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A stack of intersecting concrete and metal cuboids combines to create this long, narrow home in Shiga, Japan by FORM/Kouichi Kimura Architects. Read more

Our selection of the most promising architecture and design roles on Dezeen Jobs this week includes positions at MAD and WilkinsonEyre. Read more

Stanton Williams, Grimshaw and dRMM are three of many UK architecture practices taking to the streets to protest political inaction over climate change in today's Global Climate Strike. Read more

British designer Vivienne Westwood has said that "we haven't got time to talk about fashion" in light of the climate crisis, and is instead calling for a ban on private land ownership with her One World Rent campaign. Read more

Dezeen Day, our international architecture and design conference, is tomorrow! Didn't manage to get a ticket? Follow along on our Twitter page as we tweet from the event starting at 9am UK time, and join the discussion using #dezeenday. Read more View the full article

Design gallery The Future Perfect is exhibiting weird and wonderful ceramic homeware and accessories across its locations in Los Angeles, New York and San Francisco. Read more View the full article

Japanese studio Takeru Shoji Architects has completed Hara House, a village home designed to look like a tent. Read more View the full article

Sudraba Arhitektüra has reinforced the dilapidated shell of an abandoned 20th-century railway warehouse in Riga and turned it into a concert hall. Read more View the full article

Samsung has brought the early noughties flip phone into the 21st century with its Galaxy Z Flip smartphone, which has a 6.7-inch flexible glass display that folds down to fit in the palm of your hand. Read more View the full article

Architectural designers Ivo Tedbury and Freddie Hong have created a 3D-printed device that adapts door handles for hands-free opening, in a bid to help prevent the spread of coronavirus. Read more View the full article

Daily coronavirus briefing: today's architecture and design coronavirus briefing includes architecture films chosen by Dezeen readers and hospital gowns made from airbags. Read more View the full article

Kodai Shimizu is presenting Craft-Techmen Project, a series of hand-sewn home appliances, for the VDF x Ventura Projects collaboration. Read more View the full article

The Venice Architecture Biennale has announced that this year's event will be postponed until 2021 due to coronavirus, with the scheduled Art Biennale being pushed back to 2022. Read more View the full article

London industrial designers Priestmangoode propose hospital wards modelled on health spas and beds like those in first class airline cabins in a new manifesto for health service design, released today. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Trend forecaster Li Edelkoort studied fashion design but found she was better at predicting the future than drawing. She spoke to Dezeen about her career and why, at a time of crisis, she is hopeful for the future. Read more View the full article

Dezeen and publishers John Wiley & Sons have teamed up to offer our readers the chance to win one of five copies of I Wish I Worked There by Kursty Groves. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Swiss architects Herzog and de Meuron have designed this apartment tower with overhanging floor plates and terraces for Beirut, Lebanon. Created as part of a wider masterplan to regenerate this area of the city that includes a marina, the building will comprise five different modular floor slabs used in varying combinations to create a mixture of [...]</img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

DezeenTV: in the final movie from our series of Dezeentalks at [D3] Design Talents, Germany-based designer Reinhard Dienes tells us about his design philosophy, his most recent furniture and lighting designs, and the picture he wakes up to every morning. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Architectural photographer Edmund Sumner has sent us his images of Tokyo Apartment by Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto, four house-shaped apartments stacked on top of each other. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This faceted red volume in a Shanghai office, designed by 3Gatti Architecture Studio of Rome and Shanghai, houses two meeting rooms and a cafe. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Vienna designers Mischer’Traxler have created a series of lights where two found lamps share one fluorescent bulb. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

London designers Yael Mer and Shay Alkalay of Raw Edges created an animated pond at the Bloomberg offices in London using equipment the company had thrown away. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeenwire: architect Nigel Coates is to retire from his role as head of architecture at the Royal College of Art in London after 16 years. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Wire: former Foreign Office Architects co-founder Farshid Moussavi has announced the opening of her new studio, Farshid Moussavi Architecture (FMA). (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Wire: with 30 Habitat stores in the hands of administrators, the Guardian’s Andy Beckett asks how this iconic British design retailer can be saved – Guardian </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article