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In the final part of Virtual Design Festival's collaboration with Zoomed In festival, we are broadcasting a discussion with architectural photographers Dennis Gilbert and Jim Stephenson, who will be screening films from their personal archives. The event will be live-streamed at 7pm UK time. Read more View the full article

Judges and VIPs joined architects and designers from all over the world at Ennismore Sessions House in London for this year's Dezeen Awards party. Read more View the full article

VDF products fair: Nine spindly portraits of imaginary characters feature on the Silhouette rugs that Jaime Hayon has designed for Nanimarquina. Read more View the full article

Foster + Partners have unveiled designs for an new international airport in Kuwait. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeenwire: architects Office for Metropolitan Architecture have been commissioned to design the new strategy and identity for Hong Kong transport authority MTR, including two new stations. See press release below. See all our stories about OMA » (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Inside 2011: finally, Table No.1 by NHDRO wins the bars and restaurants category at the Inside awards in Barcelona. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

As part of Peroni Nastro Azzurro‘s series of talks on Italian design, Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs will chair a discussion with Italian designers Formafantasma at the RIBA in London on 26 April. (more…) View the full article

The roof of this house in Hashimoto, Japan, by designers Yoshio Oono Architect & Associates folds around to become an exterior canopy with triangular reveals. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Chairs that double up as ladders, clotheshorses, shelves or lamps are part of a collection of furniture by Korean designer Seung-Yong Song. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

These spinning ‘light paintings’ made with sparkling crystal beads by designer Philippe Malouin are currently on show in the Digital Crystal exhibition at London’s Design Museum (+ movie + slideshow). (more…) View the full article

This time last year we featured a couple of wacky clocks – a timepiece of unfurling paper that creates ever-changing shapes, and a belt-driven clock for an architect. We also revealed the news that Norman Foster was working on proposals for a new California campus for computer giant Apple, which we published in the summer. Meanwhile Singaporean designer Tan Lun Cheak produced a glass table that doubles up as a cooker and Milan designer Emanuele Pizzolorusso created a set of paper maps that can survive being screwed up in a pocket or rucksack. We featured a residence clad in tarred black shingles from the Living Architecture series of holiday homes, as well as a large ho…

US designers Yitan Sun and Jianshi Wu have proposed transforming Manhattan's Central Park into a sunken landscape encircled by a below-grade megastructure with office, housing, retail and cultural space. (more…) View the full article

Danish furniture brand Fritz Hansen has commissioned seven architects including Zaha Hadid, Jean Nouvel and Snøhetta to reimagine the Series 7 chair by Danish Modernist Arne Jacobsen, to celebrate the iconic product's 60th anniversary. (more…) View the full article

This week on Dezeen: Apple opened a new store in Brussels this week (pictured) – the first since Jonathan Ive became the company's chief design officer – and Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec spoke exclusively to Dezeen about their Serif television for Samsung. (more…) View the full article

Architects and designers have joined over a million people around the world in posting a black square to Instagram in solidarity with those protesting for racial equality following the death of George Floyd in police custody. Read more View the full article

Marble details offset the traditional features of this 19th-century house near Paris, which has been renovated by Spanish studio 05 AM Arquitectura. Read more View the full article

Royal College of Art graduate Cas Dahmen has envisioned the future of high-end waterborne public transport with an autonomous and electric hydrofoil catamaran. Read more View the full article

Swedish studio Atelier Alba has created a compact sofa for Fogia with a chunky wooden frame based on the furniture traditionally found in Swedish family kitchens. Read more View the full article

Dezeen Wire: supporters of Chinese artist Ai Weiwei have been posting photos of themselves naked on a website as a protest against the Beijing police’s decision to question his assistant, who had taken nude pictures of the artist and four women – The Telegraph Ai was detained for 81 days earlier this year by the Chinese government on charges of tax evasion, during which time he was also asked about the photographs that he says have no deeper political meaning. </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Concrete columns draped in greenery, steel beams filled with books and a small pool feature in this apartment in Quito, Ecuador that local architect Aquiles Jarrín has overhauled for a family of three and their dog. Read more View the full article

Argentinian architects Adamo-Faiden have completed a building in Buenos Aires that could either be used for offices or apartments. (more…) View the full article

The latest edition of Dezeen Weekly includes Li Edelkoort's predictions for life post-coronavirus, Hyundai's all-black electric car and Dezeen's new Face to Face podcast series. Subscribe to Dezeen Weekly › View the full article

Beijing tech startup Zero Zero Robotics has launched a self-flying drone camera that uses facial recognition to record video while hovering in the air. (more…) View the full article

Expo 2020 Dubai will take place in 2021 after Bureau International des Expositions, the body that awards and overseas World Expos, voted to postpone the event due to coronavirus. Read more View the full article

Corten steel walls, a circular window and a big cross all feature in this house renovated by Raúl Sánchez Architects for a winery in Catalonia. Read more View the full article