25 of the best new furniture and lighting designs from Salone del Mobile 2016

Onecollection reissues Finn Juhl's Danish mid-century FJ 136 chair

Milan 2016: furniture manufacturer Onecollection has relaunched a 1958 chair by Finn Juhl, which played an important role in the proliferation of Danish design
Considered one of the leading figures in 20th-century Danish design, Juhl originally created the FJ 136 chair for British entrepreneur C W F France.

FAT's seminal Blue House set for rooftop extension

Architect Sean Griffiths has unveiled plans to add a shed-inspired roof extension to the Blue House, one of the best-known projects of his former studio FAT.
Griffiths has been granted planning permission to build a new storey on the roof of the east London property, which
FAT described as "one of the most important houses built this century".

Gravity-defying staircase by Close to Bone climbs up into the sky

This weathering steel staircase by engineering studio Close to Bone cantilevers off a hill in Flanders, forming an observation tower overlooking rolling farmland and the Kabouterbos forest

SAS Designbuild combines two facade styles for an urban Boston home

American studio SAS Designbuild has completed a family dwelling in a historic Boston neighbourhood that reads as two separate homes due to its unusual facade treatment.
Called Taylor Street House, the 4,200-square-foot (390-square-metre) dwelling is located in Boson's South End neighbourhood, which is known for its Victorian architecture and numerous parks.

Nendo designs collection of movement-tracing furniture

New York 2016: prolific Japanese studio Nendo has unveiled a collection of furniture and lighting featuring sketch-like outlines that trace the motion of moving elements

Ora ïto and Alstom unveil trams for Nice's expanded public transport system

French designer Ora ïto has revealed his tram designs for the Mediterranean city of Nice, which will be charged through the ground rather than via overhead cables clip
Created with French rail company Alstom, Ora ïto 's trams will run on the new 11.3kilometre (7 miles) east-west line through Nice – which the city's inhabitants approved in a January 2016 vote. To lessen the impact of the tramway on the historic city, the trams will charge through the ground to avoid prominent overhead contact lines.

Serpentine Summer Houses include looping wooden pavilion and inverted replica building

The Serpentine Gallery has unveiled the designs for four Summer Houses that will accompany this year's Bjarke Ingels-designed Serpentine Gallery Pavilion in London's Kensington Gardens, The four structures form part of the gallery's newly expanded annual architecture programme.

Bjarke Ingels' Serpentine Gallery Pavilion conceived as an "unzipped wall"

The wall of fibreglass blocks splits to create a curved opening to the pavilion with jagged edges. "We have attempted to design a structure that embodies multiple aspects that are often perceived as opposites: a structure that is free-form yet rigorous, modular yet sculptural, both transparent and opaque, both solid box and blob," said Ingels.

Olafur Eliasson and Kjetil Thorsen's Serpentine Gallery Pavilion "looked like a spinning top"

Movie: Serpentine Gallery director Julia Peyton-Jones discusses the spinning top-shaped pavilion designed by Olafur Eliasson and Kjetil Thorsen in 2007 in the next instalment from our exclusive video series Photograph by Luke HayesDanish-Icelandic artist Eliasson and Norwegian architect Thorsen of Snøhetta collaborated to design the
Serpentine Gallery Pavilion in 2007.

"We could never recreate Mario Botta's SFMOMA" says extension architect Craig Dykers of Snøhetta

Interview: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art reopens this month with a
Snøhetta-designed extension to its original Mario Botta building . In this interview, Snøhetta partner Craig Dykers explains how he tried not to step on the toes of Botta's Postmodern structure.

Federico Babina's ARCHICARDS Reimagines Architecture's Famous Faces as Playing Cards

"I always liked play as a form of learning; toys are often a prelude to serious ideas," says
Federico Babina about his latest series of illustrations, titled ARCHICARDS. "The game can

Amble through spectacular walkways on Dezeen's new Pinterest board

Walkways that twist through treetops, zigzag along mountain paths and climb skywards feature on our new Pinterest borad.

"Floating food forest" proposed for New York's waterways

A collective of designers and artists in
New York has proposed transforming a shipping barge into a verdant floating farm , with berry bushes, lime trees and swaths of lavender, among many other plants.
Called Swale, the project was co-conceived by Mary Mattingly , an artist who creates "sculptural ecosystems in urban spaces In 2009, she and four companions lived for six months on a barge in New York, where they grew their own food and purified their own water. She most recently transformed an old boat hull in Philadelphia into a residency space for artists and writers. Other Swale collaborators include Jono Neiger, a Massachusetts-based landscape designer; Casey Tang, a New York graphic designer; and Rik van Hemmen, an engineer and marine consultant from New Jersey. Artists Karla Stinger-Stein and Marisa Prefer are also contributing to the project.

The group envisions putting large garden beds atop a flat-deck barge, which would then be filled with different types of trees and edible plants. The list includes nearly 100 plant species, ranging from artichokes and arugula to Asian persimmon trees.
The "floating food forest" would be irrigated with river water, which would be run through a gravity-fed filtration system before being utilised. The farm would be open to the public.
"We want to reimagine fresh, free food as a public service, not just a commodity," said Mattingly. "We also want to reinforce water as a commons and clean water as a human right."
The group is hosting a Kickstarter campaign to help fund the project. As of 2 May, 79 backers had contributed a total of $6,100 (£4,150). The fundraising goal is $32,000 (£21,800).

Elizabeth Tower and Big Ben to Undergo Renovations

The Center for Asian Art at the Ringling Museum of Art / Machado and Silvetti Associates

ARCHITECTS: Machado and Silvetti Associates

LOCATION: Sarasota, Florida, United State

AREA: 25500.0 ft2

PROJECT YEAR: 2016

CLIENT: Florida State University, the joined and mable Ringling museum of art

PHOTOGRAPHS: Arton Grassl & Esto

Joanna Laajisto lines Helsinki restaurant walls with corrugated metal

Finnish designer Joanna Laajisto has combined mint-coloured corrugated metal wall panels with red-orange marble furniture inside this restaurant in Helsinki.
Laajisto overhauled the space for the OX restaurant on the city's Pieni Roobertinkatu street, and used the menu to influence the interior design.

Knox Bhavan Architects combines two flats in a converted London school

Knox Bhavan Architects has joined two flats in a converted school in south London, creating an apartment with spacious entertaining spaces and bedrooms that can be opened or closed

GamFratesi designs chair and desk to mark Porro's 90th anniversary

Milan 2016: Danish studio GamFratesi has borrowed shapes from typical mid-century furniture to create the Voyage chair and Collector desk for Italian brand Porro 's 90th anniversary collection.

Ross Gardam's Polar desk lamp has a rotating metallic shade

Milan 2016: Australian designer Ross Gardam has created a desk lamp with a mirrored shade that can be rotated to adjust light and shadow

House EFFE-E / Archiplan Studio

ARCHITECTS: Archiphan Studio

LOCATION: 41030 Bomporto MO, italy

PROJECT YEAR: 2016

PHOTOGRAPHS: Davide Galli

Mariusz Wrzeszcz completes house in Poland with cedar walls inside and out

Architects office Mariusz Wrzeszcz has completed a single-storey house in Poland featuring cedar -clad walls, and a glazed living room that opens out to a spacious terrace
The Polish firm designed the house for a single client, in a quiet, residential area. Called Cedar House, it is clad almost entirely in cedar boards.

Wolff Olins' logo for Oi morphs in response to sounds

British-American branding firm Wolff Olins has created a shapeshifting logo for Brazilian telecoms company Oi that changes colour and form in response to people's voices

Nendo's Tangle side tables entwine together "as if holding hands"

Milan 2016: this trio of side tables by Japanese studio Nendo for Italian brand Capellini features corkscrew legs that allow them to interlock

Kram/Weisshaar's SmartSlab dining table has hidden tech to cook food and chill drinks

Milan 2016: designers Kram/Weisshaar have created a razor-thin table embedded with hidden circuitry so you can cook dinner and keep plates warm and drinks cold while you dine. Induction rings in each SmartSlab table allow the ceramic top to act as a hob for cooking, while plate-sized heating elements ensure served food stays at an optimum

Wingårdhs decorates Tattoo stools using UNESCO-listed wood carving technique

This wooden stool designed for Bosnian brand Zanat by Swedish architects office Wingårdhs has been "tattooed" with hand-chiselled carvings.

Zebrano / Plan b arquitectos + M+Group

ARCHITECTS: plan B Arquitectos, M + Group

LOCATION: Envigado, Envigado, Antioquia, Colombia

PROJECT YEAR: 2016

Moss & Lam uses "alchemic" Italian technique to craft marbled W1 tables

Canadian design studio Moss & Lam rediscovered a traditional craft process to create this collection of patterned side tables

Studio Zero85 recreates outlines of Tokyo market stalls inside Italian sushi ba

Diners at this sushi restaurant on the Italian coast sit inside house-shaped booths , based on the angled silhouettes of stalls in Tokyo's old street markets

Crèche D3 designed by Gayet-Roger Architects

ARCHITECTS: Gayet-Roger

LOCATION: bordeaux France

AREA: 813.0 sqm

PROJECT YEAR: 2014

PHOTOGRAPHS: sergio Grazia

This building is made with old doors and windows but still look good

Old doors and windows, antique wooden columns and metal drainpipes give this house in Mumbai an aesthetic its architects claim is inspired by the ramshackle buildings found throughout the city

Local studio S+PS Architects designed Collage House to accommodate four generations of the same family. It is located on top of a hill overlooking Mumbai, and is arranged in a traditional Indian style around a central courtyard to avoid unwanted overlooking from neighbouring buildings.

The architects were influenced by the ad-hoc building typologies that many of the city's inhabitants construct using found materials. This prompted them to used salvaged materials in their design, helping to promote an alternative approach to recycling.