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Clerkenwell Design Week 2016: London-based YenChen YaWen Studio has combined Jesmonite with metal powders to create a series of candle holders, pots and vases that oxidise and change colour as they age (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Ikea has launched its new indoor gardening product into stores, bringing home hydroponics to a larger market (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

New York 2016: prolific Japanese studio Nendo has unveiled a collection of furniture and lighting featuring sketch-like outlines that trace the motion of moving elements (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Coffey Architects has added a library with a perforated facade to London's Science Museum, as part of a major redevelopment that will also include galleries by Muf, Wilkinson Eyre and the late Zaha Hadid. (more…) View the full article

Princeton University is suing Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects over the school's Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment, claiming the building process was careless and took too long. Read more View the full article

Five years ago designers were injecting an element of fun into their projects: Nendo created a climbing wall of picture frames (above) at a fitness club, while architects BIG designed a winter resort hotel where guests could ski down the roof (below). (more…) View the full article

Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer has created a collection of sneakers and slip-ons for American shoe company Converse, featuring a handwritten poem celebrating the “sensual curve” for which his architecture is famous (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Cologne artist Simon Schubert creates intricate images of stately homes and palaces simply by folding plain white sheets of paper. (more…) View the full article

Space Popular is exploring how virtual reality and mass production are set to disrupt architecture. Founders Lara Lesmes and Fredrik Hellberg talk Dezeen through six of their experiments. Read more View the full article

Hackney artist Alex Chinneck has created a wall that melts in the sun as part of his research for a project to build a melting house. (more...) View the full article

Designer Thomas Heatherwick has defended the controversial Hudson Yards development in New York City, saying people "shouldn't underestimate what it takes" to build public spaces with private money. Read more

News: the proliferation of computer renderings and prototypes on sites like Dezeen is making real products "look extremely boring," according to Dutch designer Marcel Wanders. (more...) View the full article

Our job of the week on Dezeen Jobs is for an architecture curator at London's Royal Academy of Arts, which staged the Sensing Spaces exhibition in 2014 (pictured). Visit the ad for full details or browse more architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs. View the full article

Designer David Rockwell is among six trustees that have stepped down to protest Caroline Baumann's resignation as director of the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum after it was reported her departure followed an investigation into her wedding. Read more View the full article

In the wake of recent controversies surrounding the funding of major institutions – dubbed "toxic philanthropy – we must rethink the system for supporting culture, says Forensic Architecture researcher Robert Trafford. Read more View the full article

Latvian designer Anna Butele used fluorescent paint and marker pens to write inspirational messages across the walls at the new office of her interior design firm Annvil in Riga (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

News: a skyscraper shaped like a giant doughnut has been completed by Italian architect Joseph di Pasquale in Guangzhou, China (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

It’s the last day of our Dezeen Olympics and surprisingly all of the most pinned stories about the events of London 2012 aren’t directly related to the actual games, such as these Jaffa Cakes nibbled into British icons and landmarks that take the gold medal. (more…) View the full article

This school building in Norway was designed by Swedish firm White Arkitekter with copper walls and a zigzagging green roof to reference the forms and materials of a nearby historic industrial town. (more...) View the full article

Dutch designer Daan Roosegaarde has covered advertising billboards in Monterrey, Mexico in an air-purifying resin that can eat up the city's smog. Read more View the full article

Swedish brand Void has launched a watch that is only seven millimetres thick, which is now available to buy from Dezeen Watch Store. Read more View the full article

This monochrome house in the Spanish town of Mora appears split in half by a narrow recessed entrance, which extends from the street to a garden and pool at the rear (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Scroll on for all the latest from our recruitment site Dezeen Jobs, including positions with C. F. Møller Architects, Moooi and Swatch, whose headquarters in Biel, Switzerland is set for completion in the summer of 2015 (pictured). Plus this is the last chance to apply for roles with Troika, KPF Shanghai, Foster + Partners and more... (more...) View the full article

These new images reveal more details and show the interior designs for late architect Zaha Hadid's residential skyscraper currently under construction in Miami (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

We continue our high-tech architecture series with a profile of Richard Rogers, the architect of two of the movement's best-known inside out buildings, Centre Pompidou and the Lloyd's building. Read more View the full article