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A row of aluminium ribs curves away from the serrated glass facade of this research laboratory in England to help shelter occupants from the sun (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Bedrooms the size of a single mattress are slotted two-high into the walls of this wooden guesthouse in Japan by Alphaville Architects, which takes its cues from capsule hotels (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Young Georgian designer Lado Lomitashvili has completed a bookstore-cum-cafe in Tbilisi, which he hopes will "raise the quality of taste" in the city. Read more

Dezeen and MINI Frontiers: created for Lady Gaga, the Volantis is the world's first flying dress and heralds the beginning of a new era for human flight, says designer Benjamin Males. (more...) View the full article

Triangle-shaped towers fitted with smart technology form the centre of Lahdelma & Mahlamäki Architects competition-winning masterplan for Helsinki. Read more View the full article

Brighton University graduate Laila Laurel has designed a chair that prevents people from "manspreading", as part of a project that aims to offer solutions to sexist issues experienced by women. Read more

This small wooden cabin by London-based architect Sini Kamppari perches among trees on a granite ridge, offering views of a lake in southeast Finland (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

This extension to a woodland home in Ontario by Canadian studio UUfie features charred cedar walls and a mirrored entrance (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

US firm Lake Flato has built a waterfront retreat in Austin, Texas, featuring a two-storey porch and a slender lap pool that runs alongside the home (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

American firm Lake Flato has designed a riverfront park in southern Texas, with sculptural pavilions that provide shade on sunny days and help collect rainwater during storms. Read more View the full article

This brick courtyard house by Auckland studio Glamuzina Paterson Architects sits at the foot of a mountain in New Zealand's Otago region (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Aamodt Plumb Architects divided this prefabricated house in Texas into two wings to avoid felling a group of trees, covering one half in black-charred timber and the other in bright white stucco. (more…) View the full article

This water sports centre with a green roof was designed by Guinée*Potin Architectes and is set into a grassy bank by a lake in western France (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

This blackened-timber house by Maximilian Eisenköck provides a holiday home for three siblings and their spouses overlooking a lake near Vienna (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Dive Architects has completed a lake house in an isolated woodland to the north of Stockholm designed to gradually "merge with nature" as the surrounding birch and pine forest grows. Read more View the full article

Behind the burnt-timber exterior of this sauna by Canadian studio Partisans is a cavernous cedar interior that emulates the form of a seaside grotto (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Architectural photographer Roland Halbe has sent us some images of this town hall in Spain by Madrid architects Mansilla+Tuñón that is composed of overlapping circular discs. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

The old agricultural buildings of Quebec informed this modern farmhouse near Montreal, which features walls of reclaimed wood, steeply pitched roofs and a secluded inner courtyard. Read more View the full article

Canadian design studio Lambert & Fils has launched a lamp collection in collaboration with Swiss designer Adrien Rovero, and opened a gallery in Montreal where the designs debuted. Read more

Montreal design studio Lambert & Fils has used the limbo of lockdown to create four "brothers and sisters" for its popular Dorval 01 light, which are being displayed digitally for the first time as part of the VDF x Sight Unseen collaboration. Read more View the full article

New York 2016: Canadian design studio Lambert & Fils has balanced pairs of glass globes within folded metal frames for its Laurent lighting collection, designed as a reinterpretation of classic pendant lighting (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

The Lamborghini Sián is the Italian automaker's first hybrid supercar to go into production, boasting an electric powertrain that makes it the "fastest Lamborghini of all time". Read more

The head of this lamp by London designer Klemens Schillinger can rotate freely without the interruption of wires. (more...) View the full article

Dutch designer Daniel Hulsbergen created this intricate lamp from materials similar to those he used as a child to make model gliders. (more...) View the full article

This flat circular lamp by Japanese designer Jun Yasumoto was designed to resemble an owl's wide eyes at night. (more...) View the full article