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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

Dutch designer Richard Hutten and CEO of the Ellen MacArthur Foundation Andrew Morlet discuss the circular economy at Dezeen Day, about how designs can harness natural resources instead of jeopardising them. Read more View the full article

Japanese designer and sound artist Yuri Suzuki has created a machine that can be used to make and play records. Read more View the full article

New York industrial designer Lindsey Adelman's latest light comprises a series of glass orbs that appear to dangle precariously together on a gridded metal frame. Read more

Daily coronavirus briefing: today's architecture and design coronavirus briefing includes a low-cost ventilator, a hospital in Central Park, Salone del Mobile mask collection and brands including IKEA promoting staying at home. Read more View the full article

For his latest collection at this season's London Fashion Week, fashion designer Gareth Pugh created garments informed by the "inescapable forces of the cultural landscape". Read more View the full article

Brooklyn studio Commoncraft has designed this eatery in the borough's Williamsburg neighbourhood, which is intended as a playful tribute to the owner's grandmother. Read more

Dezeen Watch Store: a new watch created by Industrial Facility that is inspired by the design of beer bottles is now on sale at Dezeen Watch Store. (more...) View the full article

VDF products fair: Social Factor is a graphic carpet collection designed by Milliken to support physical distancing in the workplace in light of the coronavirus pandemic. Read more View the full article

Dezeen Mail has gone weekly and this issue includes our plans for Milan next week, stories and comments from readers plus new jobs, competitions and updates from Dezeen Wire and Dezeen Screen. Check it out here. Subscribe to Dezeen Mail » View the full article

This week the Harpa Concert Hall and Conference Centre in Reykjavik scooped the most prestigious European architecture prize, the Mies van der Rohe Award. Read on for more highlights in architecture and design over the past seven days. (more...) View the full article

Architects and critics have hit out at threats to close London's parks amid the coronavirus pandemic, with one describing it as "collective punishment". Read more View the full article

Daylight floods into the reading rooms of this Chilean library though the high level windows of faceted ventilation stacks. Watch a movie of the building » (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

The UK Independence Party has replaced its yellow, pound-sign logo with a purple lion's head – and is now facing a copyright battle with England's main football league, whose own logo is remarkably similar. Read more View the full article

This fly-through animation of Steven Holl's design for a new Visual Arts Building at the University of Iowa was created by 3D design students at the school (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

A gabled cabin by architecture studio Atelier Bow-Wow and a faceted pod by artist Didier Faustino have been installed inside a Parisian gallery as part of an exhibition about imaginary worlds. (more…) View the full article

Dezeen Wire: a Danish news site reports that the power plant with integrated ski slope proposed by Bjarke Ingels Group has been denied funding by the City of Copenhagen due to environmental risks – Politiken See renders of the Waste-to-Energy Plant, which would also blow smoke rings, in our earlier story. </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Interview: German industrial designer Richard Sapper has launched a new website chronicling his work dating back to the 1950s. In an interview looking back on his career he tells Dezeen how he turned down the chance to work at Apple, how design has been "degraded" by commercialism and how 3D printing could help solve unemployment (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

This week positions with architecture studio Foster + Partners and private members' club Soho House are included in our pick of the best vacancies listed on Dezeen Jobs. Read more View the full article

Our pick of the best Christmas cards we've received from architects, designers and brands this year includes Chris Precht's treehouse and a festive Notre-Dame Cathedral. Read more View the full article

London-based architect Stiliyana Minkovska has designed a trio of undulating birthing chairs called Ultima Thule, which offer women a "sanctuary-like" environment during childbirth. Read more View the full article

Dezeen promotion: decaying flowers, abstract blocks of colour and imaginary characters feature in Nanimarquina's latest rug collections. Read more View the full article

Chilean architect Alejandro Aravena has been named as the 2016 recipient of the Pritzker, architecture's equivalent to the Nobel prize, ahead of curating this year's Venice Architecture Biennale. (more…) View the full article

Opinion: the light-filled, social spaces at Diller Scofidio + Renfro's medical education centre at Columbia University could make future doctors demand more from their workspaces and ultimately pave the way for better hospitals, says Alan G Brake. (more…) View the full article

World Architecture Festival 2014: clustered lengths of bamboo create a forest of columns in the open-air dining room of this Vietnam restaurant by Vo Trong Nghia Architects (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article