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Three decades of work by the Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson including an indoor rainbow and a tunnel of fog prompt visitors to London's Tate Modern to think about their impact on the planet. Read more

A sloped section of roof joins this timber-clad extension by Melbourne studio Julie Firkin Architects to the adjacent weatherboard house (+ slideshow). (more…)

Static boardroom meetings will swing into action around this table with hanging chairs created by Christopher Duffy for British design brand Duffy London. (more…) View the full article

Five years ago this week woven materials and netting featured heavily in architecture and design, as Thomas Heatherwick completed an undulating facade of woven steel around the entrance to a London hospital (above) and graduate designer Sarah Moucher presented a light made from removable ceramic links (below). (more…) View the full article

Designer Adam Nathaniel Furman has created a pair of chairs based on intimate parts of the body. Read more View the full article

Adobe employees can play basketball and ping pong inside the software company's new mural-covered Utah campus by San Francisco-based designers Rapt Studio (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

MVRDV has completed a white and gold entertainment complex, The Imprint, next to South Korea's Incheon Airport, with facades that incorporate elements of nearby buildings. Read more View the full article

The UK government is set to announce a ban on all combustible cladding, including the type used to refurbish Grenfell Tower before the fatal fire in 2017, on buildings over 18 metres high. Read more View the full article

Spanish lighting designers Luzinterruptus scattered 10,000 glowing books across the ground at Federation Square in Melbourne this summer for a lighting festival dedicated to reading. (more…) View the full article

This week Dezeen is in Cape Town so here's a steampunk-inspired coffee shop in the city by South African designer Haldane Martin. (more...) View the full article

Architect Greg Dutton has designed this treehouse-like, off-grid retreat on his family's property in rural Ohio to be sustainable and in sync with the surrounding environment. Read more

Brutalism: one of the earliest known examples of Brutalist architecture in America is Paul Rudolph's Yale Art and Architecture Building in New Haven, Connecticut, an imposing, fortress-like building that juxtaposes masses of textured concrete with layers of steel-framed glazing. (more...) View the full article

Jonathan Hendry Architects has built a beach hut clad in red-stained timber on top of an old toilet block in the English seaside town of Sandilands. Read more View the full article

Dezeen promotion: Tequila Don Julio asked the Dezeen team to put together a last-minute Christmas gift guide. Here's a selection of designerly items that have impressed us over the past year and will be buying for our friends and families. (more...) View the full article

Slovenian designer Nika Zupanc has referenced an essay by English writer Virginia Woolf to create a latticed writing room and furniture for French fashion house Dior. (more...) View the full article

A theatre for flying monks, a pink and green striped house and tower complex built around a "plant-covered mountain" are among 218 architecture projects that made the longlist for the first Dezeen Awards. Read more View the full article

These seven star-shaped lights appeared in the flat expanse of Nevada's Black Rock Desert during this year's Burning Man festival (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Competition: we're offering readers the chance to win sets of Bookman bicycle lights in two new colours. (more...) View the full article

This week was all about hyper-realistic renderings, as we interviewed Ström Architects about architectural visualisations and published Peter Guthrie's images depicting one of their projects. Our Dezeen Music Project track of the week and more architecture and design news follow. (more...) View the full article

Scroll on for all the latest from our recruitment site Dezeen Jobs, including positions with Büro Ole Scheeren, Priestmangoode and David Kohn Architects, whose renovated Barcelona apartment is pictured. This is also the last chance to apply for roles with Lego, Studio Fuksas, Mecanoo architecten and more... (more...) View the full article

Dezeen and MINI Frontiers: industrial designer Leonie Tenthof van Noorden, who uses 3D scanning to produce bespoke dresses, claims the technique will soon be commonplace in fashion stores (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

Installations formed by blending coloured lights, and a lamp based on jellyfish were produced by Dutch designer Dennis Parren for the Biennale Internationale Design Saint-Etienne 2015 (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Brazilian firm Reinach Mendonça Architects Associados has added a geometric concrete pavilion to a family home in São Paulo, offering a place for reading and entertaining. Read more View the full article

This barbecue by Barcelona designers Mermeladaestudio will char your food with geometric patterns. (more…) View the full article

Our job of the week on Dezeen Jobs is a position for a senior design engineer at London studio rAndom International, whose Rain Room (pictured) is currently installed as part of the EXPO 1: New York exhibition at the MoMA PS1 in New York and allows visitors to play in the rain without getting wet. See more stories about rAndom International on Dezeen here. Visit the ad for full details or browse other architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs. View the full article