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Graduates consistently offer some of the most forward-thinking designs, and 2019 didn't disappoint. To continue our review of the year, we picked 10 of the most innovative student projects, from a "chestfeeding" kit to a masturbation suit. Read more View the full article

AIRLAB has completed an angular, mesh-covered pavilion at Singapore's Gardens by the Bay, which has a structure made entirely from 3D-printed stainless steel components. Read more View the full article

Italian architect and co-founder of radical design collective Superstudio, Adolfo Natalini, has passed away at the age of 78. Read more View the full article

Airbus has revealed a working model of its MAVERIC aircraft, which has a "blended wing body" design that could reduce fuel consumption by up to 20 per cent. Read more View the full article

Ministry of Design has created completely white interiors for this co-living space, which occupies a traditional shophouse in Singapore. Read more View the full article

In this week's comments update, readers are debating how homes will change after the coronavirus pandemic ends and are divided over the Galleria department store in South Korea. Read more View the full article

A two-bed intensive care unit within a shipping container, designed by Italian architects Carlo Ratti and Italo Rota, has been built at a hospital in Turin and is being used to treat patients fighting the coronavirus. Read more View the full article

Pioneering architect James Wines laments the predominance of digitally created forms in architecture and calls for more buildings that "reach out to people" in the first of a series of talks VDF is broadcasting in partnership with Friedman Benda. Read more View the full article

London's Museum of the Home has launched a UK-wide project that calls for members of the public to submit photos and personal accounts of their living experience during the coronavirus pandemic. Read more View the full article

Royal College of Art student Thomas Gossner has rethought the design of public, space-saving fold-out chairs, creating a swing-like seat made from a single sheet of thermoplastic. Read more View the full article

We’ve teamed up with Danish architects BIG to give away five DVDs of My Playground, a film documenting the navigation of urban spaces and some of BIG’s iconic buildings by teams of free runners from around the world. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

An extension to the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts by London architect Rick Mather has opened to the public in Richmond, Virginia, USA. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen movie: in the first of five movies for the Design Museum in association with Peroni Nastro Azzurro, designers Pierro Lissoni, James Irvine and Claudio Silvestrin discuss the workings of the Italian design industry at a talk in London. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Krystian Kowalski of Polish design collective Kompott presented a foldable chair that also doubles up as a stool at the Royal College of Art graduate show in London last month. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Japanese architect Shunichiro Ninomiy used an atrium and small pool of water to admit light indirectly to the ground floor of this east-facing home in Osaka, Japan. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Here are some photographs by Edmund Sumner of the completed Balancing Barn holiday home in Suffolk, UK, by MVRDV and Mole Architects, including a swing under the 15 metre cantilever. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Tokyo firm Naruse Inokuma Architects created these pads of page markers from the waste wood produced during the construction of wooden houses. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen promotion: Thailand International Furniture Fair 2011 takes place 16-20 March 2011 in Bangkok. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

The drawers of this children’s dresser designed by Seattle product designer Peter Bristol are shaped to match their contents. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

German studio D’art have covered a wall in white paper boxes and spotty black lettering for the German Pulp and Paper Association at a Düsseldorf trade fair. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Ceiling-high stacks of reclaimed roof tiles form walls inside this former slaughterhouse in Madrid by Spanish architect Arturo Franco. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Screen: in this movie filmed at DMY Berlin, Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs chaired a panel discussion with editors and authors of Open Design Now: Why Design Cannot Remain Exclusive. Watch the movie » </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

News: the Glasgow School of Art has named five architects in the running to lead the restoration of the Mackintosh Building, which was devastated by fire last May. (more…) View the full article

The top-floor living room of this Seattle house projects across the garden in a twisted cantilever. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Wire: architecture critic Jay Merrick has praised the £22 million extension of Cardiff’s Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama by BFLS Architects, explaining that the spaces perform functionally as well as succeeding in “generating an atmosphere that can only be described as happening.” (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article