10 unmissable exhibitions and installations at Milan design week 2016
Milan 2016: as this year's Milan design week gets underway, we've selected our top picks from what's on around the city. More
Milan 2016: as this year's Milan design week gets underway, we've selected our top picks from what's on around the city. More
Italian artist Edoardo Tresoldi has used wire to recreate an early Christian church on an archaeological site in Siponto, a port town in southern Italy (+ slideshow). More
Venice Architecture Biennale 2016: pavilions that host exhibitions for the Venice Biennale are boarded up for six months every year, and Dutch studio RAAAF thinks a better solution would be to cover each one with a veil of fabric. More
Milan 2016: British designer Lee Broom will recreate part of an Italian palazzo inside a delivery van for a travelling installation to showcase his latest 90s-inspired lighting collection. More
Milan 2016: Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto explains why he has chosen light rather than physical objects to create his Milan design week installation for fashion brand COS (+ movie). More
If mazes weren't confusing enough already, American artist John Miller has built one from mirrors to further bewilder lost visitors, at Miami's Institute of Contemporary Art (+ slideshow). More
Fungal flowers coated in metal and a sofa upholstered with fake grass are among the pieces in a solo show of work by Japanese botanical artist Makoto Azuma in New York (+ slideshow). More
Mies van der Rohe's seminal Barcelona Pavilion is set to undergo another radical change – Spanish architect Luis Martínez Santa-María plans to erect huge columns made from old steel drums in front of it. More
Dutch designer Daan Roosegaarde has turned a group of wind turbines into a light installation by connecting the structures with moving laser beams (+ movie). More
This foil-covered sound system by Swedish German duo Reed Kram and Clemens Weisshaar uses audio vibration to distort listeners' reflections (+ movie – this contains flashing images). More
Conceived as a pair of colour-changing "lungs" connected by two looping cycle tracks, Loop.pH's Vel02 installation has opened as part of the Velo-City Global 2016 cycling conference in Taipei (+ movie). More
Design duo Laetitia de Allegri and Matteo Fogale have installed window displays in four different COS stores to coincide with fashion weeks in London, Paris, Milan and New York (+ slideshow). More
Snarkitecture co-founder Daniel Arsham has opened a solo show at the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) Museum of Art in Georgia, which features eroded, rippled and cloth-like wall installations. More
French furniture brand Smarin has created a temporary installation of soft dune-shaped lounge chairs, designed to encourage visitors to stop and take a nap (+ slideshow). More
Designer Mary Katrantzou's London Fashion Week show took place on a foil-covered catwalk in front of a wall of silvery balloons, created by Paris studio Bureau Betak at Central Saint Martins arts college. More
Colourful illuminated surfaces based on 8-bit graphics and Rubik's cubes formed the backdrop for designer Anya Hindmarch's London Fashion Week catwalk show (+ slideshow). More
Milan 2016: Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto has designed this year's Milan design week installation for fashion brand COS, which will feature cones of light created by spotlights. More
A shadowy room with gabion walls and a suspended canopy made of wooden slats are among the winners of a juried competition to design installations for this year's International Garden Festival, in Quebec, Canada. More
Stockholm 2016: Lotta Agaton of Swedish interiors magazine Residence has curated a selection of products by Note Design Studio for an exhibition of styled scenes at Stockholm's ArkDes architecture museum. More
The Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum's fifth Design Triennial exhibition in New York examines the theme of beauty in contemporary design (+ slideshow). More