Cobe has revealed two charging stations for electric cars in Denmark, which have timber structures designed to create a "restful and Zen-like feel". | Continue reading
Creatives in need of a quiet escape can head to The Olive Houses, an off-grid retreat that Mar Plus Ask has created in Mallorca, Spain. | Continue reading
Google's sister company Loon is deploying a fleet of 35 solar-powered balloons that will provide internet service across more remote areas of Kenya by floating on stratospheric winds. | Continue reading
Transport design studio PriestmanGoode has developed a high-performance balloon and pressurised capsule for Space Perspective that plans to take space tourists on a "cruise" around the stratosphere. | Continue reading
BIG has completed the "cleanest waste-to-energy power plant in the world" in Copenhagen, Denmark, which is topped by a ski slope open all year round. | Continue reading
Vincent Callebaut designs farmscrapers for Shenzhen, China for a concept to bring natural ecosystems into cities. | Continue reading
This photo set by Kurt Hollander captures love motels in Santo Domingo, including structures that resemble "regal palaces" and suburban communities. | Continue reading
Robotic construction company Apis Cor has used its technology to build the world's largest 3D-printed building, a two-storey administrative office in Dubai. | Continue reading
Matthew Barnett Howland with Dido Milne and Oliver Wilton have build Cork House in Berkshire, England, from modular cork blocks. | Continue reading
MIT engineers have created a blackest black coating from carbon nanotubes that is reportedly 10 times darker than any material created before, including Vantablack. | Continue reading
Ector Hoogstad Architecten has completed a three-storey bicycle park to store 12,656 bikes below Utrecht Central Station in the Netherlands. | Continue reading
SilentLab will be showcasing its range of self-contained private workspaces at this year's London Design Fair. | Continue reading
Tesla founder Elon Musk has launched tech startup Neuralink that aims to build implants that connect human brains with computer interfaces via artificial intelligence. | Continue reading
Designers should stop proposing gimmicky solutions to the refugee crisis, according to panellists at our Good Design for a Bad World talk | Continue reading
Social media company Facebook is opening five pop-up Facebook Cafes across the UK where visitors can get a privacy checkup and a free cup of coffee. | Continue reading
BMW has released a Vantablack version of its X6 coupé, which has been spray-painted with "the world's blackest black" pigment that absorbs over 99 per cent of light. | Continue reading
Ector Hoogstad Architecten has completed the first stage of the world’s largest bicycle parking facility, in Utrecht’s Central Station area. | Continue reading
Kanye West's prefabricated affordable Yeezy Home units take inspiration from the Star Wars films and might be used as underground homeless housing. | Continue reading
An exhibition of paintings, drawings and sculpture made by Ai-Da, a humanoid robot with artificial intelligence, has been unveiled at a gallery in the UK. | Continue reading
The Dali Museum in St Petersburg, Florida has used a controversial artificial intelligence technique to "bring the master of surrealism back to life". | Continue reading
New York designer Joe Doucet has created a 3D-printed concrete bench that also functions as a barrier to vehicle-led terrorist attacks. | Continue reading
Here are 10 of the most iconic buildings designed by Chinese-American architect IM Pei, from a career that spans seven decades. | Continue reading
Miysis Studio has proposed combining a reconstruction of Notre-Dame's spire with a modern glazed roof to "find the right balance between history and future" for the cathedral. | Continue reading
A team of student designers and engineers from the RCA and Imperial College have designed an open-source alternative to GPS, called Aweigh, that does not rely on satellites. | Continue reading
Bioplastics could potentially be worse for the environment than conventional plastics, according to recycling expert Arthur Huang. | Continue reading
The British Royal Mint has commemorated professor Stephen Hawking in a new 50p coin, which references the late physicist's pioneering work on black holes. | Continue reading
This movie explores a concept for balloon-powered flying houses by Studio McLeod and Ekkist, which allow people to move between cities and rural settings. | Continue reading
A team led by professor Xu Weiguo at the Tsinghua University School of Architecture in Beijing has 3D printed a 26.3-metre-long concrete bridge, which they claim is the world's longest. | Continue reading
Australian firm Büro North has devised a concept for in-ground traffic lights to prevent pedestrians walking out onto the road. | Continue reading
BMW's creative division Designworks has teamed up with The North Face to design a futuristic camper concept, which utilises nanospinning technology to shelter its inhabitants from extreme weather conditions. | Continue reading
We pick 10 of the year's best skyscrapers for our review of 2018, from one sporting a 100-metre-high waterfall to the northernmost tower block in the world. | Continue reading
British architect Richard Rogers has won the top prize awarded by the American Institute of Architects, a choice backed by his peers Moshe Safdie, Renzo Piano and Deyan Sudjic. | Continue reading
Italian bioengineer Giuseppe Scionti from Spanish startup Novameat has invented the "world's first" 3D-printed meat-free steak made from vegetable proteins, which mimics the texture of beef. | Continue reading
A team led by US architect David Hertz has developed an energy-efficient technology for harvesting fresh drinking water from the air, which is contained within a shipping container for easy transport. | Continue reading
A new business-banking service called Anna has launched with a design-first strategy aimed at reducing admin hassle for small UK firms. | Continue reading
Panasonic's Future Life Factory is developing wearable blinkers, designed to limit your sense of sound and sight, and help you focus on what's directly in front of you. | Continue reading
Panasonic's Future Life Factory is developing wearable blinkers, designed to limit your sense of sound and sight, and help you focus on what's directly in front of you. | Continue reading
Typographer Vincent Connare talks to Dezeen about creating the typeface that designers love to hate. | Continue reading
This mini version of Apple's Cupertino campus is made entirely of Lego, and was modelled on drone footage taken during construction | Continue reading
Tech company Kano has created a coding kit for the Harry Potter universe, with a wand that users can programme to cast spells when they wave their hand. | Continue reading
London's Westminster Abbey has a new stained-glass window, designed by David Hockney on his iPad, to commemorate the reign of Queen Elizabeth II. | Continue reading
This radical redesign of a door by Austrian artist Klemens Torggler uses a folding and pivoting system to collapse and roll to one side. | Continue reading
A team from the Technical University of Munich has topped previous hyperloop speed records with a capsule that hit 467 kilometres per hour. | Continue reading
Researchers from Universidade da Coruña in Spain have drawn from nature to write an algorithm that is capable of anticipating the growth pattern of cities | Continue reading
Danish company CeramicSpeed has developed what could be the world's most efficient bicycle drivetrain and has built a prototype to prove it. | Continue reading
Elon Musk is insisting that the escape pod he hand delivered to the cave rescue team in Thailand is fully functional, after being criticised by the head of the mission. | Continue reading
Architects should make Instagram-friendly elements a central part of their designs for hotels, bars and restaurants to boost their chances of success, according to a new report. | Continue reading