This week on Dezeen, IKEA revealed its new furniture that can be assembled without screws and BIG launched its own in-house engineering department.
Furniture giant IKEA is doing away with screws and alley kens, and instead introducing products that snap together "like a jigsaw puzzle", it revealed this week.
Meanwhile Bjarke Ingels announced that his firm BIG is launching an engineering department to help integrate technical knowledge into its ambitious architecture projects from the outset.
Bjarke Ingels launches "silo-shattering" BIG Engineering department
Also this week, Donald Trump revealed design requirements for his Mexican border wall and a US architecture lobby proposed a walkout in protest of the controversial proposal. RCA was named the world's top design school for third year running, beating American colleges MIT and Parsons.
MVRDV's letter-shaped housing blocks will spell out HOME across old army barracks
Elsewhere, MVRDV revealed plans to redevelop a former US Army camp in Germany, while Daniel Libeskind completed a larch-clad cosmology centre for Durham University.
Detroit approved the timeline for SHoP Architects' Hudson department store replacement and Herzog & de Meuron announced plans to turn a derelict Brooklyn power station into a creative hub.
Nike unveils Pro Hijab for female Muslim athletes
On International Women's Day, the Dezeen editorial team nominated 50 inspiration women in the architecture and design industry.
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