IKEA Temporary presents kitchen concepts at Milan pop-up
Milan 2015: IKEA has collaborated with designers to create kitchen installations focused on children, disabled people and the future of cooking at a pop-up space in Milan (+ slideshow). More
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Geneva students make ink from salamanders and electricity from dog poo for Milan show
Milan 2015: a machine that converts dog poo into battery power, fashion accessories laced with catnip and a 3D printer that uses ink made from salamander bacteria are among products designed by students from the HEAD Geneva School of Art and Design. More
Lee Broom's fake department store installation opens in Milan
Milan 2015: London designer Lee Broom has joined together three shops on Milan's Via Alfredo Cappellini to create a faux department store for displaying his latest products (+ slideshow). More
Snarkitecture creates warren of textile ribbons for COS
Milan 2015: over 100,000 metres of translucent white fabric is cut into strips to create this tunnel-like installation by New York studio Snarkitecture for fashion brand COS (+ movie). More
Scholten & Baijings upholsters Herman Miller seating in gridded fabric
Milan 2015: Scholten & Baijings has covered a selection of Herman Miller furniture in fabric that features a nine-metre repeat of geometric patterns (+ slideshow). More
The Mothership by Akoaki is a mobile DJ booth for playing funk on the streets of Detroit
Architecture studio Akoaki has created an angular aluminium pod called The Mothership, which contains a DJ booth for staging pop-up events and funk concerts in Detroit's North End neighbourhood (+ slideshow). More
Penda creates landscape of purple pillars for audio-visual installation in a Chinese park
Visitors to a park in Xiangyang are greeted by over 500 bright purple fins, which are dotted with LEDs and play traditional Chinese music from internal speakers (+ slideshow). More
Raw Edges installs dye-soaked wooden floor across 19th-century sculpture gallery
Curved wooden benches and stools "grow" from a gridded floor of dyed timber installed in the sculpture gallery at English stately home Chatsworth House. More
André Fu creates "modern Asian" installation for COS presentation in Hong Kong
Hong Kong designer André Fu has installed glass cubes and a miniature zen garden on one of the city's piers to create a presentation space for fashion brand COS. More
Faye Toogood designs gender-neutral retail spaces for London's Selfridges
London department store Selfridges has opened concept retail spaces free from gender directives, created by designer Faye Toogood (+ slideshow). More
Antony Gormley occupies French gallery with monumental metal sculptures
British sculptor Antony Gormley has filled a Parisian gallery with an impenetrable structure made from grids of steel, and an army of figures made from stacked metal cubes (+ slideshow). More
Designers convert lifeguard towers into winter pavilions for Toronto's frozen beaches
Lifeguard outposts along Toronto's frozen waterfront have been converted into a series of installations and pavilions, including a set of bright red swings and a spiky timber folly (+ slideshow). More
30,000 red shoelaces hang from the ceiling of Melbourne's Camper store
Brazilian architect Marko Brajovic has fixed thousands of bright red shoelaces to the undulating ceiling of this Camper footwear shop in Melbourne (+ slideshow). More
Warming Huts provide shelter for ice-skaters on Winnipeg's frozen river
A cafe in a cross-shaped tent, a mirrored hideaway and a pop-up art gallery are among the shelters that architects have dotted along a frozen river in Winnipeg, Canada (+ slideshow). More
Waterfalls flow over catwalk at Hunter fashion show
Cascades of water tumbled from scaffolding-supported troughs into a pool at the centre of the catwalk for British outerwear brand Hunter's London Fashion Week show (+ slideshow). More
Daan Roosegaarde's Waterlicht installation mimics northern lights in Dutch skies
Dutch designer Daan Roosegaarde has created a lighting installation that resembles the aurora borealis above a flood channel of the Netherlands' River IJssel (+ slideshow). More
Travelator catwalk carries models around House of Holland fashion show
Models wearing hazard-striped garments stood still as conveyor belts transported them past guests at House of Holland's London Fashion Week presentation (+ slideshow). More
Wooden poles randomly strike the ground at Zimoun's installation in New York
Vertical wooden laths cyclically pummel the floor of a cavernous New York factory building in this installation by Swiss artist Zimoun (+ movie). More
Parked car is upended on a tarmac wave in Alex Chinneck installation
A section of tarmac appears to have been peeled back from the surface of a car park at London's Southbank Centre, suspending a car upside down in artist Alex Chinneck's latest illusionary installation (+ slideshow). More
Yusuke Seki showcases fragile hemp textiles across banks of metal rods
Lengths of delicately woven fabric were draped over metal skewers at this Tokyo exhibition about the tradition of hemp textiles in Japan (+ slideshow). More