This week IKEA launched its playful PS collection

This week on Dezeen, Swedish furniture brand IKEA unveiled the new edition of its experimental PS collection, which includes a blow-up armchair and a wooden rocking bench. With many of the pieces priced at under £100, we selected eight of the most covetable products in the collection, which aims to make cutting-edge Scandinavian design accessible to the general public at an affordable price point. Among them were a height-adjustable stool informed by woodworking clamps and a "universal and unpretentious" portable lamp. We looked at Seville's Metropol Parasol as part of our parametricism series We continued our parametricism series this week by looking at the Metropol Parasol in Seville, a flowing canopy made up of 3,000 timber pieces slotted together, and the futuristic Seoul Robot & AI Museum by Melike Altınışık Architects. In an interview with Melike Altınışık, the Turkish architect said that the theories of parametricism have had a positive influence on the direction of architecture, but it should not be adopted as a universal architectural style. Tour Triangle skyscraper by Herzog & de Meuron topped out in Paris Also this week, a trapezoidal skyscraper named Tour Triangle topped out in Paris, designed by Swiss studio Herzog & de Meuron. Rising to 180 metres, the controversial building is now the third-tallest within the Paris city limits, behind the Tour Montparnasse and the Eiffel Tower. The Hainan Science Museum opened in China In other architecture news, MAD completed the spiralling Hainan Science Museum in China, which was wrapped in silver-toned polymer panels. Ring-shaped galleries in the museum were designed to flow into one another, connected by a walkway that encircles a five-storey atrium. Jasper Morrison said he has "a lot of sympathy" for young designers in an interview British industrial designer Jasper Morrison told Dezeen that he has "a lot of sympathy" for young designers, as the rising prominence of craft in design amid dwindling commercial opportunities reminds him of the design scene he experienced in 1980s London. Known for his thoughtful, refined design approach to everyday objects, Morrison said that he assembled pieces from various local shops as part of his own self-powered "micro-production" when he first started out as a designer. The interiors of the Orient Express Corinthian yacht caught readers' attention this week Popular projects this week included the luxurious interiors of the world's largest sailing yacht, a home in Bali made from reclaimed wood and a pair of light-filled mews homes on an infill site in Edinburgh. 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