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Dezeen's Virtual Design Festival will be extended for an additional 10 days until 10 July due to demand from brands that want to participate. Read more View the full article

English architects Designscape have reversed the orientation of a country house in Bath by adding a prominent glazed entrance to its rear. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Beijing tech startup Zero Zero Robotics has launched a self-flying drone camera that uses facial recognition to record video while hovering in the air. (more…) View the full article

Design education "brainwashes" students into rejecting colour, pattern and ornament, according to Adam Nathaniel Furman, who said a group of London designers is finally overcoming bias against their use. Read more View the full article

Scroll on for all the latest from our recruitment site Dezeen Jobs, including positions with Aesop, and Bocci, plus this is the last chance to apply for roles with Tom Dixon, Matteo Thun & Partners and more… (more…) View the full article

Designers Michael Godmer and Mathieu Turgeon's home in Montreal features contemporary Danish pieces alongside oak, terracotta and marble. Read more View the full article

Dutch studio Happel Cornelisse Verhoeven has used red glazed bricks to make a new Antwerp fire station stand out. Read more View the full article

French designer Emmanuelle Moureaux has fitted out a Japanese spectacle shop with modular boxes in her signature colour blocks. (more...) View the full article

This office and residential building near Quito, Ecuador was designed by local studio Diez+Muller to enclose a staggered atrium for yoga classes and gardens. Read more View the full article

The original brick walls and a high timber-trussed ceiling are left exposed inside this former barn in Suffolk, which has been converted into a contemporary home by David Nossiter Architects. Read more View the full article

It's day five of Milan design week and this year's best exhibits at the Salone del Mobile furniture fair are emerging on our #milanogram2017 hashtag, including standout installations from the Euroluce lighting fair. Read more View the full article

California firm OPA has completed a house for the rolling desert landscape of Nevada, with slanted zinc-clad sections intended to appear as an extension of the terrain. Read more View the full article

Landscape architects EMF teamed up with architecture firm Ardèvol to remove over 400 buildings from a former holiday village in eastern Spain and transform the landscape into a series of meandering pathways and coastal viewpoints (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

As part of the VDF x Sight Unseen collaboration, we've rounded up some of the best furniture, homeware and lighting designs from the Offsite Online: Selects group show. Read more View the full article

This week's job of the week on Dezeen Jobs is a position for architects at London studio Grimshaw, whose ecological park in South Korea is pictured. Visit the ad for full details or browse other architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs. View the full article

This week we launched our Designed in Hackney initiative to highlight design talent in the east London borough of Hackney, one of the five host boroughs for the London 2012 Olympic Games and home to Dezeen’s offices. More details here. Our most popular story was an extension to a warehouse in Sheffield that looks like another building’s been added on top, which happens to be by Hackney architects Project Orange. An Amsterdam branch of Starbucks inside a former bank was our most-pinned story on Pinterest. Tom Dixon unveiled his plans for new show MOST in Milan next month, including Dezeen Studio powered by Jambox, just as Montreal designer Craig Alun Smith revealed his…

Dezeen Wire: the opening of the September 11 museum in New York, which is scheduled for September 2012, is under threat due to an ongoing dispute over unexpected costs – The Washington Post The museum is part of a memorial to the victims of the 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Centre being developed by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, who say that they are owed $156 million by mayor Michael Bloomberg’s National September 11 Memorial & Museum foundation. The row had been kept quiet over fears it could overshadow the 10th anniversary of the attacks but has now led to the suspension of construction contracts which could delay the completion of th…

The Temporium: illustrator Vic Lee‘s intricate prints documenting London streets are on show at our Christmas shop The Temporium, open until 24 December at 65 Monmouth Street, Seven Dials, Covent Garden, London WC2H 9DG. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

In his latest contribution to Virtual Design Festival, architecture video blogger Martin van der Linden reveals some of Tokyo's "invisible" waterways, which flow beneath the city's roads and pavements. Read more View the full article

Competition: we’ve teamed up with designers Beta Tank to give away five signed copies of their new book Taxing Art. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Coinciding with the OMA retrospective opening at the Barbican in London this week, here are some photos of the Maggie’s Centre for cancer care that the firm just completed in Glasgow. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Zaha Hadid Architects has revealed its winning design for the Urban Heritage Administration Centre, a preservation centre for a UNESCO-protected oasis in Diriyah, Saudi Arabia. Read more View the full article

London Design Festival: at the Sunbury Workshops Open Studios in east London next week designer Alex Hulme will present this calculator that has two programmable LCD buttons for storing useful figures. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Most Loved: Finnish designer Harri Koskinen explains how he came up with the idea of encasing a lightbulb in a glass box to create his iconic Block Lamp in the next movie in our exclusive video series. Read more View the full article

Readers are debating architect Alison Brooks' claims that coronavirus will lead to a "value shift" in housing design and sharing their thoughts on other top stories in this week's comments update. Read more View the full article