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A community project in Venezuela and an adult playground are among the experiential concepts envisioned by seven students from New York's Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) in this Virtual Design Festival schools exhibition of graduate work. Read more View the full article

Rama Estudio has fronted this apartment block in Ambato, Ecuador with wooden louvres to encourage interactions between residents and passersby. Read more

This range of tables by Swedish company Massproductions features simple poles on circular bases with interchangeable tops. (more…) View the full article

Jose Sanchez creates educational, architecture-led video games at design studio Plethora Project. He tells the Dezeen Jobs careers guide how he applies an architectural mindset to the gaming industry. Read more

A timber pavilion called Biobasecamp at Dutch Design Week brought together projects that demonstrate the potential of the "concrete of the future" to fight against climate change. Read more View the full article

Dezeenwire: Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs will interview designers Stefan Diez, Marco Susani and Harald Gründl live on stage from 12.30 in the The Ramazzotti D3 Lounge at imm Cologne today, as part of our Dezeentalks at [D3] Design Talents series. The interviews will be broadcast on Dezeen at a later date. More info plus the full schedule in our earlier story. See films of all the Dezeentalks at last year’s fair here. </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Wire: the Royal Institute of British Architects in London have launched a competition to design new electricity pylons for the UK: (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Cologne 2014: a grid of thin wooden strips supports the surface of this table by German designer Ruben Beckers to make it extremely lightweight (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Dezeen Wire: U.S. opinion columnist Harold Meyerson has written an article for the Washington Post in which he challenges assertions made in Walter Isaacson’s bestselling biography of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs that it is America’s ability to produce innovators such as Jobs that will keep them ahead of emerging industrial powers such as China and India. Meyerson opines that Silicon Valley’s creativity and technical expertise are not enough to revitalise the American economy, arguing that it is more important that Apple consider relocating production back to the U.S. He concludes his piece by stating that: “Absent manufacturing, innovation, even at its Jobsian heights, …

Ponds fed by the Yellowstone River provide natural water features around this home by Hughes Umban Hower Architects, located on a ranch in Big Timber, Montana (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Brighton-based design studio Gomi has created a portable bluetooth speaker using plastic waste that is deemed non-recyclable by local councils in the UK. Read more

Dezeen Screen: in this movie filmed by Dezeen at the Telling Tales exhibition at the Ligne Roset Westend showroom, central London owner of Ligne Roset Robert Hasty talks about the pieces that French designer Philippe Nigro has created for the brand. Watch the movie » </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Opinion: unbridled materialism, technology and design combine to challenge the meaning of personhood in William Gibson's latest sci-fi novel. The foundations for this future are already being laid in real life, says Justin McGuirk. (more…) View the full article

Steven Holl Architects have collaborated with Brazilian architect Solange Fabião on this wave-shaped museum of the sea in Biarritz, France, which opened this week. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

These desks by London architects Studio Octopi were designed to look like miniature basketball courts. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

 Dezeen Screen: in this movie filmed by Dezeen at the Telling Tales exhibition at the Ligne Roset Westend showroom, central London owner of Ligne Roset Robert Hasty talks about pieces by Jean Nouvel and Inga Sempé. Watch the movie » </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Harriet Harris, dean of the Pratt Institute School of Architecture in New York, will speak to Dezeen in this live Screentime conversation sponsored by Enscape as part of Virtual Design Festival. Watch above from 2:00pm UK time. Read more View the full article

Open House London takes place this weekend, giving members of the public access to 750 buildings. Dezeen editor Anna Winston picks 10 of the best houses and apartments that will open their doors to nosy visitors and architecture enthusiasts. (more…) View the full article

Sleepy Littlehampton now boasts more headline-grabbing design than many cities, with projects by Thomas Heatherwick, Asif Khan and others. Dezeen tracked down the woman who spread architecture through the town "like a contagious disease" (+ slideshow + interview). (more...) View the full article

In this short interview we conducted as part of our Food and Design report for luxury kitchen appliances brand Scholtès, Dutch designer Marieke van der Bruggen explains Public Pie, an open-air kitchen where the food is cooked in front of you. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Spanish studio Virai Arquitectos have completed a sandstone winery that is partially submerged in the ground. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Photo essay: these images by Spanish photographer Victor Enrich show Frank Lloyd Wright's Guggenheim Museum transported to a Colombian city neighbourhood suffering from an identity crisis (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

This week Thomas Heatherwick unveiled the prototype of his New Bus for London, Snøhetta released proposals for a Maggie’s cancer care centre in Aberdeen and Foster + Partners won a competition to design a high-speed rail station in northwest Spain. Readers decided Zaha Hadid’s car park for Miami beach must have been designed with action movie settings in mind and two New York designers sent us pictures of their handy riot-shield-cum-coffee-table invention. English heritage announced that the iconic 1986 Lloyd’s of London building designed by Richard Rogers is to be given Grade I listed status and a team of Dutch designers including Hella Jongerius, architect Rem Koolh…

Studio Eva Natasa has unveiled five wooden furniture pieces at the VDF products fair, including the minimalist L06 table that takes its cues from the Asian culture of floor dining. Read more View the full article

This year's Art Basel and the Design Miami/Basel collectors fair, which were postponed from June to September, have now been cancelled altogether due to coronavirus. Read more View the full article