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Dublin firm Grafton Architects has designed a timber research centre for the University of Arkansas' architecture school, which will mark its first project in the US when complete. Read more View the full article

Japanese designer Tokujin Yoshioka has created a quick and easy face shield for healthcare workers fighting Covid-19, which attaches to the wearer's glasses. Read more View the full article

Slovenia's Centre of Creativity looks beyond the present in its Tunnel 29 exhibit, which is on show as part of the VDF x Ventura Projects collaboration. Read more View the full article

Vacuum-cleaner entrepreneur James Dyson has become the UK's wealthiest person despite spending £500 million on his company's scrapped electric car, which has been revealed for the first time. Read more View the full article

Hong Kong studio Davidclovers and Los Angeles artist C.E.B. Reas have created a shop front in Hong Kong where LED lighting pulses through patterns cut in the surface of two large Corian doors. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

The New York office of architecture studio Grimshaw has drawn up plans for a range of prefabricated coronavirus testing centres within shipping containers, named D-Tec. Read more View the full article

London office Levitt Bernstein have completed an energy centre for the University of Liverpool in the UK, clad in diamond-shaped aluminium scales. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Swiss studio Estragon have designed a camera for Swiss camera manufacturer ALPA. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

French designers Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec have designed a bathroom collection for German brand Axor. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This coat stand made from a ready-made 20 litre liquid container by London designer Peter Marigold is now in production with design brand Skitsch. Called 20 litre Coat Stand, the base can be weighted with water before a metal pole with branching hooks is attached by the screw-cap.Here’s some more information and photos of the [...]</img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Portuguese photographer Fernando Guerra has sent us his photographs of this museum for modern art in South Korea by architects Álvaro Siza, Carlos Castanheira and Jun Sung Kim. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

A collective of young architects and designers from AlArchitects of Prague have designed a range of jewellery made from recycled medical waste. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Here’s an update from our recruitment site Dezeenjobs, including positions with broadcasters Al Jazeera English, design brand Established & Sons and architects John McAslan + Partners. This is also the last chance to apply for roles with architects Foster + Partners, interior designers Blacksheep and more… (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Foster + Partners have completed a new shopping centre that combines high-end boutiques with independent local food and craft markets on the site of a historic city marketplace in Abu Dhabi. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Wire: German designer Dieter Rams writes about the design of Apple products for The Telegraph. Rams was head of design at German electronics brand Braun for over 30 years and Apple’s senior vice president of industrial design Jonathan Ive acknowledges Dieter Rams as his inspiration. Listen to our podcast interview with Dieter Rams » More about Dieter Rams on Dezeen » </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

London Design Festival 2011: divisive designs from the 1970s and 1980s are brought together in a retrospective exhibition entitled Postmodernism: Style and Subversion 1970-1990, which opened at the Victoria & Albert museum at the weekend. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Screen: in this movie filmed at 54 Rivington Street, London, Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs gives a tour of our activities at Dezeen Space. Watch the movie » </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

These four concrete apartment blocks by Spanish architects TASH were only completed last year, but they already look strangely abandoned in these photographs. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Stockholm 2012: French designer Inga Sempé presents a collection of LED pendant lamps for Swedish lighting brand Wästberg at Stockholm Furniture & Light Fair this week. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Shiny corrugated metal clads the two cascading stacks of apartments that make up this block in Paris by architect Stephane Maupin. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

New York architect Steven Holl has unveiled designs for a new institute for contemporary art at the Virginia Commonwealth University campus in Richmond. (more…) View the full article

Dutch architecture studio GAAGA designed an asymmetrical facade to make these two houses in Leiden look like only one. (more…) View the full article

French artist Etienne Gros has nipped and tucked blocks of soft foam to make squidgy nude sculptures. (more…) View the full article

Music: Hungarian director Tomek Ducki borrowed trends from 1980s eastern-European poster design to create this animated video for Bipolar Sunshine's single Daydreamer. (more…) View the full article

The floors and ceilings are covered in the same boards in this tiny Tokyo apartment renovated by Japanese architects TANK. (more…) View the full article