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A primary school building in Tel Aviv features a facade of perforated screens patterned with an image from a painting by Russian-born artist Marc Chagall – the school's namesake. (more…) View the full article

Studio Aa has converted a former boiler house in south Amsterdam to create a new headquarters for a family-run investment company (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

New flat-pack pieces from St Louis-based furniture company Artifox include a vertical bike rack and a standing desk with a writable surface (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Fashion designer Pauline van Dongen has created a coat for workers on the Wadden Sea World Heritage site, with detachable solar panels on the pockets for charging electronic devices (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Our most visited story last week was about an installation of 100,000 white balloons at Covent Garden in London. Stories about the child-friendly inflatables are always popular on Dezeen so we've assembled our all-time top ten balloon posts, including a bridge, an airship and a levitating bench. (more…) View the full article

A Southern California landscape architect is questioning why Frank Gehry was chosen to lead the masterplanning effort for the Los Angeles River redevelopment, citing a lack of expertise and public input. (more…) View the full article

London architecture studio Feilden Fowles has revealed plans for a visitors' centre with rammed-earth walls in Europe's largest modern and contemporary sculpture park. (more…) View the full article

Dutch architecture studio GAAGA has completed a three-winged wooden tea house in Leiden, the Netherlands, featuring large windows on all sides to allow panoramic views of the surrounding park (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Ikea is inviting consumers in Belgium to recycle their old catalogues into stuffing for a geometrically patterned cushion designed by Charles Kaisin. (more…) View the full article

Rafael Viñoly's Walkie Talkie skyscraper in London, which has so far melted cars and been blamed for powerful downdraughts, has been named the worst building in the UK this year. (more…) View the full article

The triangular window bays that project from the facade of this Sydney housing block by MHN Design Union appear either red or yellow, depending on the viewing angle (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

London Design Festival 2015: an exhibition by Swedish gardening house Coloni and trend forecaster Studio Aikieu will celebrate the potential of "undesirable" and wild-growing species in towns and cities. (more…) View the full article

Australian studio Made Group has completed a pool house for a Melbourne home with a faceted timber ceiling inspired by origami (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Square and circular holes puncture the concrete facade of this house in Japan by Fuse Atelier, allowing light to filter through to five small terraces concealed behind (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

NeoCon 2015: Swedish studio Claesson Koivisto Rune has unveiled a new line of chairs and tables for Teknion that unites elements of lounge and office furniture (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Design and architecture studio Conran and Partners is reworking the interior of a 17-storey block that forms part of London's Brutalist Barbican Estate, transforming it from a youth hostel into high-end apartments (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Pomo summer: the Piazza d'Italia in New Orleans, designed by Charles Moore, is one of the few icons of Postmodern architecture that isn't a building, and is next in our summer season on Postmodernism. (more…) View the full article

Fernando Romero and two other Mexican architects have unveiled plans to transform Mexico City's Avenida Chapultepec into a public park featuring trees, cafe plazas, a raised promenade and water features. (more…) View the full article

After 18 months exploring the intersection between design and technology, our multi-award-winning collaboration with MINI has come to an end. From music-making gloves to glow-in-the-dark trees, here's our round up of the five most popular movies in the series. (more…) View the full article

Developers in London claim to be building the world's first sky pool, but an even more extreme suspended glass-bottomed swimming pool is already underway in India (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

The culture, climate and resources of Tanzania's Kilimanjaro region informed the design of this refuge for victims of domestic violence, made up of various yellow buildings arranged around a courtyard (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

This month, Swedish furniture giant Ikea launched its first collection with British designer Ilse Crawford in stores and saw its modular kitchens hacked by some of Denmark's best architects. We've collected together 13 of our favourite Ikea designs and hacks from Dezeen's archive – from furniture for space-poor hipsters to a bar made from storage boxes. (more…) View the full article

This small family chapel in rural Austria has a white concrete shell and glass gable walls, allowing views right through the building to the rolling countryside beyond (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Open-source furniture company Opendesk has created customised workspace fittings for self-build computer brand Kano (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Prompted by the client's love of the Tin Man character in the Wizard of Oz, architect Jun Sekino left the steel framework of this Bangkok house exposed inside and out (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article