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Dezeen's editorial director Amy Frearson will speak to the designers behind Italian furniture brand Minotti about their approach to combing heritage with a vision for the future. Watch the livestream here from 12:00pm on Thursday 9 May. Read more

With just two days to go until entries close for Dezeen Awards 2019, we've put together a handy guide to what happens after you hit submit on your entry: Read more

The Jiangsu Beisha Kindergarten in China has been conceived as a miniature village, with a cluster of house-like structures clustered around a square, connected via winding paths and raised walkways. Read more

In our latest competition, we've teamed up with creative agency Grand Matter to offer five readers the chance to win the print of their choice, illustrated by artist Aiste Stancikaite. Read more

The residents of this house in São Paulo, designed by local architecture firm Studio Arthur Casas, can bathe in a cantilevered swimming pool and play golf on the roof. Read more

Beaded costumes designed for the Mardi Gras parades in New Orleans by artist and educator Big Chief Demond Melancon were on show at London's V&A museum for London Design Festival. Read more

SoomeenHahm Design, Igor Pantic and Fologram have built a twisting pavilion for the 2019 Tallinn Architecture Biennial using augmented reality and old-fashioned woodworking. Read more

Musician and fashion designer Pharrell Williams has designed a two-tower residential development for Toronto, Canada. Read more View the full article

After his 3D rendering of a cloud-like armchair went viral on social media last year, Argentinian designer Andrés Reisinger has made the Hortensia chair a reality with the help of 20,000 fabric petals. Read more View the full article

Brazilian architect Isay Weinfeld has completed his first US project – an upscale residential building in Manhattan's West Chelsea neighbourhood that features verdant courtyards and "a paparazzi-proof porte-cochère". Read more View the full article

Dezeen promotion: UK manufacturer Forbo Flooring has created a range of textile entrance flooring from regenerated industrial and post-consumer waste, which can reduce cleaning time for businesses. Read more View the full article

Architecture studio Bonell+Dòriga has revamped an apartment in Ricardo Bofill's Walden 7 in Barcelona, dotting its interior with colourful geometric elements that reference the building's facade. Read more View the full article

Hand-moulded ceramic modules are balanced on top of each other to form structures close to two metres high, in this homeware collection by Russian architect Anastasia Tikhomirova. Read more View the full article

A rust-coloured leather nightstand and desk with looping wooden legs are among the furniture pieces in this collection by Brooklyn's Bowen Liu Studio. Read more View the full article

Research and design platform Livable has created a rattan frame that is worn over the head and body to increase awareness of the need for social distancing during the Covid-19 pandemic . Read more View the full article

In the first of three exclusive video interviews with Dezeen for Virtual Design Festival, fashion designer Iris van Herpen explains how her training as a ballet dancer led her to pioneer the use of new technologies and materials in haute couture. Read more View the full article

Fifteen architecture graduates from the American University in Dubai (AUD) present work addressing the living and working conditions of local labour workers and other pressing social concerns in this Virtual Design Festival school show. Read more View the full article

We’ve teamed up with publishers Merrel to offer our readers the chance to win one of five copies of New Architecture in Japan by Yuki Sumner and Naomi Pollock with David Littlefield, featuring photography by Edmund Sumner. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Vacation pods in a climate change-stricken New York and a money-laundering bank for the Japanese government are among the concepts presented here by Carleton University's MArch students in this VDF school show. Read more View the full article

Korean designer Sehwan Oh has designed a paperclip holder in the shape of a turtle’s shell. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeenwire: the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art have announced Adjaye Associates, Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Foster + Partners and Snøhetta as the finalists in a competition to design an expansion to the museum - SFMoMA </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Design student Martha Schwindling has created a series of three tables with drawers that twist or tilt open. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Japanese firm Ryuji Nakamura Architects installed these vinyl hammocks in a department store in Tokyo. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Hong Kong department store Lane Crawford invited eight designers including Tom Dixon (above), Michael Young, Jaime Hayón and Ilse Crawford to revamp the Chinese ming-style chair for an exhibition currently on show at the ifc mall in Hong Kong. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Clavienrossier’s extension to a stone house in Switzerland (top left) was our most popular this week, so here’s a selection of stories we’ve published about extensions for residential buildings. See all the stories » </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article