeuffice presents collection of solid marble stools at Neoclassical Milanese hotel
Milan 2016: London design studio Oeuffice has updated its collection of stools based on Greek column capitals with white marble versions, and displayed them in a black courtyard in Milan (+ slideshow). More
LACMA pays tribute to Prince with Purple Rain Room
In memory of musician Prince, who died suddenly last week, LACMA has used purple lighting to turn the popular Rain Room installation into a tribute based on one of the musician's most famous tracks. More
SET Architects' Album Bff016 installation doubles as a photography gallery
Milan 2016: Italian firm SET Architects has wrapped fabric around a steel framework to create an installation and temporary exhibition space for ceramic tile manufacturer Florim (+ slideshow). More
Rooms – Novel Living Concepts show in Milan presents interior architecture by Italian designers
Milan 2016: a hollow head-shaped chamber by Fabio Novembre and a geometrically decorated "prison" by Alessandro Mendini are presented as conceptual interior spaces at the Rooms – Novel Living Concepts show (+ slideshow). More
Moroso's Spring to Mind exhibition celebrates 25 years of creative collaboration with Ron Arad
Milan 2016: Moroso has transformed its Milan showroom into an exhibition space filled with products by Ron Arad, marking a longstanding relationship between the Italian company and the Israeli designer (+ slideshow). More
Replica of destroyed Syrian archway erected in London's Trafalgar Square
A replica of the Palmyra Arch – a 2,000-year-old Syrian architectural landmark believed to have been destroyed by Islamic militant group ISIS – has been erected in London's Trafalgar Square. More
Maarten Baas proposes tree-grown armchair at New! Newer! Newest! exhibition
Milan 2016: plans for an oversized armchair that would be formed inside a growing tree trunk and a massive logo that changes colour with the seasons featured in Dutch designer Maarten Baas's New! Newer! Newest! exhibition (+ slideshow). More