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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

Today is Earth Day! To mark the occasion, VDF has collaborated with The World Around to host a series of talks, interviews, short films and essays exploring ideas that could "shape the future of our relationship with the planet". Read more View the full article

Mortar oozes between the off-white bricks that clad this house in Brisbane, which architect Peter Belsey has designed to look "immensely heavy". Read more View the full article

Beatrice Galilee has curated an online design symposium for Virtual Design Festival, which will be broadcast from 1:00pm UK time later today. In this video message, she questions the role of the creative industries during the coronavirus pandemic. Read more View the full article

Artists and designers including Vivienne Westwood, Christopher Kane and Wolfgang Tillmans have created protest-style posters about coronavirus for Dazed Media. Read more View the full article

Musée Atelier Audemars Piguet is a spiral-shaped building rising up out of the landscape of Vallée de Joux in Switzerland designed by BIG for the watchmaker to house its collection of timepieces. Read more View the full article

Next up our series of roundups of houses from each US state we're looking at Michigan, where residences are designed to make the most of its abundance of shoreline. Read more View the full article

Architecture video blogger Martin van der Linden explains the different types of torii gates found at Japanese Shinto temples, in his latest contribution to Virtual Design Festival. Read more View the full article

This week, some readers are envious of architect Timothee Mercier's parents after he converted an unused farm building in France into a new home for them. Read more View the full article

In the final part of Virtual Design Festival's collaboration with Zoomed In festival, we are broadcasting a discussion with architectural photographers Dennis Gilbert and Jim Stephenson, who will be screening films from their personal archives. The event will be live-streamed at 7pm UK time. Read more View the full article

In the third part of Virtual Design Festival's collaboration with Zoomed In festival, we are streaming a discussion on architectural photography in the media with Anthony Coleman, Edmund Sumner, James Brittain and Robert Torday. The talk will be live-streamed at 5pm UK time. View the full article

Hospitals "desperately need designers" to improve everything from the way they tackle coronavirus to the layout of operating theatres and the design of medical charts, according to a senior US doctor. Read more View the full article

Monolithic concrete colonnades wrap around a pool in this studio and gallery that Mexican architect Arcadio Marín has designed for his sculptor brother Javier. Read more View the full article

In the second part of Virtual Design Festival's collaboration with Zoomed In festival, photographer Iñigo Bujedo Aguirre explains his journey from photojournalism to architectural photography. The lecture will be live-streamed at 2pm UK time. Read more View the full article

A two-bed intensive care unit within a shipping container, designed by Italian architects Carlo Ratti and Italo Rota, has been built at a hospital in Turin and is being used to treat patients fighting the coronavirus. Read more View the full article

Coen Car is a concept design by Nendo that envisions children playing with a fleet of autonomous vehicles that function as pieces of mobile and interactive playground equipment. Read more View the full article

Daily coronavirus briefing: today's architecture and design coronavirus briefing includes a medical isolation hood, Milan's post-coronavirus plans and rainbow art to raise spirits. Read more View the full article

VDF teams up with architecture imagery festival Zoomed In today to host a day of talks and screenings, starting with a discussion on photographing infrastructure with Anthony Coleman, Dennis Gilbert and Kilian O'Sullivan. Read more View the full article

A pack of mischievous rats cause chaos in this installation by graffiti artist Banksy who, like many, is working from home during the coronavirus lockdown. Read more View the full article

Dutch design studio Raw Color has suggested using odd socks to help prevent the spread of coronavirus. Read more View the full article

The latest episode of Dezeen's Face to Face podcast features architectural designer John Pawson, who recounts his brief spell as a Buddhist monk, how Calvin Klein changed his life and explains how minimalism helps calm his "untidy mind". Read more 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

A school from the 1960s in Torino, Italy, has been updated with a pink steel and adobe plaster extension designed by architecture studio BDR Bureau. Read more View the full article

Mexico City's AG Studio has turned a colonial house in San Miguel De Allende, Mexico into a boutique hotel featuring tiled archways and yellow walls that look like a "large corn cob". Read more View the full article

The Pratt Institute has launched an archival project that pays tribute to women in architecture. Following a celebratory dinner party held in March, the school's dean of architecture Harriet Harriss explains why projects like the Mistresses Archive are vital to achieve gender parity in the profession. Read more View the full article