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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

VDF products fair: SuperTube is a space-saving drainage system designed by Swiss brand Geberit to maximise floor area and ceiling heights in high-rise buildings. Read more View the full article

Steven Holl Architects have completed a building conceived as a “horizontal skyscraper”, supported over a landscaped garden in Shenzhen, China. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

London designer Oscar Diaz will present a shopping bag made from canvas straps in Milan next week. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Russian design studio Decolieu have completed the renovation of an apartment in Moscow by adding a low curved ceiling made of lime and wax. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Danish firm Henning Larsen Architects have won a competition to design an aquarium in Batumi, Georgia, resembling a cluster of pebbles. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Photographer Julien Lanoo has sent us his photos of this wooden folly with mirrored shutters in the mountains of southern Germany by Berlin studio Baumhauer. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dutch Design Week 2010: design studio Moon/En/Co curated a pop-up exhibition restaurant for the fifth consecutive year during Dutch Design Week last month, featuring pieces by designers including Kiki van Eijk and Maarten Baas. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

London firm Universal Design Studio have completed the interior of a shop on London’s New Bond Street for fashion brand Mulberry. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

These duck-shaped funnels for transferring liquids from one container to another are by London designer Roger Arquer. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Barcelona architect Anna Noguera has converted a sixteenth-century house in Girona into two contemporary holiday apartments. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Chinese architects Tsutsumi and Associates have completed this dance studio in central Beijing where the mirrored walls are covered in tiny graduated dots to create the illusion of a mist hanging in the air. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Designer Rafael de Cárdenas of New York created the interior of this Cape Town menswear store Unknown Union with shelving in clashing colours that fade into each other. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Zaha Hadid Architects have completed the Riverside Museum in Glasgow with a zig-zagging, zinc-clad roof. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Visitors can clamber inside a stretchy web of netting installed by For Use/Numen at Belgian gallery Z33 this summer. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Car brand BMW will present two sustainable concept cars under their new BMW i sub-brand at the Frankfurt Motor Show later this month. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Competition: we’ve teamed up with research and design company Praud to give readers the chance to win one of five T-shirts featuring plans of the world’s most influential cities. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

These polished marble blocks by Milanese designer Emanuele Pizzolorusso can be arranged on your desk to make miniature monuments. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

The Temporium: you can get 15% off Cristian Zuzunaga‘s new series of digitally printed scarves at our Christmas shop The Temporium, open until Christmas Eve in London. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Screen: in this second of four interviews with some of the designers that Dezeen Watch Store are taking to Interiors UK in Birmingham from 22 January, David Ericsson of Hong Kong watch brand VOID talks about his collection. Watch the movie » Dezeen Watch Store and friends will be at stand G31 in the Design Village at Interiors UK, which takes place at the NEC Centre in Birmingham from 22-25 January featuring furniture, lighting, flooring, soft furnishings and accessories from over 600 exhibitors. Register to attend here. </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

The stripped concrete skeletons of three former factories in A Coruña await conversion into public buildings by Spanish architects Díaz&Díaz. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This desk by Dutch designer Mieke Meijer is the first in a range of furniture based on images by German artists Bernd and Hilla Becher, known for their series of photographs that documented types of industrial structures like pylons, gas tanks and water towers. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This glass house by Belgian architects Govaert & Vanhoutte has a 50-metre-long wall at the back and an underground swimming pool at the front. (more…) View the full article

Dezeen archive: we’ve noticed a lot of parasitic architecture so here’s a selection of buildings on Dezeen that sit, lean or cling on to others. See all the stories » See all our archive stories » View the full article

Ukrainian designer Vasiliy Butenko has made a series of pendant lamps by wrapping cotton rope around plastic bottles. (more…) View the full article