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The latest edition of Dezeen Weekly includes a building by Morphosis that some readers think looks like Donald Trump's hair and detailed images showing the surface of the sun. Subscribe to Dezeen Weekly › View the full article

US brand Native Shoes has developed a sneaker that is entirely made from one continuous sheet of algae-enriched EVA in a bid to clean up the footwear industry. Read more View the full article

Berlin architect Elisabeth Lux has designed a writing desk for furniture brand e15 with sliding storage compartments that can be pulled out and rearranged. (more...) View the full article

Norwegian urban furniture brand Vestre has won the best stand award at Stockholm Furniture & Light Fair for an installation featuring re-usable materials and information about the carbon footprint of every product. Read more View the full article

Geometric shapes balance precariously atop misshapen forms in this abstract sculpture series by Swedish designer Malou Palmqvist. Read more

John Wardle Architects imagined a landscape with ravines, clearings and escarpments when designing the spaces of the Learning & Teaching Building at Monash University's Clayton Campus in Melbourne, Australia. Read more

Dezeen remembers Pritzker Prize-winning architect Zaha Hadid, who has died suddenly aged 65, with a selection of projects that demonstrate her importance to contemporary architecture (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

News: Zaha Hadid has designed a building shaped like a field of sand dunes to house the headquarters of Middle Eastern environmental company Bee'ah. (more…) View the full article

We continue our high-tech architecture series by looking at the highly flexible and adaptable Herman Miller Factory in Bath, which was designed by Terry Farrell and Nicholas Grimshaw in 1976. Read more View the full article

In this movie filmed by Dezeen, British designer Benjamin Hubert explains why he placed a double-length second hand over the pleated face of Plicate, his first watch for Italian accessories brand NAVA, which is available from Dezeen Watch Store now. (more…) View the full article

Extra Moooi: running a successful design company is about striking a balance between order and chaos, says Robin Bevers in his first video interview since taking over as CEO of Dutch brand Moooi (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

Tomato vines suspended over conference tables and broccoli fields in the reception are part of working life at this Japan office by Kono Designs (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Zaha Hadid's latest skyscraper project (pictured), Apple's leaked iPhone 6 design and Ikea's "Bookbook" spoof dominated the news this week. Read on for more architecture and design highlights from the past seven days, plus our Dezeen Music Project track of the week. (more...) View the full article

A courtyard garden divides the two sides of this concrete house in Vienna, which has been squeezed onto a plot just five metres wide by local architecture studio Caramel (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Graduate shows 2016: Japanese architect Terunobu Fujimori worked with students from Kingston University to create this tiered pavilion, which is clad in pieces of charred timber, zinc and chestnut wood (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

The Australian Institute of Architects has this year awarded the country's most prestigious architecture award to "controversial and contentious" studio ARM Architecture (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

London Design Festival 2016: 50,000 metal triangles make up British designer Benjamin Hubert's undulating Foil installation, which casts light onto the V&A's medieval tapestries (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

The next movie in a series about the buildings of Slovenian practice OFIS Arhitekti features a social housing block on the outskirts of Ljubljana with a latticed facade inspired by local Alpine hayracks. (more…) View the full article

Sports brand Adidas has created the world's first football boot to have an upper knitted entirely from yarn (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

News: Italian firm Mario Cucinella Architects has won a competition to design a telecommunications agency headquarters in Algeria with proposals for a fin-like form referencing sand dunes and traditional Mediterranean architecture (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Architects Tom and James Teatum designed this co-living space in Hammersmith to include informal work and living spaces that they hope will encourage millennials to spend more time at home. Read more View the full article

London's Design Museum has unveiled its exhibition programme for 2020, with a major show about fashion brand Prada due to open in September. Read more View the full article

American architect Steven Holl has just been given the go-ahead to build a pair of skyscrapers linked by a cycle and pedestrian bridge 65 metres above Copenhagen's harbour. But he's not the only one with ambitious plans for linked towers. Other recent examples include proposals for a trio of plant-covered buildings by Vietnamese architect Vo Trong Nghia and a pair of residential buildings in London bridged by a transparent swimming pool. See more linked towers on Dezeen » View the full article

A masterplan drawn up by architecture firm Snøhetta envisions an "island" neighbourhood for 12,000 students off the Danube river in south Budapest. Read more

News: Zaha Hadid's planned extension to a centre for studying Middle-Eastern culture at the University of Oxford is set to begin construction later this month (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article