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Danish studio BIG has designed an observation tower shaped like a honey dipper for Phoenix, Arizona. (more...) View the full article

Dezeen Watch Store: four Daniel Wellington watches with striped fabric Nato straps are now available from Dezeen Watch Store. (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

A towering steel Holocaust memorial in Italy was popular this week, so we've revisited the best commemorative architecture published on Dezeen. Visit our latest Pinterest board to explore more examples, including a concentration camp house shrouded in glass, a fan-shaped stone structure in Japan and a tribute to suspected witches burnt at the stake in 17th-century Norway. Follow Dezeen on Pinterest | See more memorials in our archive View the full article

This connected plant pot designed by Royal College of Art graduate Jen-Hsien Chiu feeds or starves a plant depending on its user's behaviour. Read more View the full article

An exhibition showcasing 15 years of design by Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec has opened at Les Arts Décoratifs museum in Paris. (more...) View the full article

New York architecture firm ODA has transformed a landmarked factory in Brooklyn's Dumbo overlooking the city's East River into an office building fronted by a huge glistening glass facade. Read more

Swedish bicycle accessory brand Bookman has created a cup holder that snaps onto handlebars so city bikers can cycle with their takeaway coffees (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

Georgia is using architecture to rebrand itself like Germany did after the Second World War according to architect Jürgen Mayer H, who has built a range of striking border checkpoints, airports and service stations in the country (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

The team behind a virtual reality tool that allows designers to sketch in three dimensions has launched an iPad app that turns drawings into virtual and physical 3D models (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

British designer Morag Myerscough has created brightly coloured textiles, tiles and furniture for the cafe inside the Bernie Grant Arts Centre in London, which was designed by architect David Adjaye. Read more View the full article

The entrance to this white house by Osaka architecture studio IZUE is contained within a hole in the slatted wooden porch that frames a view through to the sea (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Following the controversial selection of two winning entries in a competition to design the Bauhaus Museum Dessau's new home, we've created a Pinterest board filled with some of the most iconic and unusual new institutions in the world, including Renzo Piano's Whitney in New York and Frank Gehry's Biomuseo in Panama. Follow Dezeen on Pinterest | See more museum architecture View the full article

This umbrella-shaped street lamp by London designer Samuel Wilkinson has a crystal-covered canopy and allows passersby to leave augmented messages for their friends (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Walter Segal-inspired cottages, co-living and custom-built terraces are among the solutions to Britain's housing crisis proposed in an exhibition at the Royal Institute of British Architects in London (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Dezeen promotion: Ceramics brand Mutina have teamed up with Dutch designer Hella Jongerius to produce a range of tonal tiles. Read more View the full article

Performers from experimental dance company Bandaloop leap, flip and spin across the glass facade of a 17-storey tower at Boston's Fan Pier in this choreographed acrobatic act (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

The products on sale in this monochrome design shop by Dutch interiors studio i29 are concealed behind a fragmented sequence of signage panels that create an optical illusion (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Milan 2015: designers and visitors have been arriving in Milan for the world's biggest and most important design fair. Click through for the best images posted to Instagram so far using our #milanogram2015 hashtag. (more…) View the full article

Californian designer Chad Wright has made a sandcastle mould of a typical American house to recreate post-war suburbia on the beach (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

A 19th-century building in New York's East Village has been given a new lease on life as the headquarters of female-focused co-working club The Wing. Read more

Soft brown leather seats and a grey-toned iron bar feature inside this seafood restaurant overlooking Copenhagen's Torvehallerne food market. (more…) View the full article

With Clerkenwell Design Week kicking off tomorrow, Dezeen's Natashah Hitti picks out six of the best installations to see, including a pop-up street of pink townhouses and a pavilion made from layers of interwoven string. Read more View the full article

White and black painted patches create artificial shafts of light and shadows on the walls of this salon in Japan by Tokyo studio Takara Space Design. (more...) View the full article

Plant-lined balconies and a grid-like facade wrap around the glass Kojimachi Terrace office in Tokyo, which Nendo has designed "to bring the outside in". Read more