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Daily coronavirus briefing: today's architecture and design coronavirus briefing includes AirAsia's PPE cabin crew uniforms, a "bubble shield" and the UN's coronavirus posters. Read more View the full article

This time last year Zaha Hadid Architects completed a south London school with a running track through the middle, which went on to win this year’s Stirling Prize. Konstantin Grcic was announced as the recipient of the 2010 Designer of the Year Award at Design Miami and the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (CABE) was forced to close due to funding cuts. Universal Design Studio designed a pleated facade for an H&M store in Seoul, while one of our readers called the 8 House residential complex by BIG “a seductive three dimensional diagram designed to be inhabited by robots.” Tokujin Yoshioka created a see-through mobile phone, Nemawor…

Mountain Bar and Restaurant in Guizhou Province, China by ZJJZ Atelier has sliding glass doors and a screen of wooden louvres that can be folded back. Read more

Californian architects amphibianArc have designed a shape-shifting “transformer building” for a Chinese machinery company, with a facade that flaps like the wings of a huge insect (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

Swedish car brand Volvo is launching a prototype cycling helmet that offers two-way communication between the wearer and nearby drivers to help prevent accidents (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

Most Loved: London designer Sebastian Wrong reflects on living with the distinctive sound made by his 2007 Font Clock for Established & Sons in the latest movie in our exclusive video series. (more…) View the full article

Orla Lawn introduces Spelk, a series of smooth and splintered architectural surfaces, as part of VDF's collaboration with Ventura Projects. Read more View the full article

Post offices and stacked parcels influenced the MDF shapes that dotted the runway for London fashion brand Roksanda's Spring Summer 2016 show, which took place at a Grade-II listed sports hall in Marylebone (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Dezeen promotion: Danish acoustic panel manufacturer Troldtekt is inviting architects and designers to submit projects featuring innovative uses of wood wool panels for the chance to win €5,000 (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

A Kickstarter campaign is raising money to rerelease a set of influential manuals that offer precise guides to designing for human comfort. Read more View the full article

Dezeen Wire: The latest RIBA Future Trends Survey shows that the private housing sector is benefiting from all-time low interest rates but overall confidence about future workloads remains low. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Architect Dong-Ping Wong will speak to Dezeen in a live Screentime conversation sponsored by Enscape as part of Virtual Design Festival. Interview will begin at 2pm UK time. Read more View the full article

Dezeen in Israel: here are some images of the recently opened new wing at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, which has a dramatically faceted atrium piercing its centre. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Week two of Virtual Design Festival features an architecture photography festival, a celebration of Earth Day, interviews with SO-IL and Ron Arad and a live music performance by Beatie Wolfe. Here's what's coming up this week. Read more View the full article

Dutch Design Week 2011: components for this furniture by Rotterdam designers Minale-Maeda can be downloaded, 3D-printed and assembled locally. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Three-dimensional oak panelling covers the walls, ceiling and counter of this Aesop store interior in Oslo, designed by Norwegian architecture firm Snøhetta (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Architect Arthur Mamou-Mani will give Dezeen readers a virtual reality tour of his Catharsis temple, created for this year's Burning Man festival, on VDF today. Tune in from 4:00pm UK time. Read more View the full article

The rippled timber core of this reindeer observation pavilion by architects Snøhetta mirrors the curves of the surrounding Dovre Mountains in Norway. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This school in Cambodia by Finish architects Rudanko + Kankkunen was built by the local community from hand-dried blocks of the surrounding soil. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

El Hadi Jazairy and Rania Ghosn of collaborative architecture practice Design Earth discuss how to engage with the climate emergency in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic in this interview with architecture writer Carson Chan, which forms part of our Virtual Design Festival collaboration with The World Around for Earth Day. Read more View the full article

A black steel-framed glass house by architecture studio Bence Mulcahy extends a 19th-century villa in Mount Stuart, Tasmania. Read more View the full article

This idyllic pine house by the sea outside Stockholm has a glass-fronted lookout loft on its roof. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Robin Standefer and Stephen Alesch, the husband-and-wife team behind design firm Roman and Williams, have created a lofty two-storey emporium in Manhattan's Soho district. Read more View the full article

Graduate shows 2016: Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design graduate Liron Gino has designed a set of jewellery-like devices that allow deaf and hearing-impaired people to experience music through vibration (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

Dezeen Screen: in this movie that we filmed at Qubique 2011, Philipp Mainzer, founder of German furniture brand E15, talks about the furniture and accessories the company showed during the Berlin design fair. Watch the movie » </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article