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Designers have been tickled pink recently. We're counting down the most-pinned examples of pink interiors on Dezeen, including a Japanese nail salon inspired by a French manicure and an Antwerp fashion boutique with a cabinet full of barbie dolls (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Yves Béhar's studio Fuseproject worked with robotics company Cobalt to create this robot security guard, designed to be in "stark contrast to the Hollywood dystopian Robocop". Read more View the full article

Milan 2012: new Italian brand Discipline launch their inaugural collection in Milan this week. (more…) View the full article

World Architecture Festival 2012: in the next movie from our series running up to this year’s World Architecture Festival, programme director Paul Finch tells us how the jury were ”bowled over” by the hand-constructed Mapungubwe Interpretation Centre by Peter Rich Architects, winner of the festival’s World Building of the Year award in 2009. (more…) View the full article

Milan 2016: Dutch furniture brand Lensvelt is producing a collection of "boring" office furniture intended to "restore the balance between work and play" in the workplace (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

World Architecture Festival 2012: architects Kristen Whittle and Ron Billard explain how meerkats, fish and open-plan offices for consultants helped provide better care for sick children at the Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne, the winner in the health category at the World Architecture Festival. (more…) View the full article

Scroll on for all the latest from our recruitment site Dezeen Jobs, including positions with UNStudio, the Science Museum and Martha Schwartz Partners, whose Grand Canal Square project in Dublin is pictured. This is also your last chance to apply for roles with Paul Smith, OMA, Priestmangoode and more... (more...) View the full article

Kulapat Yantrasast has become the go-to architect for contemporary art galleries and museums in the US. Here are 10 of his major projects that differ from typical white-box exhibition spaces, with warm materials, unusual layouts and custom furniture. Read more

News: social responsibility has fallen down the agenda of today’s designers and design schools, according to the author of a new history of Ulm School of Design, the German institution that reshaped design education in the 1950s and 1960s. (more…) View the full article

In this week's comments update, readers are frustrated with design proposals for a memorial to honour victims of the 2016 Pulse nightclub shooting. Read more

Dutch designers Niels van Eijk and Miriam van der Lubbe have created a driverless fabric car concept for Swedish auto brand Volvo as part of a series examining how new developments in technology will change car design (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Influenced by Herzog & de Meuron's recently completed leafy tower in Beirut, our featured Pinterest board this week is sowed with plant-covered buildings from around the world. It includes Studio 102's verdant office and showroom in Hanoi and a green Parisian apartment tower by Maison Edouard François. Follow Dezeen on Pinterest › View the full article

The final wave of regeneration at brutalist Park Hill estate will see 350 student homes, designed by British practice Whittam Cox Architects, built within the iconic concrete framework of the social housing complex in Sheffield, England. Read more View the full article

Models were disguised within oversized forms made from layers of wadding at this season's Comme des Garçons Autumn Winter 2017 show during Paris Fashion Week. Read more View the full article

Architecture studio Searl Lamaster Howe has used charred cedar and slate to create this holiday home for a Chicago couple. Read more View the full article

Álvaro Siza's plans for a new entrance and visitor centre at the historic Granada palace the Alhambra have been rejected. Read more View the full article

These seaside houses in Margate, England, feature pitched roofs intended to resemble traditional beach huts, and fully glazed gable ends that make the most of the sea views (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

The tree-like sculptures growing out of the tables in this canteen by Spanish architects Estudio Nômada are meant to remind diners of eating outdoors. (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 next extract chosen by Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs from our Book of Ideas is a pewter stool cast in sand on a Cornish beach. (more…) View the full article

Following the popularity of a house extension that curves around a tree, we've created a new Pinterest board filled with extensions to residential buildings. See our new residential extensions Pinterest board » Over 100,000 people now follow us on Pinterest - join them here. View the full article

Following protests about working conditions at well-known museums – like the Marciano Art Foundation and MoMa – Mimi Zeiger says it's time to address architecture's relationship to unfair labour practices. Read more View the full article

Opinion: Zaha Hadid, who died unexpectedly this week, deserves to be recognised as one of architecture's greats. But she was also difficult, even when you were on her side, remembers Amanda Baillieu. (more…) View the full article

Keep your eye on architecture and design projects that twist and turn on this week's new Pinterest board, including animated houses, spinning walls and furniture that pulls down from ceilings. Follow Dezeen on Pinterest › Read more

This house situated in an old fishing village in Sweden features pale pine floors, high ceilings and a wood-burning stove inside a concrete block (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article