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Hospitals "desperately need designers" to improve everything from the way they tackle coronavirus to the layout of operating theatres and the design of medical charts, according to a senior US doctor. Read more View the full article

Architecture firm Scott Brownrigg has developed a concept for a pod with a transparent divider to allow people to meet vulnerable relatives safely, plus today's other design-related coronavirus news. Read more View the full article

Plex'eat is a protective plexiglass face shields designed by Christophe Gernigon that would dangle over diners in restaurants so they share a table after the peak of the coronavirus pandemic. Read more View the full article

Architecture studio Atelier Vens Vanbelle has built a Corten steel guesthouse with a watchtower in Uitbergen, Belgium, for a client in the film business. Read more View the full article

Swedish architects and designers Claseeon Koivisto Rune will launch a task light made entirely of paper in Milan next week. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

South Korean product designer Ramei Keum has designed a leaning sofa called Pisa. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Architectural photographer Roland Halbe has sent us his photos of three health centres in Madrid by Spanish architects Estudio Entresitio, all with identical floor plans but executed in different materials. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Scroll on for all the latest from our recruitment site Dezeenjobs, including positions at OMA in Rotterdam and Marcel Wanders in Amsterdam, plus the last chance to apply for roles at Tom Dixon, Foster + Partners, MAD and more… (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Milan 2011: in our second movie filmed at Ventura Lambrate in Milan for our new video website Dezeen Screen, British designer Benjamin Hubert talks about his new Pod Chair, a pressed-felt “privacy” chair created for Dutch brand De Vorm. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Gerrman architects Kada Wittfeld Architektur have completed this metal-bodied museum in Glauburg, Germany, that cantilevers out towards a historic Celtic burial mound. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

UK designer Rupert McKelvie has assembled a table using thousands of pieces from jigsaw puzzles. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Kingston University graduate Hannah Niskanen-Benady presented this series of side tables that incorporate knitted containers at graduate show New Designers in London over the weekend. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Wire: Will Alsop and Scott Lawrie are to leave architects RMJM and set up a new design studio in London. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Happy Halloween Dezeen readers! We’ve only got one left of The Last Laugh by Mr Jones Watches – check it out on Dezeen Watch Store before it’s too late… </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This week on Dezeen our most popular story was the redesign of McDonald’s interiors in France by Patrick Norguet, which encouraged readers to suggest that they redesign their food next, while a mountain lodge that you can ski over by Fantastic Norway also attracted plenty of attention. The week’s more bizarre offerings included a proposal for a tower built by flying robots and a walkway that looks like a rollercoaster, while a house in Hiroshima by Suppose Design Office provoked discussion on the introverted tendency of Japanese houses to block out the surrounding neighbourhood. We’ve announced more designers and brands taking part in our Christmas shop The Temporium …

American architects Skidmore, Owings & Merrill have won a competition to design a skyscraper for China with proposals that incoprorate a 30-storey-high opening window. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

One of Anthony Gormley‘s sculptures appears to guard the entrance to the British artist’s new galvanised steel workshop, designed by London architects Carmody Groarke. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Finnish studio Feathr has launched its first wallpaper collection with designs by artists that specialise in disciplines such as surfwear design and body art. (more…) View the full article

Clerkenwell Design Week 2012: a tiny mobile theatre with chimneys made from coal scuttles played host to audiences of up to six during Clerkenwell Design Week in London last week. (more…) View the full article

French architect Jean Nouvel has renovated a nineteenth century brewery in Barcelona to make way for restaurants, bars, a bakery and a museum. (more…) View the full article

Industrial design graduate Lisa Frode has created a desk with a fabric cover, inspired by the way aeroplane cabins can be divided with curtains to create different rooms during the flight. (more…) View the full article

Industrial designer Bill Moggridge, who created the first laptop computer, co-founded global design company IDEO and more recently was director of the Cooper-Hewitt museum in New York, has died aged 69. (more…) View the full article

This rooftop house extension by Californian architects SFOSL has a metal bridge at its entrance and a facade that folds open. (more…) View the full article

Photographer Iwan Baan’s images of post-Sandy New York (above) lead this week’s issue of Dezeen Mail, which also features all the latest news, jobs, competitions and reader comments from Dezeen. Read Dezeen Mail issue 126 | Subscribe to Dezeen Mail View the full article

Design Miami: French designer Noé Duchaufour-Lawrance has launched a white variation of his leaf-like LED lighting, which fades and flickers like dappled light coming through trees. (more…) View the full article