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The battle between BIG and OMA to redesign the Miami Beach Convention Center leads Dezeen Mail issue 152, plus all the latest news, jobs and reader comments from Dezeen. Read Dezeen Mail issue 151 | Subscribe to Dezeen Mail 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

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

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

Today's VDF takeover comes courtesy of New York design magazine Sight Unseen, which is presenting new work from 51 designers featured in its Offsite Online event via a digital programme of exhibitions and shows for Virtual Design Festival. Read more View the full article

News: developers are building a private city on the outskirts of Guatemala City as a safe haven from the crime-ridden capital. (more...) View the full article

Qubique 2011: look carefully at these tables by Berlin-based collective llot llov and you’ll see that there’s a mirror in the wooden under-frame. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Concrete block and fibre-cement boards were among the materials used by American firm In Situ Studio to create this hillside home for a retired couple living in North Carolina. Read more

Fallen stars, glowing red dominoes and a vine-covered tree are some of the lights installed by artists, designers and architects in Lisbon this Christmas (photographs by Fernando Guerra). (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This top-heavy house by Japanese architect Kota Mizuishi overlooks a river in west Tokyo. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This week, some readers are envious of architect Timothee Mercier's parents after he converted an unused farm building in France into a new home for them. Read more View the full article

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

Milan's Mandalaki Design Studio has created a series of lights that cast boldly coloured orbs across walls, ceilings and floors. Read more View the full article

As part of the VDF collaboration with Beatie Wolfe, the singer-songwriter has shared this exclusive preview of From Green to Red, a forthcoming interactive environmental protest installation. Read more View the full article

Stockholm 2015: Swedish designer Monica Förster has collaborated with Spanish company Cosentino Group to form a collection of outdoor candle holders and trays using new synthetic stone material Dekton. (more…) View the full article

Today's collaboration between Virtual Design Festival and filmmakers Laura Mark and Jim Stephenson sees the launch of their film Zaha Hadid: Words by Eva Jiřičná. Read more View the full article

Dezeenwire: the lineup of readers at Once Upon a Dream: London Tastemakers in Bed with Veuve Clicquot this week has been announced. See schedule below. More about Once Upon a Dream: London Tastemakers in Bed with Veuve Clicquot » All our stories about London Design Festival 2010 » (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Public Works has created an installation focused on maid's rooms in Lebanon at the Sharjah Architecture Triennial to highlight the windowless servants quarters built in developments across the region. Read more View the full article

In the final instalment of our exclusive Archigram video series for VDF, architect Dennis Crompton explains that the avant-garde architecture group didn't just want to create conceptual projects and almost realised a building in Monte Carlo. Read more View the full article

The wood-lined terrace walls of this Australian house angle outwards to provide a shady spot for its owners to take in views of their vineyard (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Design studio Casa Josephine arranged yellow, red and deep-blue tiles to create the "emphatically geometrical" interior of this advertising office in Madrid. Read more View the full article

Dezeen Wire: in his latest review for The Observer architecture critic Rowan Moore criticises Daniel Libeskind‘s angular five-storey extension to the Military History Museum in Dresden, stating that ”something so large and conspicuous should surely be more than a gesture.” (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Designer Martino Gamper has curated an exhibition at London's Serpentine Sackler Gallery featuring classic and contemporary shelving systems that display objects chosen by friends and colleagues including Ron Arad, Marc Newson and Ross Lovegrove. (more...) View the full article

In the second part of today's collaboration between Virtual Design Festival and Forward Festival, Erik Spiekermann shares seven propositions for designers to remember. 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