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Furniture company IKEA has designed six play houses that can be built with its products to entertain children in coronavirus lockdown. Read more View the full article

Tom Kundig has selected his 10 favourite projects, including a house in Rio de Janeiro and a hillside winery in British Columbia, ahead of the release of a monograph detailing the American architect's work. Read more View the full article

As the final part of today's VDF x Rosey Chan collaboration, the musician will speak live to Dezeen before sharing two exclusive improvised performances. Watch the broadcast from 5:00pm UK time. Read more View the full article

VDF studio profiles: scientific research meets design at Studio ThusThat, a multidisciplinary practice whose work exposes the hidden potential in the material world. Read more View the full article

The Sidewalk Toronto smart city was scuppered by a combination of local opposition, excessive secrecy and the prioritisation of profit and technology over sustainability and community, according to architect Ben van Berkel. Read more View the full article

Dezeen promotion: UK manufacturer Forbo has released its Tessera Earthscape carpet tile collection, which takes design cues from colours and textures found in nature in a bid to promote wellbeing. Read more View the full article

VDF's collaboration with musician Rosey Chan continues with this video showing Chan's performance at the opening of Fredrikson Stallard's Hybrideae exhibition. Read more View the full article

Matthias Sauerbruch and Louisa Hutton, of Berlin architecture practice Sauerbruch Hutton, will speak to Dezeen in this live Screentime conversation sponsored by Enscape as part of Virtual Design Festival. Watch above from 2:00pm UK time. Read more View the full article

Austin Maynard Architects has transformed the quality of light inside a narrow Melbourne house, by creating a greenhouse-like space at its centre. Read more View the full article

Architecture photographer Marc Goodwin has shared photos of architecture studios in Madrid taken just before the country went into lockdown along with messages from the studios now. Read more View the full article

Composer and pianist Rosey Chan teamed up with architect Patrik Schumacher of Zaha Hadid Architects to create this short movie that sets parametric architectural imagery to music. Read more View the full article

Multidisciplinary design consultancy Matter has designed three conceptual cervical cancer examinations that women could carry out themselves at home to break the taboo of smear tests. Read more View the full article

Today VDF teams up with musician Rosey Chan, starting with this exclusive preview of her collaboration with artist Eyal Gever and dancer and choreographer Sharon Eyal. Plus Chan launches a playlist of compositions intended to help listeners to cope with coronavirus lockdown. Read more View the full article

Influential design exhibitions platform Ventura Projects is to cease operating after ten years of organising exhibitions in Milan and other cities due to the impact of coronavirus. Read more View the full article

A huge arched window punctuates the grey-brick exterior of and education centre built by Adam Richards Architects in the grounds of a 16th-century castle in the English town of Deal, Kent. Read more View the full article

Dezeen promotion: decaying flowers, abstract blocks of colour and imaginary characters feature in Nanimarquina's latest rug collections. Read more View the full article

Amsterdam arts centre Mediamatic has set up a socially-distanced dining experience where guests sit in their own greenhouse and hosts wear face shields. Read more View the full article

Californian firm Ryan Leidner Architecture has used bright white paint and lush greenery to refresh a mid-century modern Eichler home in Silicon Valley that was completed in the 1960s. Read more View the full article

The latest edition of our Dezeen Weekly newsletter includes a roundup of houses designed to showcase their owners' beloved cars. Read more View the full article

Standard Architecture will speak to Dezeen in this Screentime conversation sponsored by Enscape as part of Virtual Design Festival. Watch it here live from 5:00 pm UK time. Read more View the full article

VDF products fair: The Yellow Untitled is a new rug collection designed by Sandra Keja Planken for Noun Amsterdam that aims to brighten interiors "like the morning sun". Read more View the full article

VDF products fair: Noun Amsterdam's colourful wall rugs called The Lips are designed by Sandra Keja Planken to add "depth, vibrancy and boldness" to interior spaces. Read more View the full article

Board-marked concrete and warm wood are contrasted in this synagogue in Asunción, Paraguay, which has been renovated by local studio Equipo de Arquitectura. Read more View the full article

VDF products fair: woven leather straps form the seat of the MT Bench, which Japanese designer Shinsaku Miyamoto has created for Ritzwell. Read more View the full article

Weston Williamson + Partners has outlined its plans for a social-distancing workplace, with transparent screens around desks, hands-free doors and a barista, to allow employees to safely return to its office following the coronavirus lockdown. Read more View the full article