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Frank Gehry reveals a striking addition to the skyline of his home city, Toronto >

Maya Lin’s sprawling installations pay homage to – and ask questions about – watery ecologies >

The Bamiyan Cultural Centre in the Bamiyan Valley meditates on the complex history and uncertain future of Afghanistan >

Intrepid designer Lani Adeoye is inspired by the organic rhythms of the traditional society, adapting them for modern audiences >

Stefano Boeri x Timberland have created a multisensory installation to bring the scents and sensations of being in a forest into an urban waterway >

Take a seat on a Bofred masterpiece and be transported to a world where all you need do is actively observe >

Furniture designer Jonsara Ruth restores disabled pieces of furniture so they are both ecologically and ergonomically healthier >

Daniel Ting Chong’s partnership with Local Brewery & Co. brings inclusivity and fashionable fun to craft beer >

Renowned Senegalese architect Fatiya Diene Mazza, who is founder of the firm ID+EA, has been instrumental in refreshing the infrastructure of her nation >

Influential post-war Japanese photographer’s solo exhibition highlights the pathos of the past >

Tosin Oshinowo’s Coral Pavilion embraces the traditions of tropical modernism in West Africa >

Treehotel and BIG make a case for species co-habitation with their new collaboration, Biosphere >

Francesco Nassimbeni’s film, ‘AEIOU’ has scooped the prestigious Jury Award for Best Experimental Short at this year’s Cannes Short Film Festival. Here’s why >

The 60th edition of the world’s biggest furniture fair, Salone del Mobile.Milano – scheduled for June this year – is a vibrant subsidiary of Milan Design Week >

Disruption’s “softer” cousin, Reimagination, is a survival tool for brands, and leads the way to a better world through creativity >

Mariam Issoufou Kamara, founder of the award-winning Atelier Masōmī, will lead the design of a new museum and cultural centre – Bët-bi – in southwestern Senegal >

A Lithuanian exhibition is inviting heart-to-hearts between historical furniture items and modern-day design objects >

British architect Norman Foster proposes rebuilding the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv from the ground up >

Designer Luke Pearson closes the production loop with the collaborative product bFRIENDS >

How do you define freedom? Ghana’s flag provides a clue – as does its striking pavilion at this year’s Venice Biennale >

Former Liberian president Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has partnered with leading African architects >

Naba AboLova and actor Bonko Khoza bring hope to unemployed township youth >

British author Simon Garfield’s classic publication, ‘Just My Type’, turns us all into fervent font-spotters >

A never-ending stream of dominoes extending upwards provides the building blocks of architect Jean-Paul Cassia’s latest brainchild, the Zanzibar Tower >

Design Indaba alumnus and Stanford bioengineer Manu Prakash rises to the challenge of inequality with his scientific inventions >