Real Apple Store created for Borough Market's 1000th birthday
One of the UK's oldest food markets created The Real Apple Store to showcase 1,000 British apple varieties as part of its anniversary celebrations (+ slideshow). More
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Austrians protest government spending with concrete model city
A team of Austrian students installed a model city in the centre of Vienna to show how much housing and infrastructure could be built with the €19 billion (£15 billion) that the government is paying to bail out a local bank (+ slideshow). More
Iranzo, Rittler and Kesting create cocoon-like "cloud" installation
The permeable fabric skin of this inhabitable installation by graduates from Germany's Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design allowed moisture into the space, designed to make visitors feel like they were inside a cloud (+ slideshow). More
Glithero exhibits artefacts as spectral illusions for Fantoom exhibition
Interieur 2014: antique objects from a Belgian museum's permanent collection appear as ghostly apparitions in an exhibition by London studio Glithero (+ movie). More
"We need to redefine the sleep cycle" says architect Jürgen Mayer H
Istanbul Design Biennial 2014: German architect Jürgen Mayer H has created a room filled with glowing pink light and ambient pink noise to explore how sleeping patterns could become "more nomadic" in the future (+ slideshow). More
Numen/For Use creates inhabitable "corporeal" installation with sticky tape
Lengths of transparent film and sticky tape wrap around the concrete columns of Paris gallery Palais de Tokyo to form a network of hollows and tunnels in an installation by Numen/For Use (+ slideshow). More
Diller and Scofidio create "mischievous" leak inside Jean Nouvel's glass gallery
American architects Elizabeth Diller and Ricardo Scofidio have created an installation inside the Fondation Cartier in Paris by Jean Nouvel, adding a "leak" in the ceiling with drops of water that trigger a series of reactions across two gallery spaces (+ slideshow). More
Joseph Grima explores changing ideas of domesticity for Biennale Interieur exhibition
Biennale Interieur curator Joseph Grima and his research collective Space Caviar took over a derelict school in Kortrijk to create an exhibition exploring how perceptions of the home have changed over time (+ slideshow). More
Berlin celebrates "fall of the wall" anniversary with 8,000 glowing balloons
The German capital is commemorating 25 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall with a trail of illuminated balloons along its former route (+ movie). More
Didier Faustino adds "explosive architectural installation" to André Bloc's 1950s villa
A spiky red wall reminiscent of a cartoon explosion is one of two installations that French artist Didier Faustino has inserted in the grounds of a 1950s villa designed by architect and sculptor André Bloc (+ slideshow). More
Numen/For Use combines "height and wobbliness" in net staircase for Linz gallery
Visitors to an Austrian museum transcend the exhibition space on a steep black staircase constructed from layers of net by design collective Numen/For Use (+ slideshow). More
Robotic vacuum cleaners perform a Viennese Waltz at Biennale Interieur 2014
Interieur 2014: a troop of robotic vacuum cleaners "waltz" with each other around a school gymnasium in this installation for the Biennale Interieur event in Kortrijk, Belgium (+ movie). More
Biennale Interieur 2014 award winners realise bar concepts at Kortrijk Xpo
Interieur 2014: the winners of the spaces category at this year's Interieur Awards have built their concept bar proposals in the halls of Kortrijk Xpo for the biennial design event. More
Markus Linnenbrink's Off the Wall! installation immerses visitors in colour
Brightly coloured stripes based on refracted light run across the walls, ceilings and floors of an art gallery in Nuremberg, Germany, in this immersive installation by Markus Linnenbrink (+ slideshow). More
Sou Fujimoto stacks aluminium boxes to form "nomadic" house installation in Paris
Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto has created an installation in Paris' Jardins des Tuileries composed of suspended metal cubes and plants, for the FIAC art fair. More
Benedetto Bufalino transforms a former apartment into a tennis court
French artist Benedetto Bufalino has created a tennis court over two rooms of a gallery in Dijon, complete with fake grass, white lines and a net across the doorway (+ slideshow). More
Révélateur installation by Mickaël Wiesengrün recreates "smells of the past"
Dutch Design Week 2014: smells of sweat, grease and metal waft from the glass tubes of this installation, created by Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Mickaël Wiesengrün to add historical context to its setting in a former factory. More
Peter William Holden’s Frankensteinian robots perform dance routines to music
Synthetic human body parts mounted on robots dance to dramatic music in Dance Machines, an installation by British artist Peter William Holden in London (+ slideshow). More
Van Eijk & Van der Lubbe design "an experience in motion" for Volvo
Dutch Design Week 2014: Dutch designers Niels van Eijk and Miriam van der Lubbe have created a driverless fabric car concept for Swedish auto brand Volvo as part of a series examining how new developments in technology will change car design (+ slideshow). More
Izabela Bołoz's Intersections modules interlock to form street furniture
Dutch Design Week 2014: The interlocking modules of this street furniture by Polish designer Izabela Bołoz form flexible seating for members of the public to sit, recline or climb on (+ slideshow). More