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Tel Aviv's apartment buildings are being transformed with contemporary interiors by a wave of local architects and designers. We've rounded up five of the best new apartment designs in the Israeli city, including a renovated space with a dramatic steel staircase and a penthouse with an infinity pool on the roof (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

US firm Leddy Maytum Stacy Architects has completed an academic facility on the Berkeley campus in California that is topped with an expansive, overhanging canopy made up of solar cells (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Wrapped in a latticed glass and steel skin, this ring-shaped building by architecture studio BIAD UFO provides the new headquarters for Chinese broadcaster Phoenix Television (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Our job of the day from Dezeen Jobs is for an interior designer at London's Heatherwick Studio, which recently revealed designs for a honeycomb-like staircase at its Hudson Yards development in New York (pictured). Read more stories on Thomas Heatherwick, or browse more architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs. View the full article

Cement-fibre panels that appear to have the same texture as an elephant's skin clad the exterior of this home that architect Sean Guess built for himself in Austin, Texas. Read more View the full article

The site for this residence in the Canadian Rocky Mountains was chosen by Cutler Anderson Architects for its craggy topography, which the designers used to frame the house. Read more View the full article

Students competed for the chance to have IKEA prototype their designs at IKEA Festival in Milan this morning. Find out who won in Dezeen's latest video update. Read more View the full article

Dezeen promotion: interior architect Tristan Auer has been revealed as the latest Maison&Objet Designer of the Year, and will create a stand that will display his past projects for the September edition of the biannual Paris fair. Read more View the full article

Barack and Michelle Obama have released a set of new renderings and a movie showing the cultural complex celebrating his presidency, which is to be built on Chicago's South Side. Read more View the full article

Architects Heatherwick Studio and Kohn Pedersen Fox have been appointed to design a new wing at Singapore's Changi Airport, which will aim to challenge the "sterility and soullessness" of terminal design. Read more View the full article

Japanese studio Nendo has designed an eighteen-piece metal furniture collection to mimic the bleeding effect of watercolour paint on paper surfaces. Read more View the full article

Italian studio Westway Architects has completed the modernisation of a winery near Venice, which combines wine-coloured zinc-titanium cladding with windows to view the production process. Read more View the full article

Foster + Partners' plans to build a 305-metre tall viewing tower in London may be blocked, as London City Airport says the structure could impact its radar system. Read more

Designers Patricia Urquiola and Yves Behar and architects Frida Escobedo and Kunlé Adeyemi will all be on the judging panel for Dezeen Awards 2019, which are now open to enter. Read more

Roskilde Festival Folk High School campus in Roskilde, Denmark, has been built by COBE and MVRDV inside a former concrete factory. Read more

IKEA has released a set of furniture hacks that anyone can download and 3D-print to make their products more usable by people with disabilities. Read more

With the UK mired in Brexit crisis, this is a good time to revisit this design submitted for our Brexit passport design competition, which seems to sum up how a lot of people feel about the political situation. Read more

Contraceptives and other drugs could be administered through an earring, using a method invented by researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Read more

Twenty-one designers have explored the rituals of the dinner table for an exhibition inside an Austrian castle. Read more

This captioned movie shows catwalk footage of Central Saint Martins graduate Fredrik Tjærandsen's colourful bubble outfits, which have become a viral sensation around the world. Read more

IKEA has unveiled a collection of customisable 3D-printed accessories created to help people play video games at home in greater comfort and style. Read more

Products infused with CBD are dotted throughout sparse gallery-like rooms inside west London's The Drug Store, which has been designed by the brand's co-founders. Read more

WOHA has revealed visuals of the self-sufficient Singapore Pavilion for the Dubai Expo 2020, which will have plant covered walls and hanging gardens. Read more

From millennial pink bathrooms to totems in clashing multi-colours, maximalist design is on the rise, says Claire Bingham, author of More is More. Here she picks out five contemporary designers piling on the pattern. Read more

New York's Architecture and Design Film Festival founder has picked out five screenings to get in the diary ahead of the event's opening next week, including movies that explore the lives and works of architect Denise Scott Brown, Bauhaus educator László Moholy-Nagy and 20th-century architect Bruce Goff. Read more