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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…

Japanese architects Ikeda Yukie have completed a house with rounded edges for an elderly couple. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Bestselling timepieces by Hong Kong-based brand Void have arrived at Dezeen Watch Store in new colour combinations. Read more View the full article

Scroll on for all the latest from our recruitment site Dezeen Jobs, including positions with Herzog & de Meuron in Switzerland, Marcel Wanders in the Netherlands and Levi Strauss in Belgium, plus this is the last chance to apply for roles with designers Tom Dixon, Paul Cocksedge and more… (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

An exhibition of Norwegian design will return to the London Design Festival in September, with a new focus on the country's manufacturing industry (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Scroll on for all the latest from our recruitment site Dezeen Jobs, including positions with us at Dezeen and architects Herzog & De Meuron, plus this is the last chance to apply for roles with Heatherwick Studio, The Museum of Everything and more… (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Milliken has launched its latest flooring collections at VDF products fair, including Social Factor carpet tiles that encourage physical distancing in the workplace. Read more View the full article

Slideshow: sports brand Nike have created a range of running shoes with knitted uppers made in one piece. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen speaks to designers including Irina and Olga Sundukovy and Natali Canas del Pozo about the future of wellbeing in this talk hosted by ceramics brand Villeroy & Boch. Watch it live from Barcelona at 7:30pm Spanish time. Read more View the full article

Our most controversial story this week announced writer Alain de Botton’s plans to erect temples for atheists across the UK – read the story and join the debate here. It also emerged that Disney were selling a T-shirt inspired by the 1979 album cover of Unknown Pleasures by Joy Division, but don’t rush to order one as they’ve all sold. We also showed a robe made of golden silk harvested from over a million wild spiders and a tower built by flying robots. Our most popular story featured a blackened timber house surrounded by sheep on a Portuguese island and readers showed a lot of love for the bottle-shaped shutters of a wine shop in Prague, but argued about the sloping …

Dezeen Wire: Chicago firm Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture have won a competition to design the Wuhan Greenland Center in Hubei province, China, which is set to be the world’s fourth-tallest building. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Individuals could cut their greenhouse-gas emissions by replacing meals with algae grown at home using the countertop Spira device by recent design graduate Rob Russell. Read more View the full article

Tokyo 2011: French designer Emmanuelle Moureaux presented a wedding dress made from 500 snowflake-like baubles at this year’s DesignTide Tokyo. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

The armrests of these chairs by Swedish designers Claesson Koivisto Rune reach out as though asking for a hug. (more...) View the full article

The original brick walls and a high timber-trussed ceiling are left exposed inside this former barn in Suffolk, which has been converted into a contemporary home by David Nossiter Architects. Read more View the full article

Dutch designer Maarten Baas has explained how he has adapted to coronavirus lockdown in a short video message recorded for Virtual Design Festival. Read more View the full article

Metal curtains can be drawn across the windows of this three-and-a-half-metre-wide house in Osaka by FujiwaraMuro Architects, which features a split-level layout with multiple staircases. Read more View the full article

Week six of Virtual Design Festival features a collaboration with Prague's centre for architecture and urban planning CAMP, including a live interview with Kengo Kuma. We also team up with magazine Sight Unseen and Stockholm Design Week, plus we launch a new series of Screentime interviews featuring leading designers sponsored by Philips. Read more View the full article

Dezeen Wire: architecture critic Rowan Moore claims that corporate facilities integrated into the plans for the controversial London River Park would turn it into a “gigantic hospitality suite with a fairly nice walkway threaded through it” – The Observer Moore describes architects Gensler‘s proposal as “the latest example of a widespread type of the 21st century, the pseudo-public space.” He criticises the design for the walkway and rentable pods, describing them as “offensively indifferent” to their historical surroundings and says the project organisers should learn from New York’s High Line park in order to turn a good idea into a popular public space. See our pre…

Architecture students Angus Ritchie and Daniel Tyler have designed and built a mirrored lookout point in a Scottish national park that both frames and reflects views of the surrounding lochs and glens (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

A fluorescent cabinet and an ottoman that homages Finding Nemo are featured in the final collection by graduate furniture design students from the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), presented here as part of VDF x Sight Unseen. Read more View the full article

Daily coronavirus briefing: today's architecture and design coronavirus briefing includes fashionable fundraisers, a citywide open-air bar and a prediction for the end of the pandemic. Read more View the full article

Slideshow: our second project this week by Stuttgart architects Werner Sobek Design is a huge cantilevered altar that was temporarily constructed in Freiberg, Germany, for the pope’s visit last year (photographs by Zooey Braun). (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Architecture studio Generate has unveiled plans to build a carbon-neutral apartment block, named Model-C, in Boston using a cross-laminated timber "kit of parts". Read more View the full article

Visitors can climb a staircase over the roof of this spiralling community centre in Lille by French architects Colboc Franzen & Associés. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article