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See the latest from our recruitment site Dezeen Jobs, including positions with David Chipperfield Architects, Blair + Mui Dowd Architects and MAD Architects, which designed the landscape-inspired Chaoyang Park Plaza that is under construction in Beijing (pictured). This is also the last chance to apply for roles with Virgin Atlantic, COS, AMT Coffee and more... (more…) View the full article

This week on Dezeen, architects and designers envisioned socially distanced offices, schools and planes, while a gridded social-distancing system was installed in an Italian piazza. Read more View the full article

This week Dezeen relocated to Milan for the city's annual design week, where we've been reporting on product launches from Zaha Hadid, Ron Arad, Studio Job (above), Konstantin Grcic and more, plus we kicked off the second leg of our Dezeen and MINI World Tour by taking a drive around town with designer Fabio Novembre and set up a TV studio in a car wash. Read on for more highlights of the week and our top track from Dezeen Music Project. (more...) View the full article

Copenhagen architect Kevin Hviid has launched a collection of chairs, including one with a seat back that looks like an oversized bow tie. (more…) View the full article

This eye-tracking camera by Royal College of Art graduate Mimi Zou is controlled by blinking and squinting – and even recognises your friends when it looks into their eyes (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

Skyscrapers in Seoul: the first of two stories about buildings that architect Daniel Libeskind has designed for the Yongsan International Business District that he masterplanned for Seoul, South Korea, features three towers inspired by the movements of a Korean Buddhist dance. (more…) View the full article

Italian designer Piero Lissoni has paired a round-edged cube seat with a vertical rectangular back to create this upholstered chair for furniture brand Viccarbe. (more…) View the full article

New York architect Joel Sanders has overhauled a library at Princeton University by installing interactive technology and colour-coded study areas (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Dutch designers Daphna Laurens have created a series of storage containers that partially conceal their contents behind metal grilles. (more…) View the full article

Alejandro Aravena was named as the 2016 recipient of the Pritzker Prize this week. We've created a Pinterest board of projects by the Chilean architect, as well as buildings by past winners including SANAA, Shigeru Ban and many more. Follow Dezeen on Pinterest | See key projects from previous Pritzker laureates View the full article

Daniel Libeskind's Swarovski star tops the Rockefeller Center's Christmas tree for a second year. In this interview with Dezeen, the architect says the design, like much of his work, is strongly influenced by his experience as an immigrant. Read more View the full article

Aaron Betsky examines the emergence and popularity of Jenga-style towers and pixelated buildings around the world, and hopes that future examples don't tumble into mediocrity. Read more View the full article

ÉCAL graduate Yesul Jang has designed a bed with storage capacity for millennials with limited space in urban dwellings. Read more View the full article

Winter is here in the northern hemisphere, so we've updated our Pinterest board depicting snowy architecture scenes. The board features dozens of projects including mountain cabins, ski lodges and cosy winter retreats. Follow Dezeen on Pinterest or visit our snow-scenes board to see more. Read more View the full article

French designer Noé Duchaufour-Lawrance based this bookcase for design brand Meta on the spiralling shape of an ammonite fossil. (more…) View the full article

Steel stilts elevate Narula House, a British dwelling on banks of a River Thames tributary that has been designed by John Pardey Architects to endure flooding. 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

Six designers from China have created a series of conceptual products that aim to improve public health in the wake of outbreaks like the coronavirus, from an ultraviolet sterilising lamp to a DIY upper body capsule. Read more View the full article

A cookbook by El Bulli chef Ferran Adrià played a key role in determining architecture firm Woods Bagot's design for its new Melbourne studio (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Plazma Architecture Studio has completed a house in Vilnius, Lithuania, clad in timber with deep-set glazing and a display garage for showcasing a car. Read more View the full article

In this exclusive Dezeen video, Japanese architect Junya Ishigami explains how his design for this year's Serpentine Pavilion was built to resemble a "stone hill". Read more

Steven Holl Architects has completed a concrete public library in New York's Long Island City featuring large irregular windows that offer views of the waterfront and Manhattan. Read more

Our summer sale has started on Dezeen Watch Store with savings of up to 40% on our curated collection of watches, including the stylish and sophisticated touch-screen Mutewatch. Now only £159.20 (UK and EU) or £132.67 (rest of world). Buy now » View the full article

Designer Yinka Ilori has won a competition to overhaul a "gloomy underpass" in south London, with a proposal featuring vibrant colours and bold patterns. Read more View the full article

A stainless steel volume topped by a skylight protrudes from this house in Santiago, which Chilean architect Rodolfo Cañas has completed for his family. Read more