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This week has been all about wearable technology as we discovered shoes that could repair themselves and garments embedded with colour-changing ink (pictured) at the Wearable Futures event in London. Keep reading for more architecture and design news, as well as our Dezeen Music Project featured track. (more...) View the full article

Royal College of Art students Sandeep Hoonjan and Xianzhi Zhang have designed a pair of devices that allow people to physically experience conversations while apart during the coronavirus lockdown. Read more View the full article

Dezeen’s pop-up retail concept The Temporium guest-curates a collection of homeware for flash-sales site llustre this week, including The Masquerade Bud Vases by Spanish designer Jaime Hayon (above). Go to The Temporium on llustre.com » View the full article

German designer Konstanin Grcic has collaborated with British sailor Alex Thomson to design a black racing yacht for fashion brand Hugo Boss that will compete in a round-the-world race. (more…) View the full article

Medusa Group has designed Akademeia High School in Warsaw with a large central courtyard surrounded by stepped seating that leads to a herb garden roof. Read more

Here are the first official photographs of the completed 2011 Serpentine Gallery Pavilion, which was unveiled today by Swiss architect Peter Zumthor. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Animated illustrations by cartoonist Toby Morris and microbiologist Siouxsie Wiles explaining the importance of social distancing during the coronavirus outbreak have gone viral after they were published by a website in New Zealand. Read more View the full article

Leiria-based Contaminar Arquitetos has created a concrete house with an angular form based on caves found in the surrounding Portuguese limestone landscape. Read more View the full article

Studio Seilern Architects has built two restaurants at the top of Mount Gütsch – The Gütsch by Markus Neff and The Japanese by The Chedi Andermatt – at the Andermatt ski resort in Switzerland. Read more View the full article

With seven days to go until the Dezeen Awards early-entry discount ends, we've put together a day-by-day guide to help you meet the deadline. Read more

Atelier Rua has arranged living spaces in this pared-back Portuguese holiday home around an enormous living room, which has three different vistas of its verdant surroundings. Read more View the full article

Madrid studio Ábaton has rebuilt a crumbling stone stable in the countryside of western Spain and converted the building into a self-sufficient family home (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

In this movie, filmed at Ventura Lambrate in Milan, Arjan van Raadshooven from Vij5 talks to Dezeen about Newspaper Wood, a wood-like material made from recycled newspapers. Watch the movie » </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Canadian studio MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects used concrete, glass and wood to form an austere pool house in southern Quebec that references Mies van der Rohe's seminal Barcelona Pavilion. Read more

Dezeen Wire: car brand Nissan has unveiled its design for a new fleet of black cabs for London. (more…) View the full article

Multidisciplinary design studio Services Généraux has created a series of renderings that reimagine the interiors of a dilapidated home in the French countryside. Read more View the full article

Dezeen Watch Store is at trade show Interiors UK this week, along with a selection of the most successful designers and brands from The Temporium. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

British-American branding firm Wolff Olins has created a shapeshifting logo for South African telecoms company Oi that changes colour and form in response to people's voices (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

Children can crawl into the rear end of a wooden pig when visiting this playground installation by Spanish designer Jaime Hayón at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta. (more…) View the full article

Scroll on for all the latest from our recruitment site Dezeen Jobs, including positions with Philippe Starck (pictured), OMA and SOM, plus this is the last chance to apply for roles with PearsonLloyd, Aesop and more... (more...) View the full article

Portuguese artist Didier Faustino has created a mask that clamps over the faces of a kissing couple. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Zaha Hadid Architects have completed a showroom in London for Spanish bathroom brand Roca. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

A mix of retail and cultural facilities will make up the Wollert Neighbourhood Centre, which OMA has proposed for the town of Whittlesey, Australia. Read more View the full article

An indestructible jacket, elastic-band dresses and inflatable trousers are among the forward-thinking fashion we've featured this year. Here we roundup five creations that could be set to change the way we dress. Read more View the full article

Dezeen Wire: sports architecture firm Populous claims that original plans to air condition a stadium they are designing for the 2022 Football World Cup are too expensive and “notoriously unsustainable” when used in desert environments – The Independent Populous director John Barrow says they are now considering other options for creating a comfortable climate inside the Sports City stadium and is encouraging the Qatari government to alter its building schedule to give new technologies time to develop. You can see our previous story on the 2012 London Olympic stadium, also by Populous, and all our stadium stories here. </img> </img> </img> </…