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This top-heavy white house in Kanagawa, Japan, was designed by Apollo Architects & Associates for a keen surfer and his family (+ slideshow). (more…)

Milan 2015: Japanese wood furniture manufacturer Karimoku New Standard will present space-saving dining furniture by German designer Christian Haas in Milan next week. (more…) View the full article

The walls of this extension to a house in Melbourne feature a mismatched pattern of bricks and roof slates, sourced when part of the original building was demolished (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

This week on Dezeen: Apple's latest product launches – including a stylus designed for technical drawing – dominated headlines, while one of the winning entries in a competition to design the Bauhaus Museum Dessau's new home (pictured) quickly became one of this week's most-discussed subjects. (more…) View the full article

The jagged outline of a maple leaf informed the profile of this shooting range in Ontario, Canada, which was designed by Berlin firm Magma Architecture for the Toronto 2015 Pan American Games. (more…) View the full article

Architect Onurcan Çakır paired stark concrete with rugged stone for the walls of this compact family house near the west coast of Turkey (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Walls with built-in flowerpots and a staircase that functions as a play space both feature at this Seoul kindergarten by local architects office OA Lab (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

The main character in High Rise, a new movie based on JG Ballard's dystopian novel, is a residential tower that "doesn't care about the people inside it" and is designed by an arrogant architect. Director Ben Wheatley spoke exclusively to Dezeen about the film and why it "isn't a takedown of the architects of the 50s and 60s" (+ interview). (more…) View the full article

Opinion: initiatives like What Design Can Do's Refugee Challenge encourage designers to believe that they can solve international problems that go far beyond their reach, says Ruben Pater. (more…) View the full article

Beijing studio MAD has revealed plans for a Parisian housing block surrounded by undulating balconies, which is set to become the firm's first residential project in Europe (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Design Miami/Basel 2016: late architect Zaha Hadid has been honoured with a floral installation by Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec inside her first major completed building (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Students in a design-build programme at the University of Utah have completed a studio building on a remote campus in the desert where they live and work for part of the year (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

An exhibition at the Archivo gallery in Mexico City is exploring "the most important" part of the design process – the development stage (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

London Design Biennale 2016: transparent tubes transport note-filled capsules around the west wing of Somerset House in this installation by Autoban, which is Turkey's addition to the first London Design Biennale. (more…) View the full article

A translucent fold-up doorway separates a studio from a living room in this apartment created for a São Paulo-based illustrator who works from home (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Google's flexible workspace featuring bright red shipping containers and a meeting area with five-metre-high trees are included in this week's Pinterest roundup, which focuses on office interiors. Read more View the full article

Papermaker GF Smith has opened its first show space in London, which includes a gallery filled with an undulating installation of colourful paper rolls. Read more View the full article

Canadian architect Roger du Toit, part of the team behind Toronto's iconic CN Tower, has been posthumously awarded the highest honour bestowed by Canada's national architecture organisation. Read more View the full article

Our job of the day from Dezeen Jobs is for architects of various levels to join UNStudio's Amsterdam office, which completed its first building in Belgium last year (pictured). More › View the full article

The different qualities of water and air informed Iris van Herpen's latest collection, which was presented at this week's Paris couture shows accompanied by a group of underwater musicians. Read more View the full article

Iceland University of the Arts graduate Soley Thrainsdottir has turned leftover materials like pine needles and horse fat into a series of cleaning tools and products. Read more View the full article

UK prime minister Theresa May has pledged £400 million to remove and replace dangerous cladding on social-housing blocks, one year after the Grenfell Tower fire. Read more View the full article

Architecture studio Heusch has sought to create a continuous experience between the indoor and outdoor spaces of this overhauled mid-century residence, located high up in the Santa Monica Mountains. Read more View the full article

Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs speaks to an expert panel about how designers can shape the anthropocene to prevent global catastrophe in our latest Good Design for a Bad World talk. Watch it live from 3pm UK time. Read more View the full article

The latest instalment in our Dezeen x MINI Living video series explores a concept for flying houses by Studio McLeod and Ekkist, which would allow people to move between cities and the countryside using hot air balloons. Read more