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SP-Arte may be best known as Brazil's leading art fair, but it also provides a platform for young designers. Contributor Benoit Loiseau selects his highlights of the ones to watch at this year's event. Read more View the full article

Amsterdam-based Occult Studio has designed the flagship store for eyewear brand Ace & Tate – installing wooden panels with peg holes that allow displays and mirrors to be easily moved around (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

This week, commenters are divided over whether it's time for production to start again in Italy after factories closed in a bid to fight Covid-19. Read more View the full article

Slideshow: while the face of this waterside house near Amsterdam is cloaked in perforated aluminium, the rear is entirely glazed so that residents can watch the sun setting. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Electronics companies like Apple need to make their hardware easy for anyone to open up and take apart, according to design duo Formafantasma, who are pushing designers to prioritise recyclability following a two-year research project into e-waste. Read more View the full article

A pitched roof extends well beyond the internal walls to create sheltered terraces around the edges of this summer house designed by Danish architecture studio CEBRA for a site overlooking the country's Vejle Fjord. Read more View the full article

The three pieces in the Samt Rau collection by Hamburg-based designer Natalie Weinmann are made from natural stone and solid oak with their potential uses left open to interpretation by the individual (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

In his latest photo series, Sebastian Weiss hones in on bright white details of Santiago Calatrava's Valencian art complex, blocking out the larger picture to capture a blanched kaleidoscope of repeating struts and identikit forms. Read more View the full article

Swiss architecture firm RDR chose corrugated metal to cover a sprawling agricultural complex in Patagonia where cows and sheep are reared. Read more View the full article

Homes without internal walls, kitchens or bathrooms are being billed as a solution to housing crises around the world, after NL Architects won the Mies van der Rohe Award for its refurbishment of the Kleiburg apartment block in Amsterdam. Read more View the full article

This stacking chair by New York designer Victor Vetterlein has an x-shaped frame and razor-thin legs. (more…) View the full article

This time last year Chinese architects MAD unveiled plans for a museum shaped like a giant icicle and a mirrored treehouse in Sweden opened up its doors to overnight guests. Japanese designers Nendo presented a collection of furniture comprised entirely of square and cube-shaped parts, while an RCA student came up with a fun way to recycle leftover Christmas trees and we featured a mirrored office with a hidden slide entrance. Readers were impressed with the sensitive detailing of a mountainside tomb but thought a self-assembly chair by designer Max Lamb would only be able to support the super-skinny. Meanwhile we revealed images of a few popular houses, including a…

A steel staircase outside this renovated summerhouse in western Spain spirals up onto a roof terrace with a view of the sea. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Platform: in this movie Royal College of Art graduate Sarah Colson presents her Portrait Machine, an interactive tool that allows her to create layered portraits using a sheet of glass, acetate and a distortion lens. Watch the movie » </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Architecture studio Archer + Braun has renovated a Victorian villa in Edinburgh, adding a glazed extension with red limestone cladding. Read more View the full article

Central Saint Martins graduate Keyi Chen has reinterpreted everyday desk accessories as stress-relieving devices called Inte-rest-ing that encourage people who work long hours to play at their desks. Read more

Berlin-based art collective Plastique Fantastique has created an open-source, retro-futuristic face shield shaped like a fish bowl to protect wearers against coronavirus. Read more View the full article

A mature fir tree would be enclosed at the centre of this conceptual tubular glass house by Kazakh architect Aibek Almassov, which may finally become a reality now that potential investors have been found (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

UK charity Art Fund's crowdfunding campaign to save artist and filmmaker Derek Jarman's cottage in Dungeness from being sold to a private owner has been successful. Read more View the full article

Sam Jacob Studio has turned the two dimensional graphics of cartoon strips into three dimensional architecture to create the colourful interiors of the Cartoon Museum in London. Read more

New York design studio Snarkitecture is celebrating a decade of projects with an exhibition at the National Building Museum in Washington DC, which includes a white gabled house and a kidney-shaped ball pit. Read more View the full article

Play "spot the woman" in this photo set of an apartment that references Tel Aviv's 1950s interiors by Israeli practice Jacobs-Yaniv Architects (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Designer Zhekai Zhang has developed a method of staining porcelain with used coffee grounds to mimic the texture of marble, and applied the technique to a collection of lamps called Coffire. Read more

Interstellar comets become vehicles for space travel between the different planetary systems of our galaxy in this conceptual design by New York-based Clouds Architecture Office (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

London designer Tom Dixon will launch a range of iridescent stoneware pendant lights at next month’s London Design Festival. (more…) View the full article