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This week's roundup from Pinterest focuses on playful ways to relax at home, featuring a Mexican guesthouse with hammocks instead of beds and a Taiwan home with a swing in the family kitchen. Read more View the full article

Following the popularity of a lakeside home featuring intricately patterned wooden screens, we've collected together spectacular examples of Austrian architecture from the pages of Dezeen and added them to a new Pinterest board. Follow Dezeen on Pinterest | See more Austrian architecture View the full article

Movie: Thomas Heatherwick talks to Dezeen about designing the UK pavilion at the World Expo in Shanghai in 2010 in this interview filmed by Dezeen at his exhibition at the V&A museum in London. (more…) View the full article

Woven hemp chairs and pine reading tables are among the pieces that Emma Olbers Design has added in its renovation of the library in Stockholm's Nationalmuseum. Read more

Benthem Crouwel Architects has designed seven new metro stations for the new Noord/Zuidlijn line through Amsterdam, which opened this week. Read more View the full article

A derelict house in London that had tunnels dug under it by the infamous Mole Man has been restored and adapted by architect David Adjaye for the artist Sue Webster. Read more View the full article

American studio Wheeler Kearns Architects has completed a single-storey residence on a wooded site outside of Chicago, featuring black facades and large windows that engage the landscape. Read more View the full article

Wearers can update their clothing with new political messaging each day, with the augmented-reality The Last Statement T-shirt from Swedish retailer Carlings. Read more View the full article

Designed in Hackney: continuing this week’s focus on Shoreditch design company SCP, here’s the Josiah pendant lamp by Terence Woodgate, first created in 2008. (more…) View the full article

Japanese studio mA-style architects has completed a metal-clad house with a smaller wooden house inside (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

This week on Dezeen: Apple's new iPhone came under fire this week, while MIT researchers proposed a system for driverless cars that could spell the end for traffic lights. (more…) View the full article

The latest edition of Dezeen Weekly includes Melania Trump's unveiling of a White House tennis pavilion, our latest Face to Face podcast featuring Thomas Heatherwick and more coronavirus news. Subscribe to Dezeen Weekly › View the full article

Design studio Splinterworks has created a sculptural waterslide that is designed to mimic the barrel-shape of a wave before it breaks. Read more View the full article

This slatted structure by architects Plasma Studio looks like it's crawling over an apartment building in the Italian Dolomites (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

SOM’s proposal for a ring-shaped observation deck hovering over New York’s Grand Central Terminal (above) leads this week’s issue of Dezeen Mail, which also contains all the latest news, jobs, competitions and reader comments from Dezeen. Read Dezeen Mail issue 124 | Subscribe to Dezeen Mail View the full article

Belgian designer Carl de Smet of Noumenon has developed high-tech foam furniture that can be squashed to 5% of its original size for easy transportation and then expanded “like popcorn” by heating it up (+ movie + interview). (more…) View the full article

Designed in Hackney: scribbled faces on fabric masks feature in the latest collection from young designers Leutton Postle, who continue this week’s look at Hackney fashion designers. (more…) View the full article

Multidisciplinary collective Studio ThusThat explored the "invisible" material of copper as a low-carbon alternative to concrete when developing its This is Copper furniture collection. Read more View the full article

In this week's comments update, readers are baffled by a shield that uses UV light to sterilise itself and protect against coronavirus. Read more View the full article

Continuing our review of 2019, Benedict Hobson picks out 10 diverse architecture projects from across China, including a collection of wooden huts on a remote mountainside and one of the largest airports in the world. Read more View the full article

Designers at Dezeen Day explained how young creatives have the potential to start their own businesses, with Dara Huang revealing that the secret to success as an entrepreneur is "finding people better than you". Read more View the full article

Auction house Sotheby's has partnered with streetwear publication Highsnobiety to create a line of t-shirts, jumpers and hoodies emblazoned with artworks dating as far back as the 16th century. Read more View the full article

Architecture studio Bradley Van Der Straeten has extended and a house on a housing estate in Stoke Newington, London, by adding an additional half storey hidden from the street. Read more View the full article

A rescued stone colonnade stands amongst planes of concrete at this religious shrine in the Spanish countryside by Pamplona studio Otxotorena Arquitectos (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

From a smart forest in Mexico to a Nevada desert city powered by blockchain, a wave of smart cities are being proposed in North America. Here are five examples from the continent that hint at the shape of future neighbourhoods. Read more View the full article