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Boston architect Eric Höweler has helped local doctors develop patient isolation hoods – a new type of device that could save the lives of healthcare workers and "impact things worldwide" in the fight against coronavirus. Read more View the full article

Concrete columns draped in greenery, steel beams filled with books and a small pool feature in this apartment in Quito, Ecuador that local architect Aquiles Jarrín has overhauled for a family of three and their dog. Read more View the full article

With less than two weeks to enter Dezeen Awards, Swedish-Chinese architect Alex Mok says that she'll be looking for spaces that surprise and for the use of new materials. Read more View the full article

London designers Campaign have created an installation in New York for fashion brand Dunhill, which features the outlines of a Georgian house picked out in aluminium frames. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

A faux leather top made from pig's blood and shoes made from repurposed lederhosen are among 15 contemporary Austrian accessories and fashion designs being shown at VDF's products fair by the Austrianfashion.net initiative. Read more View the full article

Mexican studio FRENTEarquitectura have completed a house in México City where the upper storey overhangs a long strip of garden. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Scottish studio Groves-Raines Architects have completed a composting shed in Edinburgh made of the bars normally used to reinforce concrete. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

French designer Noé Duchaufour-Lawrance has completed the interior of a gallery in Paris featuring a strip of white Corian wrapped around the space. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

London designer Giles Miller has created a pop-up shop for Stella McCartney, spelling out the fashion designer’s name in two metre-high cardboard lettering. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Here’s another project using old carpets (see our earlier post on a chair made of rolled-up carpet), this time handbags by Spanish initiative Maam Project, manufactured by prisoners. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Scroll down for all the latest from Dezeenjobs including positions with OMA in Rotterdam, Tom Dixon in London and MAD in Beijing, plus this is the last chance to apply to work with United Designers, Mathmos and more… (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This narrow staircase with alternating steps is one of a pair installed by French studio MAAJ Architectes in a Parisian apartment. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This multi-purpose sports hall by Parisian studio AP 5 Architects has shutters in the facade to open the lower part of the building. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Cologne 2011: French designer Eléonore Nalet presented this chair with long cushions woven through its metal frame at imm cologne in Germany last month. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

San Francisco designers fuseproject have designed packaging and a grating tool for hardened pure cacao, which is farmed among the natural ecosystem of the Costa Rican rainforest. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

London designer Oscar Diaz will present a two-in-one candle holder at Maison&Objet in Paris this weekend. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

A glistening aluminium canopy undulates above the heads of waiting passengers at a bus station in Slough, England. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

The raised corner of this house in Hiroshima by Japanese architects Suppose Design Office allows light to creep into the interior. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Cologne 2012: these oversized lamps by French studio Numéro 111 for design brand Ligne Roset are illuminated by strips of LEDs around the back of the shade. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen promotion: entries are now being accepted for this year’s A’ Design Award. Here are some of the winning projects from last year, including this Belgian water tower converted into a residence by Mauro Brigham. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Milan 2012: in Milan earlier this month Zaha Hadid paid a surprise visit to Dezeen Studio at MOST to chat to us about her Secret Garden installation, some of the other projects she has in the pipeline and her impression of this year’s furniture fair. (more…) View the full article

Dezeen promotion: an exhibition of design from Britain curated by London collective Bricolage Project (above) opens at the Centre Commercial in Paris on Friday. (more…) View the full article

This time last year we featured projects constructed from all kinds of unusual materials, including a car made of cartilage that generates its own fuel from algae, pencils created from workshop dust and a table made from polystyrene steamed inside fabric moulds. Balsa wood was the material graduate Ki Hyun Kim used to construct a dining chair that weighs just 1.3 kilograms and concrete proved popular as usual in our stories about some very heavy vases and a house that resembles a half-submerged submarine. Meanwhile, toilets became a talking point after we featured some tree-mounted urinals at a music festival, leading us to count down our top ten stories about loos.…

This milking stool by Danish designer Rasmus B. Fex has interlocking legs like a puzzle. (more…) View the full article

French architect Patrice Taravella and engineer Terry de Waal have completed a snaking tunnel to create the ideal conditions for growing lilies on a farm in the Western Cape of South Africa. (more…) View the full article