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Daily coronavirus briefing: today's architecture and design coronavirus briefing includes quarantine trains, engineering challenges for children and a fundraising auction for a Milan hospital. Read more View the full article

Prints by graphic designer Peter Saville adorn the garments and footwear in fashion brand Y-3's Spring Summer 2014 collection. (more...) View the full article

Home Farm is John Pawson's self-designed minimalist second home in the Cotswolds, England, featuring three kitchens but no clutter. Read more View the full article

Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Fujita Keisuke has made an installation that uses real-time tweets from people expressing suicidal thoughts to activate a motor-powered needle that scratches away at a monolithic block of carbon. Read more View the full article

The Link is a rib-vaulted timber passageway built between the Chadstone shopping centre and its neighbours by Make Architects in Melboune. Read more View the full article

Washington DC's African American history museum and a leisure centre designed by Brazilian architect Paulo Mendes da Rocha are among the six finalists for this year's Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize. Read more View the full article

Steel corset boning holds together garments made from thin layers of cork and horsehair canvas in Royal College of Art graduate Louise Bennetts' fashion collection. (more...) View the full article

Uber has acquired electric bike-sharing service Jump, in a bid to further expand the modes of transportation available to its users. Read more View the full article

Portuguese photographer Nelson Garrido has used both a handheld and drone-mounted camera to capture the zigzagging paths of the Paiva Walkways, an eight-kilometre-long trail through the wild mountain landscape of Arouca, Portugal (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Creatives must "get their act together and speak with a united voice" to protect the future of the sector post-Brexit, according to London Design Festival and Creative Industries Federation founder John Sorrell. (more…) View the full article

Coca-Cola has released a range of mixers packaged in Hutchinson glass bottles, the design used by the brand in 1894 when the product was first bottled. Read more

Milan 2012: this armchair with a pleated leather seat by London designer Benjamin Hubert was inspired by sleeves with puffed shoulders on Italian Renaissance clothing. (more…) View the full article

The Royal Institute of British Architects in London have announced 59 winners of this year’s RIBA Awards, including projects by David Chipperfield, Foster + Partners and OMA. (more…) View the full article

News: Swiss architecture studio Herzog & de Meuron has been selected to design a visual culture museum in Hong Kong's new West Kowloon Cultural District. (more...) View the full article

Stockholm design studio Claesson Koivisto Rune has created a set of three huge cone-shaped lamps for Swedish lighting brand Wästberg. (more...) View the full article

In this movie made as part of our collaboration with print-on-demand publisher Blurb, we visit three of the world's leading 3D-printing companies and explain how we produced Print Shift, the 60-page magazine about 3D printing that we launched earlier today. (more...) View the full article

OMA and Laboratorio Permanente's Agenti Climatici masterplan will turn two abandoned goods yards in Milan into public parks to filter the city's air and water pollution. Read more

London Design Festival: London-based industrial designer Samuel Wilkinson has designed stackable wooden seating evoking traditional school furniture for Decode London. (more…) View the full article

London-based practice Studio Micat has built this outdoor bakery in a forest in New England, which uses a bicycle to grind up flour for making loaves of sourdough. Read more

This week we've selected five of the best job vacancies in architecture, interiors and design available on Dezeen Jobs, including roles at Olafur Eliasson's studio and Amanda Levete's architecture firm. Read more

Zaha Hadid was named as the 2016 laureate of the prestigious Royal Gold Medal for architecture this week – the first time a woman has won the prize in her own right. Browse her award-winning designs on our updated Pinterest board. Follow Dezeen on Pinterest | See the latest stories on Zaha Hadid View the full article

Pantone played it safe and still missed the mark by picking Classic Blue as its colour of the year for 2020, says Michelle Ogundehin. Read more View the full article

This week on Dezeen, the best architecture of 2016 was lauded at the World Architecture Festival in Berlin, where Zaha Hadid Architects director Patrik Schumacher gave a keynote speech calling for social housing to be scrapped. Read more View the full article

Japanese architects 403architecture have turned the floor of this refurbished apartment in Hamamatsu into a huge chest of drawers. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This week we've been reporting on the latest from Design Miami 2014, including Studio Job's "whacked and expressive" furniture pieces, a bike designed for urban commuters and a neon-tubed light installation (pictured). Read on for more architecture and design highlights, plus our featured track of the week. (more…) View the full article