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A new boutique accommodation, envisioned as a "dreamy mix of the elegant and bizarre", has opened up inside a 1970s firehouse in Los Angeles. Read more

Bamboo and carbon fibre can be used together to build earthquake-proof architecture, says Japanese architect Kengo Kuma, whose Bamboo Ring is installed at the V&A for London Design Festival. Read more

Los Angeles university SCI-Arc has granted Frank Gehry an honorary masters degree in recognition of his "unparalleled" impact on architecture. Read more

American studio Wheeler Kearns Architects has completed a single-storey residence on a wooded site outside of Chicago, featuring black facades and large windows that engage the landscape. Read more View the full article

Individuals could cut their greenhouse-gas emissions by replacing meals with algae grown at home using the countertop Spira device by recent design graduate Rob Russell. Read more View the full article

Ten architects' studios in Istanbul, Turkey, opened their doors to photographer Marc Goodwin for the latest instalment in his global series. Read more View the full article

A sweeping, white-brick pavilion in Southwark Park in London by architecture studio Bell Phillips curves along the park's historic pathways. Read more View the full article

Kim Kardashian has revealed a glimpse of the "minimal style" Calabasas house that Axel Vervoordt and Vincent Van Duysen designed for the reality television star and her rapper husband Kanye West. Read more View the full article

Fashion label Gucci has opened a restaurant at the top of its store in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, which serves up a selection of Italian dishes. Read more View the full article

Danish architecture firm Henning Larsen has designed a 183-metre-tall skyscraper as part of its development of Cockle Bay Park on the Sydney waterfront. Read more View the full article

New photographs reveal that the MVRDV-designed Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen is nearing completion in Rotterdam. Read more View the full article

Studio Edwards has turned the simple A-frame cabin into a mobile home with a sleek rubber skin. Read more View the full article

Aviation consultancy Factorydesign has envisioned how social distancing could be achieved on planes after the peak of the coronavirus pandemic with its Isolation screen divider kit. Read more View the full article

Women's collective Part W has selected six women that it believes are deserving of winning the RIBA Royal Gold Medal, to help address the gender imbalance of past winners. Read more View the full article

Architectural photographer Roland Halbe has sent us his photos of a temporary market in Madrid designed by Spanish office Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Brothers Tom and Will Butterfield designed a chair-a-day for 19 days during the Covid-19 lockdown, which they plan to pass on to established creatives for them to put their own spin on. Read more View the full article

Milan 2010: at the Salone Internazionale del Mobile this week Dutch designer Marcel Wanders presents a chair made by the same blow-moulding technique used to manufacture water bottles. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Installations by London agency Troika have been tucked under the edges of the landscaping around Thomas Heatherwick’s UK Pavilion at Shanghai Expo 2010. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Yoshihara McKee Architects of New York and Tokyo have installed a bathroom and kitchen either side of a freestanding wall in a New York loft apartment. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This stepped cardboard installation was designed and built by Berlin University of Arts students to display their own work and meandered around a gallery at their summer show. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

London Design Festival 2010: this multilevel bench formed of plywood wedges is by Brussels firm JDS Architects and one of ten benches exhibited by The Lollipop Shoppe during the London Design Festival this month. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Indonesian architects Atelier Riri have designed this house in the dense residential area of Bintaro in Jakarta, Indonesia. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This blown glass lamp fitted at the end of a rope is by Italian designer Andrea Francesconi. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

These road signs have been installed at three industrial parks in Madrid by Brut Deluxe Architecture + Design of Madrid and Lisbon. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeenwire: Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs will interview designers designers Mark Braun, Kilian Schindler and Michael Hilgers of Rephorm live on stage from 12.30 in the The Ramazzotti D3 Lounge at imm Cologne today, as part of our Dezeentalks at [D3] Design Talents series. The interviews will be broadcast on Dezeen at a later date. More info plus the full schedule in our earlier story. See films of all the Dezeentalks at last year’s fair here. </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article