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The design world flocked to Milan last week for its design week. But soon the action will shift to China, which is about to leapfrog the west when it comes to architecture and design, predicts Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs. Read more

Chinese architecture firm LUO Studio has made a beetle-shaped micro library for children, from the abandoned frame of a bike-sharing scheme bicycle. Read more

Gresford Architects has added an extension with a sunken seating area to a Victorian house in London's Hackney, featuring pink walls inside and out. Read more

The staircase leading up to the Louis Kahn-designed Four Freedoms State Park in New York City has been covered with a huge rainbow to celebrate Pride Month this year. Read more

Danish fashion label Ganni has opened a UK store in London's Soho that's been completed with homely, pastel-tone interiors created in collaboration with Stamuli Architecture. Read more

We've selected five of the best architecture and design positions on Dezeen Jobs, including vacancies at Californian studio Belzberg Architects and British firm John McAslan + Partners. Read more

Tickets for Dezeen Day are selling fast, with just 20 tickets remaining at the reduced early-bird price of £250. Read more

David Leech Architects has built a two-storey house in Dublin that plays on the design of its neighbours to make something "ambiguous yet familiar". Read more

The pods that Spanish practice SelgasCano has built to form garden studios in Second Home's first US campus resemble a group of huge yellow lily pads from above. Read more View the full article

Danish architecture studio BIG is designing a "prototype city of the future" with wooden buildings and autonomous vehicles for Japanese car company Toyota near Mount Fuji in Japan. Read more View the full article

US firm Olson Kundig Architects has created a family cabin with a compact footprint and a tall profile, enabling it to serve as an "intimate gathering place in the trees". Read more View the full article

Forensic Architecture founder Eyal Weizman has been denied entry to the United States ahead of the opening of his studio's Miami exhibition that explores the "arbitrary logic of the border". Read more View the full article

With design fairs being cancelled or postponed due to coronavirus, Dezeen is announcing Virtual Milan, a digital platform that will allow brands to launch their products. Read more View the full article

The coronavirus has exposed fundamental problems with our healthcare systems that we should not forget once the pandemic passes, warns Reinier de Graaf in a letter to the present from the future. Read more View the full article

Concrete was cast against bamboo to create the rugged walls of this boutique hotel in Bali, by Australian architect Nic Brunsdon. Read more View the full article

Architecture firm ODA has designed a residential building in downtown Seattle that splits in half to create an elevated private park. Read more View the full article

Dezeen movie: in this third film about Italian design for the Design Museum in association with Peroni Nastro Azzurro, author Dr Andrew Nahum and Royal College of Art professor Dale Harrow discuss the making of the Italian car. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Blankets hang from wooden frames to represent a rural village in this installation at Helmrinderknecht gallery in Berlin by Dutch designers Studio Makkink & Bey. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Scroll down for the latest update from our recruitment site Dezeenjobs, including jobs with United Nude in China, UXUS in Amsterdam and Xindao in Shanghai, plus this is the last chance to apply for roles at Levi Strauss, 1508 London and more… (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This residential extension to the orangery of an eighteenth century castle in Yvelines, France, is by architect Christian Pottgiesser. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Edinburgh studio Malcolm Fraser Architects have completed this wooden treehouse housing an artists’ studio in Glen Nevis, Scotland. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Japanese interior designer Yukio Kimura has created this combined cafe, gallery and second-hand book shop in Osaka, Japan. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Designer Dominic Wilcox has taken an abandoned office in a London building being demolished this week and painted the entire contents white. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Wire: the Royal Institute of British Architects in London has published a report promoting the social and economic benefits of well-designed buildings. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

The roof of this extended house in Melbourne sweeps outwards to create an exterior canopy and curves steeply upwards over a double-height dining room. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article