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Architecture firm Imbue Design has designed this low-lying off-grid residence on a desolate, grassy lot in Idaho for a family to "distance themselves from social stresses". Read more View the full article

Dezeen Wire: architect Frank Gehry has confirmed that he has submitted designs for projects in China and India as difficult economic conditions in the US have led to a decline in development - Bloomberg (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeenwire: California architects Pugh + Scarpa have announced that the firm is to split - Architechnophilia </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Spanish designers CuldeSac have designed this high-chair with removable legs and accessories so that it’s still useful when the child starts to grow. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

The rounded wooden legs and tops of these stools by Norm Architects of Denmark are joined by brass or steel tubes. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dutch designer Maarten Baas designed this chair with a ladder-back reaching into the sky for human rights charity Amnesty International. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

LED lights illuminate the gridded concrete structure of Boston's brutalist city hall, which has been renovated by local firm Utile. Read more View the full article

Spanish firm Nook Architects has renovated a Barcelona apartment by adding patterned floor tiles plus a combined step and window seat leading out onto the terrace (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Theodora Alfredsdottir speaks to Dezeen in a live Screentime conversation sponsored by Philips TV & Sound as part of Virtual Design Festival. Watch the broadcast from 2:15pm UK time. Read more View the full article

Dezeen promotion: UK manufacturer Forbo has released its Tessera Earthscape carpet tile collection, which takes design cues from colours and textures found in nature in a bid to promote wellbeing. Read more View the full article

To coincide with the opening of Agnes Martin's retrospective at the Guggenheim Museum in New York, fashion brand COS has created a collection based on the artist's works. Read more View the full article

UNStudio founder Ben van Berkel says the architecture firm is researching "how design can support the sectors that are in need" after the effects of the coronavirus pandemic, in a video message for Virtual Design Festival. Read more View the full article

Northmodern 2016: glass-fronted cabinets and pick-and-mix lighting systems feature in Danish brand Ferm Living's Autumn Winter 2016 collection (slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Stripes of paving, plants and lighting form the entrance to Ben- Gurion University campus in Be’er Sheba, Israel, designed by Israeli firm Chyutin Architects. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Opinion: Santiago Calatrava's World Trade Center transit hub may be Instagram-friendly, but it is part of a troubling trend for public spending on spaces that aren't really public at all, says Alan G Brake. (more…) View the full article

Dezeen Wire: in her latest article for The New York Times, design critic Alice Rawsthorn examines the symbols and slogans adopted by the Occupy protest movement in cities around the world. Rawsthorn explains that the name ‘Occupy’, which originated at the Occupy Wall Street protest against the banking and democratic system, “is a stellar example of both what is known in marketing as an umbrella brand name and what the anti-corporatists in the movement could call beating them at their own game.” She adds that the use of hashtags and slogans short enough to send on social networks such as Twitter have helped the movement spread globally and could represent a new protocol …

Dezeen Wire: architecture critic Jay Merrick has praised the £22 million extension of Cardiff’s Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama by BFLS Architects, explaining that the spaces perform functionally as well as succeeding in “generating an atmosphere that can only be described as happening.” (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Following the popularity of his series of video blogs for VDF, Tokyo architect Martin van der Linden has created a special movie about the post-coronavirus office, in which he wonders whether physical workspaces will become entirely digital. Read more View the full article

This medical research centre in Lisbon by Indian architects Charles Correa Associates has a curved stone form with circular cut-aways. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Here are some more images of the lounge designed by Belgian artists Studio Job for the Groninger Museum in the Netherlands (see our earlier story). (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

As the final part of today's VDF x Beatie Wolfe collaboration, the musician speaks live to Dezeen founder Marcus Fairs before performing three of her tracks. Read more View the full article

New York architecture practice Axis Mundi have designed a conceptual extension to the Whitney Museum of American Art in Manhattan, featuring a giant lattice structure. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Taiwan designers Paradox Studio created a wall of undulating wooden blocks to display products at this shop in Taipei. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Melbourne interior design studio The Stella Collective has designed this Sydney office interior to resemble a luxury penthouse or boutique hotel rather than a corporate workspace. Read more View the full article

Indian architect Balkrishna Vithaldas Doshi reflects on 70 years of pioneering architectural projects in the Royal Academy of Arts' annual architecture lecture, which we streamed live via our Facebook page. Read more View the full article