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Italian practice Caret Studio has installed the StoDistante installation in an Italian square to encourage social-distancing as a temporary solution for reactivating public spaces after Covid-19 lockdown ends. Read more View the full article

London architect Henry Goss has revealed how photo-realistic and 3D visualisations helped shape his design for this house in Hertfordshire, England, which is also the first output from the renderings studio he recently launched with fellow artist Peter Guthrie (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Concrete forms and outdoor passageways define this waterfront dwelling in the Turks and Caicos islands, which was designed by US studio Rick Joy Architects to embrace the natural landscape. Read more View the full article

Congested infrastructure and limited public space are among the issues tackled by students from the Caribbean School of Architecture, in the proposals presented here as part of their VDF school show. Read more View the full article

When creating this hand-painted music video for Oakland musician Makeunder, Carine Khalife looked to the works of figurative painter Francis Bacon (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

News: Danish design brand Carl Hansen & Søn has changed its logo back to one originally created by legendary furniture designer Hans J. Wegner in 1950, in honour of the 100th anniversary of his birth. (more...) View the full article

Hans J Wegner's Wing and Oculus armchairs have been updated with black frames by Danish brand Carl Hansen & Søn. Read more View the full article

Danish design brand Carl Hansen & Søn has put Ole Wanscher's 1964 Colonial Sofa back into production to complement the designer's popular Colonial Chair. (more…)

Swedish designer David Ericsson has created a furniture range made from leather, wood and linen for his thesis project at the Carl Malmsten Workshop in Sweden. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

London architect Carl Turner has developed a design for a prefabricated floating house and has made the plans available to download via an open-source architecture website. (more…) View the full article

External staircases connect the three stories of this cast-concrete house overlooking a lake in Norway by architect Carl-Viggo Hølmebakk (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Rotated wings connected by a central volume make up this hilltop mansion by Los Angeles studio Walker Workshop, which features a cinema, an infinity pool and a spacious "party deck". Read more

Spanish architect Carles Enrich has inserted a plywood box beneath the vaulted ceilings of an early 20th-century apartment in Barcelona to create a new bathroom and kitchen unit. (more...) View the full article

Vacation pods in a climate change-stricken New York and a money-laundering bank for the Japanese government are among the concepts presented here by Carleton University's MArch students in this VDF school show. Read more View the full article

Wearers can update their clothing with new political messaging each day, with the augmented-reality The Last Statement T-shirt from Swedish retailer Carlings. Read more View the full article

Italian architects Carlo Ratti and Italo Rota have designed an intensive-care pod within a shipping container that could be added to hospitals fighting the coronavirus pandemic. Read more View the full article

Milan 2016: Italian architect Carlo Ratti has created a system of smart modular seats that can be adjusted with an app or hand gestures into different configurations (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

Construction has started on a digitally connected co-living and co-working retreat in the Himalayas, designed by Italian architect Carlo Ratti. (more…) View the full article

Hospitals and universities are "dinosaurs" that need to be redesigned in the wake of coronavirus, according to architect Carlo Ratti. Read more View the full article

Italian architect Carlo Ratti has unveiled plans to build a mile-high observation tower, envisioned as a vertical alternative to New York's Central Park. (more…) View the full article

Italian architect Carlo Ratti has grown a series of arched architectural structures from mushroom mycelium, which will be returned to the soil after serving their purpose at Milan design week in a fully circular fashion. Read more

Paris' famous Périphérique ring road could have its car lanes slashed by half and replaced by a playground in the switch to driverless cars, says Carlo Ratti. Read more

This ceiling-mounted installation by Italian architect Carlo Ratti uses motion tracking to direct personalised "clouds" of water vapour at anyone walking beneath. (more…) View the full article

Architect and MIT professor Carlo Ratti stokes the surveillance debate with his biennale exhibition, which is set in a working train station in China and actively uses facial-recognition technology. Read more View the full article

Italian architect Carlo Ratti has designed a system for an office in Turin that instructs heating, lighting and cooling systems to follow occupants around the building like an "individually-tailored environmental bubble". (more…) View the full article