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Transform your bare office into an Italian palazzo with this wallpaper by UK designers Young & Battaglia that lets you pretend to be surrounded by Renaissance-style angels carved in stone. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Convention centres that have been rapidly turned into facilities for coronavirus patients should not be called hospitals, says Doug King, the healthcare principal of Stantec, which has overseen the transformation of Chicago's McCormick Place. 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

Design studio Sides Core was charmed instead of challenged by the narrow floor plan of Land beauty salon in Osaka, Japan, which makes the most of its slender proportions. Read more View the full article

Creative studio Production Club has designed a personal protective suit for clubbing in the time of coronavirus, which includes features for phone integration and beverage and vape consumption. Read more View the full article

News: architects in the UK are being "cut to the bone" by bureaucracy says architect Steve Tompkins, whose firm won the RIBA Stirling Prize last night for the Liverpool Everyman Theatre (+ interview). (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

A towering sculpture by Kaws and a graphic polka-dot print floor feature within this Budapest bar, which interior architect Roman Plyus has designed to be instantly Instagrammable. Read more View the full article

Tokyo firm Schemata Architects has created an expandable changing room inside furniture made from shipping crates in this Paris boutique (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

The founders of Japanese creative studio Spread reveal how they use colour as the primary medium in their work and explain how their Life Stripe project seeks to find pattern in the everyday in this interview as part of our VDF x Alcova collaboration. Read more View the full article

This time last year the Groninger Museum re-opened in the Netherlands following a renovation including areas designed by Studio Job, Maarten Baas and Jaime Hayón. Also in the Netherlands, Marcel Wanders created a dinner service for Dutch airline KLM and Hella Jongerius presented 300 porcelain vases at the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam, where forty of them were damaged when a visitor to the museum became ill and fell over. Popular stories on Dezeen included a city with buildings that roll around on train tracks, a bright yellow nursery school outside Stockholm and conceptual packaging design for well-known supermarket products with stripped-back packaging.…

Dezeen Screen: in this interview from our series filmed at the OMA/Progress exhibition at the Barbican in London, OMA partner Iyad Alsaka talks about the firm’s work in Arab countries. Watch the movie » Above: photograph is by Blommers Schumm </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Designed in Hackney: this week’s first iconic project designed in the London borough of Hackney is Dirty House, a black-painted art studio and apartment building in Shoreditch with a brightly illuminated roof completed by architect David Adjaye in 2002. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

British designer Tom Price has made an enchanted grove of cherry trees out of plastic tubes and cable ties. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Architecture studio Muf has refurbished built open-air playground, featuring a geometrical climbing structure and a stage for performances. Read more View the full article

London design studio Yang:Ripol have remixed humble stationery items to create a pen that doubles as a pencil case and an eraser-capped pencil with its own brush. (more…) View the full article

Chinese studio Livil Architects has added a monolithic stone-clad canteen featuring cave-like interiors and an office building to a school in the town of Batang, Tibet. Read more View the full article

White-washed walls, Douglas fir joinery and creamy furnishings appear inside this east London home, which design studio Daytrip has renovated and expanded by excavating its basement. Read more View the full article

Recycled plastic and rubber make up this unisex trainer by Belgian brand Norm, which has set out to change the "nonsense" manufacturing process of a standard pair of shoes. Read more View the full article

Clancy Moore Architects has overhauled a Dublin warehouse, creating a light-filled home and studio for photographer Fionn McCann and his family. Read more View the full article

Brickwork walls, engraved tins ceilings and custom furniture feature in this boutique hotel in Tel Aviv. Read more

Dezeen Screen: in this third movie in our series of interviews with OMA co-founder Rem Koolhaas he talks about his new book Project Japan, Metabolism Talks… written in collaboration with curator Hans Ulrich Obrist. Watch the movie » </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Footwear designer Benjamin John Hall dispersed black dye onto his latest shoe designs with a series of physical processes – including smashing, spraying and squeezing – during a live event at London College of Fashion (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

Dezeen Space: for the last day of our micro-exhibition Dezeen Platform at Dezeen Space, Royal College of Art graduate Sarah Colson creates her own interpretation of an analogue photo booth. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

The upper storey of this forest house near Ottawa projects out from the landscape, creating a cantilevered living room offering views through the trees towards a nearby lake (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article