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Design Week Mexico 2016: empty cuboids representing both museum vitrines and coffins are stacked to create this installation outside Mexico City's Museo Tamayo (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

A glazed ramp spirals around a courtyard at the centre of this house in the Portuguese town of Estoril, connecting the various living spaces and a garden roof terrace. Read more View the full article

Lego has announced a kit for building and programming robots, designed to encourage a younger generation to learn how to code, at this year's CES tech conference. Read more View the full article

Lund University graduate Anna Gudmundsdottir created this homeware collection "backwards" by starting with the manufacturers' input rather than the design. Read more View the full article

Delicate lanterns made from pleated paper and table lamps that display assorted objects are among Dezeen editor Amy Frearson's highlights from lighting fair Euroluce in Milan. Read more View the full article

Architecture studio MAPmx has unveiled an office tower in Mexico City with huge concrete walls that appear to be pulled apart at the corners. Read more View the full article

Swedish design studio Front has created a collection of colourful rugs, then transformed the design to produce matching poufs. Read more View the full article

Furniture brands who work with female designers shouldn't expect them to only produce feminine objects, according to Danish designer Cecilie Manz. Read more View the full article

With just 30 days left until entries close for the inaugural Dezeen Awards, we have news of the awards ceremony, which takes place in London later this year. Read more View the full article

An arc of clerestory windows set between narrow stone fins channels daylight into the theatre at the Stirling Prize shortlisted Sultan Nazrin Shah Centre designed by Niall McLaughlin Architects. Read more View the full article

Airbnb has announced a major move into the architecture and construction industry, with plans to release a new housing prototype late next year. Read more

Cork Screw House, designed by Rundzwei Architekten in Berlin, has a facade and roof made from a bottle manufacturer's waste cork. Read more

These twelve architectural models show off 10 of the futuristic buildings created by Beijing-based architecture studio MAD, including a floating island and a mountain range. Read more

New York firm Rafael Viñoly Architects has revealed an updated version of a residential skyscraper for Chicago in new images and a short movie, in which the studio's founder describes his ideas for the project. Read more

Designer Brodie Neill has created a contemporary hourglass filled with microplastic instead of sand to highlight the issue of ocean plastic pollution. Read more

Expansive panels of glass helped Rise Design Studio connect the formerly light-starved living spaces of this northwest London flat to the outdoors. Read more

This photoset by Australian photographer Tom Ross captures a geometric, concrete research laboratory in Boulder, Colorado, which was designed by architect IM Pei who passed away this week. Read more

Mozhao Architects has added a furniture shop and tea house to a technology park in Shenzhen, in a series of six concrete blocks. Read more

We're showcasing the best apartments in London, New York and Barcelona on our Pinterest account this week, including a flat inside the old BBC Television Centre. Follow Dezeen on Pinterest ›

Architecture practice Studio BAM! has built a skinny house clad in charred cedar in the garden of a Victorian end-of-terrace home in London. Read more

Northumbria University graduate Rocky Brooks has designed a disposable and fully recyclable flat-pack bed for dogs to help reduce costs in rescue centres. Read more

Dedicated Verner Panton manufacturer Verpan has released three pieces of furniture designed by Panton but never before put into production, based on the designer's original sketches. Read more

A trio of buildings with wood and stone-clad walls form this dwelling in Montana by the architecture studio CTA, which was designed to embrace its setting in a verdant valley ringed by trees and mountains. Read more

French designer Marlène Huissoud asks humans to "Please Stand By" with her first chairs, which are designed to be refuges for insects. Read more

American artist Doug Aitken explores the nature of freedom in a world dominated by technology in his Return to the Real exhibition, which is on show at London's Victoria Miro gallery. Read more View the full article