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Milan's annual furniture fair, the Salone del Mobile, has published a manifesto calling for the city and the design industry to promote innovation and sustainability at this year's event. Read more View the full article

An intricately decorated Persian box provided a starting point for the latest range of designs from New York studio Apparatus. Read more View the full article

There are 207 interior-design projects on the longlist for the inaugural Dezeen Awards, including a revamp of a house built by Frank Gehry, a loft apartment in a former tank station and the offices of IKEA's creative team. Read more View the full article

Zaha Hadid's design for a skeletal building overlooking Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro has been shelved, according to local reports. Read more View the full article

This time-lapse footage shows the petals atop Atlanta's Mercedes-Benz Stadium, which is hosting the 53rd Super Bowl game today, slide past each other to cover the American football pitch below. Read more

Nuno Piedade Alexandre has completed a black extension to an elderly care centre in the Portuguese municipality of Ponte de Sor, which is covered with protruding windows. Read more

US architecture practice Fogarty Finger has updated portions of a 109-year-old office building in Manhattan with glazed meeting rooms, skylights and Scandinavian-style pale woodwork to help "attract young companies". Read more

Did we fool you with our spoof story today? Here are today's best architecture and design April fools including plans for a gondola in Edinburgh, a dog walking drone and Swiss Army sunglasses. Read more

The top architecture and design opportunities available on Dezeen Jobs this week, include vacancies at architecture firm Foster + Partners and coffee giant Starbucks. Read more

Tel Aviv studio Aqua Creations has launched a series of sculptural lighting fixtures that can be used individually or stacked on top of one another. Read more

British designer Samuel Wilkinson has paired steam-bent wood with Vienna straw to create a contemporary dining chair called Latis. Read more

American firm Hoedemaker Pfeiffer used stone, wood and glass to create a main dwelling and guest house for a steep, forested site in the Pacific Northwest overlooking the ocean. Read more

Multimedia artist Alex Israel has installed a Bat Signal at the MAMO Arts Centre on the roof of Le Corbusier's brutalist Cité Radieuse apartment block in Marseille, France. Read more

Designer Elissa Brunato has created the Bio Iridescent Sequin, a shimmering embellishment made from trees that is more sustainable than regular plastic sequins. Read more

Apple has advised customers of its recently launched Apple Card to keep the titanium card in a soft bag where it won't touch other credit cards, keys or loose change, and to gently clean it with a microfibre cloth. Read more

To celebrate the Egg McMuffin being available all day in McDonald's restaurants in France, TBWA has created 15 satisfying animations of the deconstructed breakfast item coming together. Read more

Architect Liam Young will speak about how he uses film-making techniques to predict the future at Dezeen Day in London on 30 October. Read more

K11 Musea is a shopping centre on the Tsim Sha Tsui harbour-front in Hong Kong, designed by an architecture team led by Kohn Pedersen Fox. Read more View the full article

A drawing of an imaginary fairyland was Wutopia Lab's starting point for the design of this kids cafe, which is located in Dalian, China. Read more View the full article

This week we've hand-picked four exciting positions on Dezeen Jobs for industrial and product designers, including vacancies at design studios Industrial Facility and Stellar Works. Read more View the full article

A row of heritage-listed townhouses in central London is now home to the Inhabit hotel, which Holland Harvey has designed to have relaxed, Scandi-inspired interiors. Read more View the full article

Marcos Zotes, co-director of Basalt Architects, explains how the firm's work explores Iceland's tradition of geothermal bathing in this livestream from Stockholm Furniture Fair. Read more View the full article

OMA has revealed its plans to renovate and extend three vacant railway buildings in Brussels to create an office for Belgium train operator SNCB. Read more View the full article

Rem Koolhaas' Countryside, The Future exhibition at Solomon R Guggenheim is more about the architect's shortcomings rather than the countryside, argues architecture critic Inga Saffron. Read more View the full article

Dyson has created 44 engineering and science activities for children to try out while at home during the coronavirus pandemic, from making a balloon-powered car to building a bridge from spaghetti. Read more View the full article