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The School of Architecture at Taliesin, which Frank Lloyd Wright established nearly 90 years ago, will shut in June, after failing to come to a financial agreement with the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation. Read more View the full article

Grimshaw, the studio behind the Eden Project in Cornwall, has designed an ecological resort in Northern Ireland that will feature a thatched play area and treetop walkways. Read more View the full article

As DesignMarch in Iceland and 3 Days of Design in Copenhagen become the latest design events to be postponed due to the coronavirus outbreak, Dezeen Events Guide has created a dedicated page listing all major events affected by the virus. Read more View the full article

Sand-coloured walls serve as a backdrop to the linen, cane and teak wood furnishings inside this beachside restaurant and bar near Amsterdam, designed by Anne Claus Interiors. Read more View the full article

This week, some readers are envious of architect Timothee Mercier's parents after he converted an unused farm building in France into a new home for them. Read more View the full article

Lonneke Gordijn and Ralph Nauta of Studio Drift speak to Dezeen in our latest Screentime interview at 5:00pm UK time, in which they will reveal details of a secret performance that we will live stream as part of Virtual Design Festival tonight. Read more View the full article

Designer Adam Nathaniel Furman will speak to Dezeen in a live Screentime conversation sponsored by Philips TV & Sound as part of Virtual Design Festival. Watch it here live at 2:00pm UK time. Read more View the full article

French studio Dominique Coulon & Associés has built a covered market alongside an exhibition area, workshops for creatives and a concrete cafe in a former distillery in Schiltigheim. Read more View the full article

Spanish architect Luis Machuca has completed a new faculty building for the Universidad de Málaga, Spain. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Photographer Filippo Poli has sent us his photographs of a centre for rescued turtles, dolphins and birds in Barcelona by Hidalgo Hartmann Arquitectura. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This residential building by Israeli designer Ron Arad is to begin construction in Tel Aviv at the end of this year. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

London firm Duggan Morris Architects have completed this brick house on the site of a former plaster-moulding workshop between two rows of terraced houses in south-east London. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

French photographer Julien Lanoo has sent us these images of an installation by Belgian architects Joris De Schepper and Thomas De Ridder at S.M.A.K – Museum of Modern Art in Ghent, designed to give visitors an idea of the museum’s work behind-the-scenes. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

The Temporium: London brand Uniform Wares have launched their third collection of watches – come and try them on at our pop-up store The Temporium at 221 Brompton Road, London, until 19 December. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Stockholm 2011: Copenhagen designers Aleksej Iskos and Boris Berlin of Iskos-Berlin present this armchair made from a single sheet of felt at Stockholm Furniture Fair this week. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

In the second movie in our series of Dezeentalks at [D3] Design Talents, Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs talks to Swedish designers AKKA, joint first-prize winners of this year’s [D3] Contest young designers competition. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Milan 2011: users can pin their own paper shades onto this cork light fitting by London design studio Raw Edges for Portugese brand Materia. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Spanish studios Xpiral and MTM Arquitectos have completed a public square sheltered by steel trees that hold nets of boulders. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Watch Store: the 150 Series, the latest design by best-selling British watch brand Uniform Wares, is now available at Dezeen Watch Store. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Screen: Robots of Brixton is a sci-fi animation by Bartlett School of Architecture graduate Kibwe Tavares in which a downtrodden robot workforce battles with police against a backdrop of dystopian architecture in scenes reminiscent of the 1981 Brixton riots in London. Tavares, who has now set up animation and architectural imagery studio www.factoryfifteen.com, made the film as his final design project for his masters degree. Watch the movie » </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos have completed an underground museum in Spain with weathered steel towers and cylinders that emerge above a grass lawn (photographs by Roland Halbe and Fernando Alda). (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

The Temporium 2011: we’re now accepting applications to take part in The Temporium, our pop-up design store in London this Christmas. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This time last year Álvaro Siza completed an L-shaped auditorium clad in grey tiles and white marble and Japanese designer Tokujin Yoshioka created a boutique interior for Issey Miyake’s collapsible clothing range. The V&A announced the shortlist for their Exhibition Road development, which was eventually awarded to AL_A, and a house in Switzerland featuring a faceted concrete volume placed on top of a traditional stone building was a hit with our readers. Less popular were a complex mountainside house in Patagonia, which was described by one reader as “the worst kind of self-indulgent, egotistical architectural gymnastics,” and a conceptual algae-producing tower …

London designer Paul Cocksedge recently completed another sculpture resembling pieces of paper caught in the breeze, although this time the leaves glow like a swarm of fireflies. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Screen: in this last movie in our series of interviews with designers who’ll be part of Dezeen Watch Store and friends at trade show Interiors UK from Sunday, Carl Clerkin of All Lovely Stuff presents their charming and functional wooden products. Watch the movie » Dezeen Watch Store and friends will be at stand G31 in the Design Village at Interiors UK, which takes place at the NEC Centre in Birmingham from 22-25 January featuring furniture, lighting, flooring, soft furnishings and accessories from over 600 exhibitors. Register to attend here. </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full arti…