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California studio SPF Architects has wrapped the top level of this three-winged residence in Bel Air with glazing to provide ample sunlight and views of its hilly surrounds in Los Angeles. Read more

People "don’t want to go back" to how things were before coronavirus, claims trend forecaster Li Edelkoort in a new manifesto of hope for a post-pandemic world, which is published exclusively on Dezeen today as part of Virtual Design Festival. Edelkoort will take part in a live interview with Dezeen at 2:00pm UK time as part of the launch of VDF. Check the VDF home page from 1:30pm onwards! Read more View the full article

A walkable concrete roof on thin steel stilts connects and shades the textured brick blocks of a training centre in Hanoi by Vo Trong Nghia Architects. Read more

One of the founders of 31/44 Architects has built his own London home, which is arranged around three courtyards to make it easy for domestic life to spill outdoors. Read more View the full article

Our US job of the week on the new and improved Dezeen Jobs website is for an architect/designer at Design, Bitches in Los Angeles, whose recent projects include Button Mash – an Asian-fusion restaurant and video arcade (pictured). Visit the ad for full details or browse other architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs. View the full article

Stockholm 2013: these bent wood chairs by Japanese studio Nendo flick out at the back as if they're wearing capes. (more...) View the full article

Forensic Architecture has created an interactive model of a notorious torture prison in Syria, using the eye- and ear-witness accounts of survivors (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

The artistic director of this year's Chicago Architecture Biennial Yesomi Umolu has picked five highlights from the event, including a glass memorial dedicated to victims of gun violence victims and a small cinema set that explores race and gender in 20th-century. Read more

IKEA, Habitat and Heal's are among the brands named in PETA's first Vegan Homeware Awards, which recognise the best cruelty-free designs for the home. Read more View the full article

The all-white panel of architects gathered by Woods Bagot to discuss Los Angeles' future urban development last week was embarrassingly misrepresentative of the city's diversity and needs, argues Janelle Zara. Read more View the full article

The steeply pitched roof of this shingled chapel by Bernardo Bader Architects provides a dramatic worship space, which narrows towards a small window facing a grassy hillside in western Austria. Read more View the full article

The global influence of the annual Serpentine Pavilion commission makes the Serpentine Galleries the most searched-for institution by architects and designers, according to the first ever Dezeen Hot List. Read more View the full article

Clerkenwell Design Week 2013: this wall mounted shelving unit by London designer Michael Marriott is now being produced by design brand Very Good & Proper (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Jun Takahashi's cult fashion label Undercover has released a down jacket with a hood based on an astronaut's helmet. Read 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

This time last year we featured projects constructed from all kinds of unusual materials, including a car made of cartilage that generates its own fuel from algae, pencils created from workshop dust and a table made from polystyrene steamed inside fabric moulds. Balsa wood was the material graduate Ki Hyun Kim used to construct a dining chair that weighs just 1.3 kilograms and concrete proved popular as usual in our stories about some very heavy vases and a house that resembles a half-submerged submarine. Meanwhile, toilets became a talking point after we featured some tree-mounted urinals at a music festival, leading us to count down our top ten stories about loos.…

The bases of these tables by Brussels designer Alain Gilles are made from bent metal frameworks that resemble crinoline petticoats. Read more View the full article

Interview: neglected techniques represent a new set of opportunities says Sebastian Cox, one of a number of young designers that are championing the revival of traditional crafts in the UK. (more...) View the full article

An ash-wood staircase perforated with circular holes connects the two storeys of an Edwardian house in Lewisham, London, which has been extended by architects R2 Studio. Read more View the full article

Opaque glass cladding on this south London house by Ian McChesney reflects the brick and stucco facades of neighbouring Victorian properties and foliage from a park next door (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

London Design Festival: each of these mix-and-match vessels by London design studio Vitamin is fixed together from rings of assorted materials including marble, cut glass, turned wood and 3D printed resin. (more…) View the full article

Los Angeles architect Jimenez Lai speaks to Dezeen in this Screentime conversation sponsored by Enscape as part of Virtual Design Festival today. Watch it live from 5:00pm UK time. Read more View the full article

London Design Festival 2016: this furniture collection from designer Alessandro Zambelli features a puzzle of metal pieces that have been oxidised to different degrees (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

The latest news on Thomas Heatherwick's controversial Garden Bridge, Sacha Baron Cohen's Apple spoof and a cliffside residence with a wavy zinc-covered facade (pictured) feature in this week's edition of Dezeen Mail. Read Dezeen Mail issue 297 | Subscribe to Dezeen Mail View the full article

Uneven slats and giant staples feature in the Rafael outdoor furniture collection, created by Italian designer Paola Navone for Italian brand Ethimo. Read more View the full article