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Robots made by Japanese automaker Toyota will be deployed across the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic sites to provide assistance to workers and attendees at the Games next year. Read more

With Coachella music festival kicking off last weekend, Dezeen has picked out five of the bright and wonderful installations filling the Californian desert site. Read more

Our new Pinterest board is dedicated to sustainable design, including an eco-friendly coffin that uses fungus to biodegrade the body and MIT's self-growing sandbars, islands and beaches. Follow Dezeen on Pinterest ›

New York-based design studio Asthetíque has completed a restaurant in Moscow called The Y that draws on the stylised sets of films directed by Wes Anderson. Read more

There are 259 interior design projects on the longlist for Dezeen Awards 2019, including a pink vegan pizza place, a bunker-like apartment and a library in an old locomotive shed. Read more

Hector Esrawe's design studio has developed furniture for an experimental housing project in Hidalgo, Mexico, but the designs will later be used to furnish social housing all over the country. Read more

An ironwork bandstand in south London where David Bowie organised and performed at a festival 50 years ago has been given Grade II-listed status. Read more

Wooden cladding and large stretches of glass form the facades of this residence by CCY Architects, which is angled downward to follow the gentle slope of the terrain. Read more

Are drones becoming a threat to society? Dezeen's Tom Ravenscroft and Calum Lindsay will be taking to Twitter on Thursday 3 October at 4pm UK time to discuss the impact of drones on cities and city design. Join in using the hashtag #dezeenchat. Read more

US designer Brad Bartlett used an algorithm to give each copy of design school the ArtCenter's prospectus a different cover, playing on the modernist graphics of alumnus Alvin Lustig. Read more

Dutch designer Richard Hutten clashed with the CEO of the Ellen MacArthur Foundation at the Dezeen Day conference last week, with the two speakers disagreeing over the role of plastic in the circular economy. Read more View the full article

From a trio of mirrors depicting Dubai's arid landscape to a set of sand-cast chairs by female artisans in Sharjah, Dezeen's Natashah Hitti has picked seven designs from Downtown Editions 2019 that celebrate regional traits. Read more View the full article

Furniture by designers including Joyce Wang and Mario Tsai is on show at this Shanghai exhibition organised by contemporary art and design platform The Artling. Read more View the full article

Ángel Verdasco Arquitectos used a lattice of aluminium beams to cover the ceramic tiled facade of an education centre built over an abandoned market in Melilla. Read more View the full article

NC Design & Architecture has applied an array of naturally flawed materials throughout this Hong Kong apartment, which has been designed in accordance with the Japanese philosophy of wabi-sabi. Read more View the full article

London design studio Brinkworth has built an elevated skateboarding bowl inside this Supreme store in San Francisco that reverberates sounds "like a huge speaker". Read more View the full article

The founder of architecture firm Assembledge+ has completed a house for himself in Los Angeles featuring walls that seem to completely disappear to open up to a garden. Read more View the full article

Many brands are altering their logos to promote social distancing and creating adverts to encourage staying at home during the coronavirus pandemic. Read more View the full article

A pack of mischievous rats cause chaos in this installation by graffiti artist Banksy who, like many, is working from home during the coronavirus lockdown. Read more View the full article

Stockholm studio Halleroed has paired carpet floors, dropped ceilings and wood panelling for a New York office evocative of a David Lynch movie. Read more View the full article

American firm Feldman Architecture has inserted a glass pavilion between two white stucco volumes to form this residence in San Jose, California. Read more View the full article

Lots of new jobs on our recruitment site Dezeenjobs this week, including positions with Vitra in Switzerland, UXUS in the Netherlands and MAD in China. This is also the last chance to apply for jobs with David Chipperfield Architects, Paul Cocksedge Studio and more… (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Lots of new jobs on our recruitment site Dezeenjobs this week, including positions with Danish architects Schmidt Hammer Lassen, David Gill Galleries and London designer Sebastian Bergne, plus this is the last chance to apply to work with Fuseproject, Linley, Steven Holl Architects and more… (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Vienna Design Week 2010: Vienna designers Mischer’Traxler made batteries from 700 used coffee capsules to power clocks installed in the window of Nespresso Austria during Vienna Design Week. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Design student Jiyoung Seo has created a little shelf with a flap of silicon to keep books in place. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article