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Handles on the tops of these pastel-coloured side tables let you easily move them around. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

To coincide with the opening of Agnes Martin's retrospective at the Guggenheim Museum in New York, fashion brand COS has created a collection based on the artist's works. Read more View the full article

Projects by HOK, Arquitectonica and Morphosis have been singled out for criticism in Trump's draft executive order for federal buildings, which would outlaw brutalist and deconstructivist styles if it becomes law. Read more View the full article

Dezeen Watch Store: four new watches with natural leather straps by lifestyle brand Nixon are now available at Dezeen Watch Store. (more...) View the full article

Ismay Schaduw is presenting a collection of bulletproof vests designed for women during VDF x Ventura Projects to raise awareness of gender inequality. Read more View the full article

Eindhoven designer Jalila Essaïdi has turned manure into haute couture, creating a poo-based fabric that has been used to make clothes (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

Photographer Filippo Poli has sent us these images of a Milan church with a grey, striped exterior by Italian studio Cino Zucchi Architetti. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

A electronically controlled stone wall slides across the facade of this house in Warwickshire, England, to conceal a large window. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

A concert hall and conference centre by Henning Larsen Architects in collaboration with artist Olafur Eliasson is under construction in Reykjavík, Iceland. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Stripes of paving, plants and lighting form the entrance to Ben- Gurion University campus in Be’er Sheba, Israel, designed by Israeli firm Chyutin Architects. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

French designer Aleksandar Dimitrov has created a 3D-printed accessory for the humble toilet-paper tube, allowing users to effortlessly convert it into a pen holder. (+slideshow) (more...) View the full article

These polished marble blocks by Milanese designer Emanuele Pizzolorusso can be arranged on your desk to make miniature monuments. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Wire: a team of engineers based in California have created a material made from a lattice of hollow metallic tubes that they claim is the lightest in the world – BBC The substance is 100 times lighter than Styrofoam and consists of 99.99% air. Tubes with a wall thickness 1,000 times thinner than a human hair are used to create the lattice structure that gives the material it’s strength. Potential applications include shock and sound absorption and thermal insulation. </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Madrid firm OOIIO has designed a lopsided photo frame-shaped hotel that appears to have crashed into a cliff face near Lima in Peru. (more...) View the full article

Japanese architects Ikeda Yukie have completed a house with rounded edges for an elderly couple. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Screen: this movie by Spanish agency impresiones [de arquitectura] shows Museo ABC, a brewery in Madrid that’s been converted into a museum by Spanish architects Arranguren & Gallegos. Watch the movie » </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Chinese product designer Sheng Yin collaborated with artist Kai Yi to create this entirely black series of wood and leather furniture. Read more View the full article

In the first of a series of video interviews with former members of Archigram for VDF, architect Peter Cook recounts how the influential avant-garde architecture group rose to prominence in the 1960s. Read more View the full article

VDF products fair: Köral is a faceted acoustic panel system by AntiCAD and architecture studio TakahashiLim A+D that takes its cues from coral reefs. Read more View the full article

Our selection of the best opportunities in architecture, interiors and design on Dezeen Jobs this week includes positions at Skidmore Ownings & Merrill and 3XN Architects. Read more

Furniture company IKEA has designed six play houses that can be built with its products to entertain children in coronavirus lockdown. Read more View the full article

Rome is trialling a scheme where people can recycle plastic bottles in return for free rides on the city's public transport system. Read more

A wooden boardwalk leads inside this timber-clad gym and spa building, designed by MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects to accompany a residence on Nova Scotia's Atlantic coast (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

IKEA and Tom Dixon have revealed the results of their collaboration: a modular bed that "explores notions of adaptability and future-proofing". Read more View the full article

Dezeen Wire: former Foreign Office Architects co-founder Alejandro Zaera-Polo has opened his new studio, Alejandro Zaera-Polo Architecture (AZPA). (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article