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Gensler has completed an irregularly stacked office block with a brick facade in New York that echos the factories and warehouses of its Williamsburg waterfront location. Read more

The Irthi Contemporary Crafts Council has paired Bedouin craftswomen in the UAE with international artists to create items that can be sold to a global market. Read more

Amsterdam-based Studio Drift has created an installation of 3,000 blue blocks, which each represent the plastic used to make an individual supermarket bag, at the Van Abbemuseum for Dutch Design Week. Read more View the full article

Dezeen promotion: design company Luminaire is hosting an exhibition at its Miami Design District showroom featuring works by industrial designer Konstantin Grcic, architect and designer Piero Lissoni and fashion designer Ann Demeulemeester. Read more View the full article

Ford's latest electric vehicle is the first addition in 55 years to its lineup of Mustangs – the classic American cars known for their powerful engines. Read more View the full article

IKEA has sold a brutalist tower by Marcel Breuer in Connecticut to a local architect and developer, who plans to turn it into a zero net energy boutique. Read more View the full article

Basketball player Stephen Curry and sports brand Under Armour have created a sneaker influenced by architect David Adjaye's Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Read more View the full article

Velvet poufs, rearrangeable shelving and bathroom cabinets feature in this collection of furniture that American design company Henrybuilt has based on designs made for private clients. Read more View the full article

Last week, we announced plans for an online design week called Virtual Milan. Dezeen's founder and editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs explains why this was the wrong thing to do, and what we intend to do about it. Read more View the full article

London studio Bompas & Parr has predicted design and lifestyle trends that will emerge during and after the coronavirus pandemic, including sanitiser party pieces and a museum dedicated to touch. Read more View the full article

Architect Rob Arlt and his group of students in South Dakota have completed an experimental gabled passivhaus in South Dakota, which they claim is the first in the area to "sell energy back to the grid". Read more View the full article

British designer Faye Toogood discusses her unconventional career path and the story of her latest collection in this video interview as part of our ongoing collaboration with Friedman Benda for VDF. Read more View the full article

Architecture studio Alma-nac has extended and added a second grey-brick skin to a 1950s property in Brockley, south London to create a contemporary family home. Read more View the full article

A chair designed by American recording artist and producer Pharrell Williams will be on show at Gallerie Emmanuel Perrotin in Paris next week. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Grassy gardens top the Maggie's Centre for cancer patients built by Heatherwick Studio in the grounds of St James's University Hospital in Leeds. Read more View the full article

Milan 2010: international designers including James Irvine, Konstantin Grcic and Jasper Morrison have created a collection of marble furniture for Italian stone company Marsotto, unveiled this week in Milan. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Design Miami/Basel is underway in Switzerland, where Paris designer Arik Levy presents these new pieces with Dutch gallery Priveekollektie. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

DezeenTV: here’s another video shot by Brazilian photographer Pedro Kok, this time the Marquise do Parque do Ibirapuera in São Paulo, Brazil, designed by Oscar Niemeyer in 1952. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This staircase curls between two floors of an apartment designed by Hong Kong studio Davidclovers. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

French architects RDAI have completed this new Paris boutique for fashion brand Hermès inside a 1930s swimming pool building. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Cologne 2011: this folding table by Swedish designers AKKA is one of two joint winning projects in this year’s [D3] Contest, an international competition for young designers organised by trade fair imm cologne. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeenwire: London firm AL_A have won a competition to design an extension to the Victoria and Albert museum in London. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Screen: this movie filmed by Dezeen in Milan features Nick Regan, one of the co-founders of kinetic object company Laikingland, presenting their recent work at Ventura Lambrate. Watch the movie » </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Wire: Chicago firm Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture have won a competition to design the Wuhan Greenland Center in Hubei province, China, which is set to be the world’s fourth-tallest building. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Furniture designers’ obsession with clamps has taken a new turn with this stool held together with one of the woodworking tools. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article