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Bosses of Milan's Salone del Mobile furniture fair will meet this week to "assess the situation" as Lombardy and several northern Italian regions were locked down due to the coronavirus outbreak. Read more View the full article

Architects across America including BIG, KPF and Gensler have teamed up as part of an open-source project to manufacture face shields to protect hospital workers treating coronavirus patients. Read more View the full article

Architect Leticia Saá has woven historical features such as exposed brickwork and wooden pillars into the minimal interior of this open-plan apartment in Madrid. Read more View the full article

Designer Marjan van Aubel will speak to Dezeen in a Screentime conversation sponsored by Philips TV & Sound as part of Virtual Design Festival. Watch it here live from 2:00pm UK time. Read more View the full article

VDF products fair: The Hunter bags by German label Agnes Nordenholz are made from free-grazing sheep fur and loden – a traditional, waterproof Austrian fabric made from wool. Read more View the full article

Young Israeli designer Adi Zaffran Weisler has made a collection of jewellery from spent bullets. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

We’ve got together with New York architects WORKac to give away five copies of the second edition of 49 Cities, their study into design proposals for utopian metropolises. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This dress full of balloons by German artist Nicole Michniewski is one of ten outfits created by product designers, artists and architects for FASHIONCLASH Maastricht in the Netherlands last month. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Photographer Edmund Sumner has shared with us his photos of this house by Matharoo Associates in Ahmadabad, India, featuring shutters weighted with concrete balls. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

These branched pendant lights are by American designer Victor Vetterlein. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

An exhibition of work by Japanese fashion designer Yohji Yamamoto has opened at the V&A museum in London. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Korean designer Joongho Choi designed this chair to be carried over one shoulder like a handbag. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

The circular roof of a metro station near Copenhagen looms over sunken platforms like a spotty UFO. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Wire: Australian industrial designer Marc Newson has been announced as the recipient of the Lucky Strike Designer Award 2011, which includes a prize of €50,000. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen in Israel: artist and designer Ehud Oren presents furniture disguised as buildings in an exhibition at the Braverman Gallery in Tel Aviv. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Five years ago this week a restaurant by Philippe Starck opened in Beijing filled with chandeliers and velvet, while Foster + Partners revealed plans for Moscow that involved replacing a famous communist landmark. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Five years ago this week Dezeen was in Dubai, reporting on the jaw-dropping architectural projects being proposed for the Gulf states including a raised city in the shape of a cloud, an inhabited mountain-top dam and a convention centre that resembles the Death Star. (more…) View the full article

Earlier today we featured objects made of tarmac. Now here’s some furniture made of bricks by designers Rachel Griffin of Earnest Studio in Rotterdam and Emilie Pallard of Eindhoven. (more…) View the full article

Dezeen archive: we’ve featured a couple of stories about unusual maps recently, so here is a compilation of all the different maps we’ve published on Dezeen. See all the stories » See all our archive stories » View the full article

Stone bleachers climb onto the roof of this cultural centre in Molde, Norway, by Danish architects 3XN, creating open-air seating for visitors to the jazz festival hosted there each year (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

World Architecture Festival 2012: Vietnamese architect Vo Trong Nghia won two awards at the World Architecture Festival last month and in this second interview he discusses how “green buildings” that use less energy are the future of architecture in Vietnam, like his naturally ventilated Binh Duong School that won the schools category. (more…) View the full article

The letter E in our A-Zdvent calendar is HOUS.E+, a concept by architects Polifactory for a rammed earth house that generates energy from a lake on its roof. Read more about HOUS.E+ » View the full article

Icelandic artist and director Harald Haraldsson turned a wall of bookshelves into a fractured and futuristic backdrop for this music video (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

Product news: Dutch designer Pepe Heykoop has created a paper cover to turn any glass jar or bottle into a faceted vase, sold to help impoverished women in Mumbai make a living. (more...) View the full article

New York fashion designer Aina Beck experimented with foil printing to create the dappled metallic patterns in her latest capsule collection. (more...) View the full article