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Children can nestle into yellow alcoves and pull wooden furniture out of the walls at this school in Madrid by Rica Studio, which uses play to teach the English language. Read more View the full article

Swiss designer Fabienne Felder has worked with University of Cambridge scientists Paolo Bombelli and Ross Dennis to develop a way of using plants as "biological solar panels". (more...) View the full article

100% design director William Knight is leaving his London post to head up Dubai Design Week. Read more View the full article

IKEA was a prominent fixture in the news this week as they released their first skateboard, while reports emerged that the Swedish furniture company were considering converting a Brutalist building in Connecticut into a hotel. Read more View the full article

Next in our series of movies about 3D printing we talk to Bart Van der Scheuren, vice president of Belgian additive manufacturing company Materialise, who explains how the three main 3D printing technologies work. (more...) View the full article

Venice Architecture Biennale 2016: a curving, bright blue structure reminiscent of a boat fills the inside of Serbia's Biennale pavilion – to symbolise young architects' difficult crusade to find employment. (more…) View the full article

Horny guests at New York's newly opened hotel Public are ruffling the feathers of neighbours by leaving the curtains open while they have sex. Read more View the full article

Hoxton architects Edgley Design have tucked a rubber-clad residence and aluminium artist’s studio behind a row of semi-detached houses in Hackney. (more…) View the full article

London Design Festival: this mechanical contraption by artist Martin Smith and his design company Laikingland will wake you up by chirping like a bird (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

Movie: in this movie filmed by Dezeen at today’s preview of Heatherwick Studio: Designing the Extraordinary at the V&A museum in London, Thomas Heatherwick demonstrates the machine that dispenses guides to the exhibition from huge rolls of paper, inspired by newspaper printing presses. (more…) View the full article

We've selected our pick of the top architecture and design roles on Dezeen Jobs this week, including vacancies at Norweigan firm Snøhetta and Swedish furniture retailer IKEA. Read more View the full article

Milan 2012: these little storage containers by Swedish designers TAF are made of silicone but coloured to look like clay. (more…) View the full article

Chinese studio Neri&Hu has designed the biggest-ever retail department at London department store Selfridges, dedicated to women's underwear, sleepwear and sportswear (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

The big news this week was Toyo Ito's Pritzker Prize win and you can check out his key projects in our slideshow. Scroll on for more highlights of the week in design and architecture, plus the track of the week from Dezeen Music Project. (more...) View the full article

Japanese designer Yota Kakuda used a bespoke aluminium tile to cover the walls and floors in this shop that sells baked cheese tarts (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Architecture firm Wolfgang Tschapeller has renovated a library at Cornell University and added suspended shelving, which prompted criticisms about the potential for upskirting when it opened in earlier this year. Read more View the full article

This weathered steel-clad artist's studio by architect Christian Tonkin has an angled body that follows the slope of the hill, but one end projects out to frame views out over the rooftops of nearby Bregenz (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Central Saint Martins graduate Yeyang Liao has created Coffin chair, an item of furniture that the owner can be cremated in after they die. Read more

Architects including Will Alsop, Patrik Schumacher, Tom Kundig and Reiulf Ramstad joined Dezeen during the World Architecture Festival last week for the launch of Dezeen Decade – a year-long celebration marking our 10th birthday. See party photographs on Facebook › View the full article

Daily coronavirus briefing: today's architecture and design coronavirus briefing includes delays to work on Notre-Dame Cathedral and an intensive care unit in a shipping container. Read more View the full article

In this week's comments update, readers are looking forward to the world's first wooden football stadium being completed and are disappointed in Virgil Abloh's fashion collection with Paris's Musée du Louvre. Read more View the full article

Fashion designer Ruchika Sachdeva's label Bodice is developing a "new language of modernity" for women in India who want a minimalist alternative to traditional garments or designer formalwear. Read more View the full article

Is the nuclear family home an architectural tool of repression and social control? asks Phineas Harper. Read more

Interview: after building the most talked-about urban development in Buenos Aires, Argentinian hotelier and property developer Alan Faena has now turned his attention to Miami Beach, where he has commissioned architects including Rem Koolhaas and Norman Foster to create the Faena District Miami Beach. In a rare interview, he told Dezeen about his plans (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

A suspended ceiling folds erratically around the uppermost apartment of a Lisbon block that Portuguese architect Jorge Mealha has refurbished. (more…) View the full article