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We continue our high-tech architecture series by looking at Norman Foster, the architect of high-tech highlights for five decades including Reliance Controls in the 1960s, the Sainsbury Centre in the 1970s, HSBC in the 1980s, Stanstead Airport in the 1990s and the Gherkin in the 2000s. Read more View the full article

Nature-themed artworks and bespoke furnishings feature throughout Le Coucou, a design-focused ski hotel completed by Pierre Yovanovitch. Read more View the full article

Unfinished concrete surfaces and wire-fencing balustrades give an industrial aesthetic to the interiors of this apartment building in Lausanne, Switzerland, by local studio Personeni Raffaele Schärer Architects (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

The British Royal Mint has commemorated professor Stephen Hawking in a new 50p coin, which references the late physicist's pioneering work on black holes. Read more

London Design Festival: Dutch designer Marcel Wanders spoke to Dezeen about a new clock inspired by a London landmark earlier today at the Moooi showroom in west London (+ audio + movie). (more…) View the full article

Estúdio Casa G has completed a residence in the Brazilian rainforest, creating a home within the concrete shell of an existing structure and building a new pavilion for social spaces. Read more View the full article

Leading designers have supported the decision to move Salone del Mobile from April to June due to the coronavirus outbreak, although some say the event should be cancelled for environmental reasons and others feel the Milan experience needs an overhaul. Read more View the full article

This week we've hand-picked five of the most exciting architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs, including positions at architecture studios Aedas and Haworth Tompkins. Read more View the full article

Daily coronavirus briefing: today's architecture and design coronavirus briefing includes socially distanced cycle lanes, portable sanitation kits and warnings from Italy. Read more View the full article

In this movie, Dezeen Awards jury chair Michel Rojkind explains why Matthew Mazzotta's modest, retractable The Storefront Theater beat projects by leading international firms to be crowned Architecture Project of the Year 2018. Read more

Designer and programmer Cyril Diagne has created an augmented reality tool that can capture images of real-world objects and add them to a computer program in a few seconds. Read more View the full article

The use of facial recognition in Hong Kong and London's King's Cross demonstrates the need to control access to the technology in the same way other dangerous items are regulated, says Owen Hopkins. Read more

This small rusty cabin designed by Oslo architects Manthey Kula provides public toilets along one of Norway’s tourist routes. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen promotion: the Crea collection by Spanish lighting brand Vibia is made up of pendant, ceiling and wall lights that can be customised by designers to suit different spaces. Read more View the full article

Quebec studio Atelier Pierre Thibault's portfolio is filled with remote getaways around Canada. Here are five houses the firm has designed that make the most of their wooded settings. Read more

BIG's collaboration with Heatherwick Studio on Google's new headquarters, 74 designs for another new bridge across London's River Thames and an installation that mimics the northern lights feature in Dezeen Mail issue 242. Click through for all the latest news, jobs and reader comments from Dezeen. Read Dezeen Mail issue 242 | Subscribe to Dezeen Mail View the full article

German designer Valentin Loellmann used hazel branches to create the knobbly legs of these benches, tables and stools. (more…) 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

Poorly positioned Christmas decorations on a sign for the Holland Tunnel, connecting New Jersey and New York, have caused enough upset for over 1,300 people to sign a petition to change them. Read more

A bar made out of old IKEA mattresses has won the architecture prize at Chart 2019, ahead of structures built from latex, salt, paper and jute fabric. Read more

Dezeen promotion: Italian brand Flexform has launched its first outdoor furniture collection designed with the help of architect Antonio Citterio. Read more View the full article

This time last year architects and designers around the world were rallying to come up with creative ways to raise money for Japan, following the devastating earthquake and tsunami that had just struck Sendai. Designs included a video appeal, a variety of posters and images for sale and instructions for making origami cranes. Elsewhere, industrial designer Yves Behar unveiled a mobile phone with staggered square buttons, while architects BIG won a competition to design some prefabricated wooden housing in Finland and a sculptural low-energy light bulb was named design of the year by the Design Museum in London. We featured some offices inside pulped paper caves, as we…

The organisation behind New York's High Line elevated park has created an online forum that offers advice for those embarking on similar infrastructure reuse projects. Read more View the full article

Michael Anastassiades worked with Gebrüder Thonet Vienna to develop this doodle-like lounge chair using the Austrian company's traditional material palette of steam-bent wood and woven cane. Read more

Chicago Architecture Biennial 2015: US firm Aranda\Lasch has unveiled plans for an art park for a Chinese-Indonesian philanthropist, proposed on terraced rice paddies in the Bali countryside (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article