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Today's round up of design-related coronavirus stories includes a delay in artist Christo's plans to wrap a Paris landmark in fabric and an invention to open doors with your shoe. Read more View the full article

Milan 2011: this chair made from polyurethane film is part of a collection of transparent furniture by Japanese designers Nendo, on show in Milan this week. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Our job of the week on Dezeen Jobs is for a design manager at contemporary hotel group The Hoxton's east London location (pictured). Visit the ad for full details or browse other architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs. 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

British luxury carmaker Aston Martin has made its first foray into nautical design with a powerboat (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Home rentals website Airbnb has launched its own design studio, creating a house of the future for a Tokyo exhibition as its first project (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

X marks the sport where you hang your hat and coat with these hooks that also function as coat hangers. (more…) </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

Designers Reed and Delphine Krakoff have created a series of "archetypical" seats in grey felt for British brand Established & Sons. (more...) View the full article

Lisbon architecture office Cais has renovated and extended an outdated house in the city, preserving its existing facade and creating an open-plan interior that extends into a new terraced garden at the rear (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

MAS Architecture Studio favoured passive ventilation over high-tech solutions in this installation for Dubai Design Week, which reimagines Emirati wind towers using 480 layers of recycled cardboard. Read more View the full article

Passaro Edizioni has designed a sustainable toy called Paesaggio con figure, which it is presenting for the VDF x Ventura Projects collaboration. Read more View the full article

New renderings have been released for British designer Thomas Heatherwick's first residential project in the US: two towers that straddle New York's High Line park with barrel-shaped windows. Read more

Swathes of lace and satin textiles were tied into stuffed bundles and bows to create Japanese fashion house Comme des Garçons' Autumn Winter 2015 collection shown at Paris Fashion Week. (more…)

London Design Festival 2015: designers including Neville Brody, Morag Myerscough and Malcolm Garrett have reinterpreted the Calvert and Kinneir-designed British road sign for an exhibition at London's Design Museum (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Huge photographic prints conjure the illusion of translucent marble over the glass walls of this music library at Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen, Germany (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Designer Sebastian Errazuriz has created an online exhibition that allows collectors to preview artworks in their home using augmented reality tools during the coronavirus pandemic. Read more View the full article

NASA has named Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin, Elon Musk's SpaceX and Alabama-based Dynetics as the three teams that will develop vehicles for its planned moon landing in 2024. Read more View the full article

This house designed by Canadian studio MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple for a site on the Nova Scotia coast comprises a cluster of Corten-clad buildings that are influenced by traditional fishing huts. Read more

News: relaxing planning restrictions on the green belt would destroy London's vitality "even more surely than it would despoil the countryside," architect Richard Rogers has warned. (more...) View the full article

Every floor of this Tokyo house by Japanese studio Keiji Ashizawa Design opens onto a garden or terrace. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Members of the Royal Institute of British Architects, including a past president, have signed a letter calling for UK prime minister Boris Johnson's honourable fellowship to be taken away. Read more

UK prime minister Theresa May highlighted the importance of creativity to the nation on a day when over 100 leading artists claimed government policies were putting the creative industries at risk. Read more View the full article

Beijing Design Week 2011: Beijing architect Naihan Li presented crates that unfold to become a collection of furniture at a pop-up disco lounge for Beijing Design Week. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

American artist Doug Wheeler has transformed a gallery at the Solomon R Guggenheim Museum in New York into an all-white room designed to evoke the sensation of vast infinite space. Read more View the full article