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This film created for design video channel Nowness gives a tour around legendary Mexican architect Luis Barragán's last house – a bachelor pad turned family home in Mexico City. Read more View the full article

Artist Rolf Sachs has collaborated with Leica to cover the camera brand's M-System model in the same material used on ping-pong bats. Read more View the full article

This pavilion created for the Lisbon Architecture Triennale mishmashes the architectural styles of three studios to question authorship. Read more View the full article

Finnish practice Alt Arkkitehdit has covered a family home in northern Finland in weathering steel panels and greying spruce planks that help it to blend into its woodland setting. Read more View the full article

Three different shapes rendered in three distinct materials come together in the Elements table, launching at Biennale Interieur this week. Read more View the full article

Form Us With Love has designed the exhibitions for the new IKEA museum in Älmhult, including a giant marble run and a rainbow-hued retrospective of the company's most famous products. Read more View the full article

A huge canopy extends from one side of this auditorium in the Spanish province of Córdoba and folds over a riverside terrace, encouraging visitors to loiter around before and after performances. Read more View the full article

US studio Hollwich Kushner has transformed an old paint factory into the Pennovation Center, which contains labs, co-working areas and social spaces for entrepreneurs and researchers. Read more View the full article

The design community and foreign policymakers need to attend each other's events and communicate, if we are to find solutions to global urbanisation issues, says US Department of State advisor Ian Klaus. Read more View the full article

Lattices of dark blockwork wrap around a verdant courtyard and narrow swimming pool at this hotel in Mexico City, overhauled by local firm JSa. Read more View the full article

Lighting brand FontanaArte has been sold to a private finance company, continuing the consolidation of the Italian furniture industry. Read more View the full article

David Bowie's extensive collection of pieces by the Memphis group is set to be auctioned in London. Read more View the full article

Was advertising agency BETC right to remove the extensive graffiti during its overhaul of a derelict flour and grain warehouse? Find out what readers thought in this week's comments update. Read more View the full article

This grenade-shaped scent diffuser has been designed to alert internet users of data leaks from their smartphones, tablets and computers. Read more View the full article

Traditional elements like a bell tower are reinterpreted as pointed protrusions in this sculptural church in Monterrey, designed by architecture studio Moneo Brock. Read more View the full article

Design brands are looking for new ways to infiltrate each area of the home and are creating products that cover all the bases. From beautiful stationery to hotel shampoos, we've rounded up five of the most successful examples. Read more View the full article

Dezeen promotion: the Crea collection by Spanish lighting brand Vibia is made up of pendant, ceiling and wall lights that can be customised by designers to suit different spaces. Read more View the full article

Architecture studio Gort Scott has unveiled plans to replace an out-of-use office block in London's Walthamstow with 45 "pocket" apartments. Read more View the full article

Barber and Osgerby's creative consultancy Map has collaborated with a London startup to create a minimal new smart doorbell called Ding. Read more View the full article

Timber joints slot together in these Tetris-like gifs – the work of a young Japanese man so obsessed by joinery techniques he set up a Twitter account dedicated to the cause. Read more View the full article

The TED conference series has enabled leading thinkers, including architects, to share their ideas with the world for over 30 years. Dezeen contributing editor Jenna M McKnight has chosen some of the best presentations about the built environment from the past three decades. Read more 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

South Korean tech giant Samsung has ceased production of its Galaxy Note 7 after reports of the smartphones exploding and catching fire. Read more View the full article

Architecture studio Muf has created a new interactive gallery at London's Science Museum, featuring playground slides, a quilted theatre and a huge model of the solar system. Read more View the full article

Swedish studio Arrhov Frick Arkitektkontor has used slender stilts to elevate this timber-framed cabin into the treetops on an island in the Stockholm archipelago. Read more View the full article