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South Korean designer Bae Se Hwa steam bent hundreds of slender walnut slices to create the sinuous chairs, benches and desks that feature in this exhibition at New York gallery R & Company. Read more

A United Nations report has found that Apple's Siri, Amazon's Alexa, and other female-voiced digital assistants "reinforce commonly held gender biases". Read more

A wooden hillside cabin on the island of Stokkøya, Norway, by Kappland Arkitekter is spread over multiple levels expansive views out to the surrounding countryside. Read more

Yalin Architectural Design made shutters from the wooden planks used for the board-formed concrete frame of Goat House, a holiday house in a small farming village in Turkey. Read more

Architects will join leading academics and campaigners to consider how the architecture industry should respond to a climate emergency at Architecture Foundation's upcoming summit. Read more

Donald Trump's head and hands adorn this IUD, which was created as a commentary on the US president's regulations of women's access to birth control services. Read more

Architecture practice Conran and Partners has renovated the ground floor lobby of a central London office to create a shared space that "blurs the edges between work and play". Read more

More than 2,000 dimmable light bulbs and a selfie-friendly fabric fill the grand interior of this cocktail bar on Moscow's Red Square in Russia. Read more View the full article

Architecture studio NOARQ has extended a stone villa in Portugal with a bright red cabin perched on thick blocks of granite above the entrance. Read more View the full article

New York interior designer Sasha Bikoff has designed furniture that takes cues from looks in Versace's old fashion campaigns for an exhibition in Miami. Read more View the full article

Canadian studio La Firme has turned a former industrial space in a Montreal heritage building into a contemporary home. Read more View the full article

Canadian studio DesignAgency incorporated "soft and graceful flourishes" into NeueHouse's latest co-working location that occupies a full floor in a 1890s structure in Downtown Los Angeles. Read more View the full article

Daily coronavirus briefing: today Dezeen is launching a new daily briefing, rounding up news about the coronavirus pandemic that is relevant to the global architecture and design community. Read our first briefing below and keep up to date with our coronavirus coverage here. Read more View the full article

In this exclusive movie premiere screened as part of VDF's collaboration with MAAT, Florian Idenburg and Jing Liu of SO-IL explain 12 temporary architecture projects that feature in an exhibition at the Lisbon museum. Read more View the full article

London-based designer Paul Cocksedge's Here Comes the Sun blanket would allow people to "socialise safely and confidently" outdoors once Covid-19 lockdown restrictions have been lifted. Read more View the full article

Clerkenwell Design Week, London Design Fair and the London Design Biennial have all cancelled their 2020 events as coronavirus impacts design shows due to take place in the second half of the year. Read more View the full article

VDF products fair: Kollar is a leather choker by Wilfried Mayer, which is designed to look like a high mandarin shirt collar complete with a mother-of-pearl button on the front. Read more View the full article

British designer Karen Ryan has assembled objects and furniture found in American thrift stores and warehouses to make five new compositions. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

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Tel Aviv studio Derman Verbakel Architecture have installed a series of archways and mobile furniture between the city and the sea in Bat Yam, Israel. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

London firm Studio 54 Architecture have completed a glazed entrance with grey brick steps connecting the ground floor and garden of this London terraced house. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Photographer José Campos has sent us some images of a social centre in Brufa, Portugal, by Portuguese studio Imago. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

The New Amsterdam Pavilion by Dutch architects UNStudio has opened to the public in New York’s Battery Park. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

A sloping corridor coils around the inside of a house in Osaka to connect three staggered storeys. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Russian architects Arseniy Borisenko and Peter Zaytsev have completed an outdoor kitchen for a yacht captain that resembles the broken-up hull of a boat. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article