What used to be the future is now a branch of the nostalgia industry. “We used to have one of those!” gush excited adult visitors to the Reinventing the Home section of the Science Museum’s Dan Dare exhibition, captivated by the Goblin Teasmaids and Pye televisions on display.

The stairs, bedrooms, restaurant and lobby areas of boutique hotel The Andaz were host to a series of installations by the Royal College of Art’s Platform 10 design students earlier this month.

Marks Barfield Architects have designed a 18-metre-high walkway through the canopies of sweet chestnut, lime and deciduous oak trees in Kew Royal Botanical Gardens in London. The 400-tonne steel structure was designed to blend in without harming its sensitive environment.

“We have copper, wine, salmon and wood,” says architect Alberto Mozó, in what resembles a crash course on Chile’s natural resources – and it is wood that he has decided to make use of in his office building for BIP Computers in the Providencia neighbourhood of Santiago.

Style and substance are at odds in this ode to northern Europe, but it’s juicy TV, finds William Wiles.

Dominic Wilcox has created a “Cave” out of 13,000 miniature football players to house a pair of shoes, as part of the designer’s collaboration with Nike and the 1/1: Art Of Football competition.

Shuhei Endo’s latest work demonstrates the new phase of his ongoing exploration into the geometry of bubbles. Bubbletecture H is an environmentally themed visitor centre situated in a mountainous area two hours from Osaka.

Issey Miyake’s vision of the future is a dreamlike world of dragons and vacuum cleaners that defies interpretation, finds Julian Worrall.

The last design by Ettore Sottsass will be put into production in July by Italian manufacturer Serralunga. Faituttotu, a collaboration with his partner, British designer Chris Redfern, is a collection of home accessories made of rotation-moulded plastic.

The last design by Ettore Sottsass will be put into production in July by Italian manufacturer Serralunga. Faituttotu, a collaboration with his partner, British designer Chris Redfern, is a collection of home accessories made of rotation-moulded plastic.