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Australian architects Edwards Moore have completed this glowing art studio in a car park. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Jill Magid, the American artist who made a diamond ring out of Luis Barragán's ashes, has released a film documenting her preoccupation with the Mexican architect. Read more

A retrospective exhibition of British artist David Watkins’ jewellery opens tomorrow at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Bioplastic buckets in the shape of mountains will be distributed across 25 UK beaches this summer as part of a participatory art project by Katie Paterson. Read more

Argentinian artist Leandro Erlich has created sand-covered sculptures of 66 cars and trucks, which he has arranged to resemble a traffic jam on Miami Beach in a bid to raise awareness of the climate-change crisis. Read more View the full article

The next part of today's VDF collaboration with ArkDes features a video interview with Australian artist Linda Tegg, who has temporarily rewilded the car park outside Sweden's national centre for architecture and design. Read more View the full article

Guest artists will be invited to live and work inside this shard-like timber hut. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

An American artist has turned the remains of legendary Mexican architect Luis Barragán into a diamond, and is offering to exchange the gem for the architect's professional archive, which is currently housed on the Vitra campus (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

One of Anthony Gormley‘s sculptures appears to guard the entrance to the British artist’s new galvanised steel workshop, designed by London architects Carmody Groarke. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This steel-and-glass box perched above an abandoned limestone quarry in West Virginia is designed by Wiedemann Architects to provide a living space and workshop for a Parisian sculptor. Read more View the full article

The headquarters of Facebook, Apple and Google feature in this series of relief sculptures by artists Ben Langlands and Nikki Bell. Read more View the full article

Wolfgang Tillmans, Anish Kapoor and Ai Weiwei are among the six artists that have designed covers for ES Magazine celebrating the "resilience of London" in the wake of the Grenfell Tower fire and recent terror attacks. Read more View the full article

Benjamin + Beauchamp Architects has renovated CFA Voysey's Winsford Cottage Hospital in Devon, England, and turned it into a holiday home for the Landmark Trust charity. Read more View the full article

The tables at these offices for Arts Council England by Moxon Architects can be hoisted out of the way to lie flat against the walls when not in use (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Future Makers: in this exclusive movie, Italian architect Arturo Vittori explains how his wooden Warka Water structures can provide clean drinking water for rural communities in the developing world. Read more View the full article

Italian studio LDA.iMdA Architects converted this former warehouse in northern Italy into a design showroom and then concealed it behind gauzy black curtains. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Here are some photos of Zaha Hadid’s installation in the Arsenale at the Venice Architecture Biennale, comprising a huge pleated metal funnel. (more…) View the full article

Zaha Hadid will present a pleated metal funnel at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2012 later this month (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

Engineering firm Arup and architecture studio CLS Architetti have revealed plans to 3D print a one-bedroom house at this year's Milan design week. Read more View the full article

Architects and engineers from Arup Associates teamed up to design this curvaceous pedestrian and cycling bridge, which has been built over the inlet of the Swan River in Perth, Australia (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

News: engineering firm Arup has produced prototype 3D-printed steel construction joints that could be used to create more efficient structures. (more...) View the full article

News: the world's first building to be powered entirely by algae is being piloted in Hamburg, Germany, by engineering firm Arup. (more...) View the full article

The Arvo Pärt Centre, which is dedicated to the Estonian composer, is deep in an pine forest and has no main entrance or exit. Read more

A multi-sensory exhibition at the V&A's Norfolk House Music Room, created as part of this month's London Design Festival, aims to bring the work Estonian composer Arvo Pärt to life through his own words. Read more View the full article

Cherry-shaped pendant lights hang from metal branches on the ceiling of the AS Aperitivo bar in Ljubljana by Slovenian designer Nika Zupanc. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article