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American fashion designer Rick Owens has created a modular sofa landscape for Carpenters Workshop Gallery, comprising large plywood units upholstered using French wool army blankets. Read more View the full article

Dutch designer Maarten Baas has created a timer in collaboration with with kinetic objects company Laikingland that’s specifically designed not to be accurate. (more…) View the full article

San Jose-based architecture firm Studio Saxe has built a house in Costa Rica with an indoor-outdoor great room and cantilevered porches upstairs that overlook dense tropical foliage. Read more View the full article

American firm Handel Architects have completed a New York hotel with porthole windows that give it an uncanny resemblance to children’s game Connect Four. (more…) View the full article

Product news: designer Michael Young has created a wooden dining chair for Hong Kong design brand EOQ. (more...) View the full article

UK architecture studio The Manser Practice has outlined how hotels will be adapted to allow social distancing when they reopen, and how future designs will be impacted by the coronavirus pandemic. Read more View the full article

The latest edition of Dezeen Weekly includes Zaha Hadid Architects' new airport terminal building in Beijing and photomontages that combine archaeological sites in Iran with contemporary buildings. Subscribe to Dezeen Weekly ›

Norwegian architects Snøhetta have submitted plans for a Maggie’s Centre to provide cancer care facilities in Aberdeen, Scotland. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen promotion: Large windows by Fakro punctuate the roof of a multi-family apartment block in Richmond, USA, creating micro balconies for the residents to enjoy. 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

Design studio Space Popular will speak to Dezeen in a live Screentime conversation sponsored by Enscape as part of Virtual Design Festival. Read more View the full article

This week on Dezeen, Zaha Hadid Architects completed a skyscraper with the world's tallest atrium and revealed its plans for a high-speed train station in Estonia. Read more View the full article

Online payment system PayPal have launched PayPal Here, a device designed by San Francisco studio Fuseproject that allows users to make face-to-face transactions by plugging it into the top of a smartphone. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Skeletal stools and a blobby, monolithic table and chair features in this series of furniture by French designer Elissa Lacoste. Read more

Yasmeen Lari, Pakistan's first female architect, has been awarded the Jane Drew Prize 2020 for raising the profile of women in architecture. Read more View the full article

New York firm DXA Studio has designed a conceptual bridge that would connect the city's new Hudson Yards neighbourhood with the Moynihan Train Hall extension to Penn Station above the streets. Read more

A painted-timber skin that skirts around the top storey of this Hamburg house reveals the heights of staggered floors inside. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This week's Dezeen Mail features highlights from the past seven days, including photo-realistic renderings depicting a house made from a cluster of shipping containers in the Californian desert. Subscribe to Dezeen Mail › View the full article

Multi-coloured walls, geometric floors and a seesaw feature in this west London fashion store, which Yinka Ilori has designed to match the playful nature of the brand's clothing collections. Read more View the full article

The latest edition of our newsletter Dezeen Weekly has impressive visuals of a theatre in China and Peter Barber's plans to design 365 cities. Subscribe to Dezeen Weekly › View the full article

News: a team led by Danish architecture firm COBE has seen off competition from three firms to land the commission for a new railway interchange in Køge, a town 28 miles south of Copenhagen. (more...) View the full article

Dezeen and MINI World Tour: in our next movie from Milan, architect and designer Fabio Novembre takes us to a converted farm near the city centre and explains why he sees the project as an important response to Italy's ongoing economic crisis. (more...) View the full article

Mirrors clad the walls and rooftops of this woodland installation by architecture studio STMPJ, so that at first glance visitors might think its timber-lined windows and doorways are floating in midair (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Gowns with gradated ruffled skirts were accessorised with delicate head scarves in fashion designer Giambattista Valli's haute-couture collection, shown in Paris yesterday. (more...) View the full article

Layers of blue fabric pleated into origami-like patterns bounced down the catwalk at Central Saint Martins graduate Jaimee McKenna's Autumn Winter 2013 show. (more...) View the full article