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Week seven of Virtual Design Festival features a special collaboration with designer Tom Dixon and talks with architects including Frida Escobedo and Junya Ishigami. We also premiere a new film by Laura Mark and Jim Stephenson, in which architect Eva Jiřičná discusses some of Zaha Hadid's most iconic buildings. Read more View the full article

London designers Sybarite have fitted out this boutique in Bengaluru, India, with a modular system of hourglass-shaped shelves (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Cologne 2012: Dutch designer Bertjan Pot showed this chair made of a tennis net at imm cologne last week. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Bayalpata Hospital is a medical complex in Achham, Nepal, built from rammed earth by American architecture office Sharon Davis Design. Read more View the full article

A golden cape woven from the silk of over a million wild spiders is on show at the V&A museum in London. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

We’ve teamed up with Dutch design organisation Premsela to offer readers a chance to win one of five copies of Open Design Now: Why Design Cannot Remain Exclusive. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

A glazed tower sits atop the volcanic stone facade of this performing arts centre in Belfast to create a beacon above the surrounding rooftops. (more…) View the full article

The world's first 3D-printed bridge, a humanoid walrus and a Dezeen panel discussion on the anthropocene are among our top 10 Instagram highlights from Dutch Design Week 2018. Read more View the full article

Studies have found that the bright lights and glazing of towering structures in US cities including New York, Chicago and Los Angeles are causing millions of migratory birds to die each year. Read more

Circular Union is launching Mush-Hues, a range of mushroom-based wood and fabric dyes, for the VDF x Ventura Projects collaboration. Read more View the full article

Rafael Viñoly's Walkie Talkie skyscraper in London stole the limelight when it reflected the September sun onto cars parked nearby and caused them to melt. (more...) View the full article

Dezeen promotion: UK design show designjunction will return to London Design Festival from 18 to 21 September 2014, with an expanded space and an exclusive exhibition by Dezeen and MINI. (more...) View the full article

This aid kit is designed to nestle between Coca-Cola bottles to bring medicine to remote locations through the drinks company's vast distribution channels. (more...) View the full article

Dezeen Screen: in this interview taken from our series of Dezeen Talks filmed at the Inside awards in Barcelona, Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs talks to Nick Barratt-Boyes of Studio Pacific and Ralph Roberts of Warren & Mahoney about their design for a new terminal at Wellington International Airport, where copper-clad structures connect three exisiting buildings. Watch the movie » </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> 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

Bicycles are displayed in backlit boxes at this Barcelona bike store designed by architect Joan Sandoval. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This week on Dezeen: London's Royal College of Art hit the headlines this week following the suspension of its world-famous Design Interactions course and supermodel Kate Moss (pictured right) announced her foray into interior design. (more…) View the full article

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

To mark World Oceans Day, VDF collaborates with environmental organisation Parley for the Oceans to host a live Screentime conversation with its founder Cyrill Gutsch. Watch the broadcast from 6pm UK time. Read more View the full article

The world's first edible insect farms have gone into production after a successful Kickstarter campaign by Katharina Unger and her company Livin Farms. Read more View the full article

Royal College of Art student Dan Watson has designed a trawling net that filters young and endangered fish from the catch. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Positioned at the base of a dormant volcano on Japan's Hokkaido Island, this simple gabled holiday home by Florian Busch Architects is perfectly positioned for skiers. Read more View the full article

There are just three weeks left to enter the Dezeen x Samsung Out of the Box Competition to design household objects made from repurposed cardboard packaging. Read more View the full article

This week, readers are debating whether closing parks is necessary in the fight against coronavirus. Read more View the full article

London interior architects Universal Design Studio have completed the interior of a new store in Manchester, UK, for fashion brand Mulberry. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article