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The final film from Virtual Design Festival's collaboration with Laura Mark and Jim Stephenson is a meditative look at the Peter Salter-designed Walmer Yard. Read more View the full article

Shahar Livne will speak to Dezeen in a live Screentime conversation sponsored by Philips TV & Sound as part of Virtual Design Festival. Watch it here live from 4:00pm UK time. Read more View the full article

New York studio WORKac has inserted a white perforated steel staircase into this three-storey Brooklyn apartment as part of a renovation designed to brighten its dark interiors. Read more View the full article

VDF products fair: UK flooring manufacturer Forbo has designed its Tessera Earthscape carpet tiles to emulate the natural textures of soil and rock. Read more View the full article

VDF products fair: Flotex is a flocked flooring range by UK manufacturer Forbo, which is designed to withstand the demands of a busy ski resort while maintaining the comfort of a carpet. Read more View the full article

Italian studio Network of Architecture has built a timber cafe and changing room alongside the scenic Völser Weiher lake in South Tyrol, Italy. Read more View the full article

Women's collective Part W has selected six women that it believes are deserving of winning the RIBA Royal Gold Medal, to help address the gender imbalance of past winners. Read more View the full article

Rainlight founder Yorgo Lykouria explains how a modular furniture system called BoxLife allows users to organise their living spaces, in a video produced by Dezeen for Scavolini as part of Virtual Design Festival. Read more View the full article

Architecture studio Alma-nac has extended and added a second grey-brick skin to a 1950s property in Brockley, south London to create a contemporary family home. Read more View the full article

There are just five days left to enter Dezeen Awards 2020, so here are five reasons why you should enter our award-winning awards programme today. Read more View the full article

Japanese researcher Homei Miyashita has developed a lickable device that uses five gel nodules made of dissolved electrolytes to replicate different food tastes without the user having to ingest anything. Read more View the full article

VDF products fair: Australian bathroom accessories brand Phoenix has released its Axia collection of taps, which feature a minimalist design and thin cantilevered spouts. Read more View the full article

British architecture studio Grimshaw and Dutch manufacturers Concrete Valley are developing Modular Water Dwellings that could be built in places at risk from climate change. Read more View the full article

Architect Lalo Carrillo worked with firms Colombo and Serboli Architecture and SY Arquitectos to design this guesthouse for his family in Córdoba, Argentina. Read more View the full article

Oklahoma artist Rachel Hayes stitched together colourful fabrics to create abstract representations of natural landscapes that hang in a Los Angeles gallery. Read more View the full article

In the second part of our VDF collaboration with film-makers Laura Mark and Jim Stephenson, we screen the first episode of the duo's Practice series, in which architect Piers Taylor of Invisible Studio explains why he built his own house in the woods. Read more View the full article

Thai architect Kulapat Yantrasast speaks to Dezeen in this live Screentime conversation sponsored by Enscape as part of Virtual Design Festival. Watch the broadcast from 5:00pm UK time. Read more View the full article

A board-marked concrete chimney raises this house designed by US architecture firm Olson Kundig to "hover" above its surrounding in the Brazilian rainforest. Read more View the full article

Eleven award-winning projects completed by students across the four year groups on the BSc Architectural Design course at INDA feature in this Virtual Design Festival school show. Read more View the full article

Hans Ulrich Obrist, Frida Escobedo, Stefano Boeri and others take part in this panel discussion about the relationship between art and architecture organised by Therme Art as part of Virtual Design Festival today. Watch the talk here live at 2:00pm UK time. Read more View the full article

VDF products fair: Lighting designer David Trubridge has reissued his range of Cloud lights with a more sustainable design that replaces plastic with bamboo. Read more View the full article

Paris architecture studio Ateliers O-S Architectes has added a concrete and weathering steel extension to a junior school in the village of Lugrin overlooking Lake Geneva. Read more View the full article

Loneliness, money worries and the stress of trying to juggle working from home with caring commitments has had a negative impact on architects' mental health, the RIBA has warned. Read more View the full article

A greenery-filled courtyard lies at the heart of this home that Keiji Ashizawa Design has created for a family of five in Tokyo's Yoga neighbourhood. Read more View the full article

As we count down the days to the Dezeen Awards 2020 deadline on 2 June, Steve Trstenjak of Woods Bagot, says that he's hoping to see an "emphasis on sustainability". Read more View the full article