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Architecture studio MORQ has built an almost windowless house surrounding a plant-filled courtyard from rammed concrete in Perth, Australia. Read more

Nuno Piedade Alexandre has completed a black extension to an elderly care centre in the Portuguese municipality of Ponte de Sor, which is covered with protruding windows. Read more

Construction is almost complete on a new contemporary art museum in California by US studios SO-IL and Bohlin Cywinski Jackson, featuring a massive white aluminium canopy supported by skinny white columns (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

NeoCon 2016: London studio Industrial Facility has designed a modular seating system for US furniture company Herman Miller that hooks together to turn "a communal gathering area into a lecture theatre". (more…) View the full article

Engineering student Alejandro Plasencia has created biodegradable fishing nets and tracking tags for fishermen to help stop aquatic mammals getting trapped in lost trawling equipment (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

News: Dezeen founder and editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs has been named Business Web Editor of the Year by the British Society of Magazine Editors. (more...) View the full article

A wooden ladder leads up to a set of white cabinets filled with animal bones, plants and a preserved tarantula in this science laboratory designed by Charles Tashima Architecture for a London primary school. Read more View the full article

Former Yeezy employee Maisie Schloss has debuted the first collection for her womenswear brand Maisie Wilen, with financial support and mentorship from her one-time boss Kanye West. Read more

Behind the clean white facade of this building in Shiga, Japan, is a cafe filled with wooden furniture and plants, and an apartment where clothing rails and shelves take the place of walls (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

A bandage pack containing a bone marrow donor registry kit has won a White Pencil at the D&AD Awards (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

Lisbon architect Nuno Simões of DNSJ.arq has completed a series of staircases and walkways to allow visitors to enter a historic cave near Évora, Portugal. (more...) View the full article

Taiwanese studio A Little Design has converted a former piano studio in Taipei, Taiwan into a tiny apartment with built-in, space-saving furniture. Read more

Product news: Australian designer Marc Newson has surrounded this bed for French brand Domeau & Pérès with chunky bumpers. (more...) View the full article

Scroll on for all the latest from our recruitment site Dezeen Jobs, including positions with FR-EE (whose anvil-shaped museum Museo Soumaya is shown above), Conran and Partners and HawkinsBrown, plus this is the last chance to apply for roles with UNStudio, Molton Brown and more... (more...) View the full article

Crystal-covered strands in London designer Elaine Yan Ling Ng's Design Miami/Basel installation respond to movement nearby by curling and twisting, as shown in this movie filmed by Dezeen (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

Milan 2013: British designer Jasper Morrison will present a chair inspired by camping furniture for Italian brand Mattiazzi in Milan next week. (more...) View the full article

Scroll on for all the latest from our recruitment site Dezeen Jobs, including positions with Schmidt Hammer Lassen who are currently redeveloping the site of the 2010 Shanghai Expo (pictured), OMA and Populous plus this is the last chance to apply for roles with Marcel Wanders, Harrods, Universal Design Studio and more... (more...) View the full article

The latest edition of Dezeen Weekly includes a colourful Mexican residence inspired by architect Luis Barragán and MINI's special-edition car designed to celebrate the marriage of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle. Subscribe to Dezeen Weekly › View the full article

Italian architect Stefano Boeri has designed three cube-shaped vertical forest apartments blocks for Egypt's New Administrative Capital, which is being built to the east of Cairo. Read more

Interview: Álvaro Siza, one of the world's most decorated architects, spoke to Dezeen recently in his home city of Porto, Portugal. In this interview he tells us his projects are never finished "because we never have enough time". (more…) View the full article

The inaugural Desert X art festival is underway in Southern California, where visitors are using Instagram to share images of installations including an entirely mirrored cabin and a seemingly infinite tunnel into the earth. Read more View the full article

A combined bookshelf and staircase creates a small library with interchangeable shelving at this apartment in the Ukraine by architect Alex Bykov (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Broad white piers and a colonnade suggest a Classical aesthetic on the facade of this small residence near Stockholm by architecture firm Hermansson Hiller Lundberg (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

We relaunched Dezeen Jobs last week with a new look, and to celebrate we’ve introduced a special offer for a half-price recruitment advert. To get your discount, pick up a voucher this week from Dezeen Super Store at 38 Monmouth Street WC2, or one of our pop-ups at 100% Design (stand IP15) or designjunction (stand B6). View the full article

This chair by Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Govert Flint allows the user to control their computer cursor with a range of body movements (+ movie). (more...) View the full article