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London studio Pearson Lloyd has designed a steel flat-pack chair, called Cross Chair Tube, for Danish furniture brand Takt. Read more View the full article

This week on Dezeen we launched a Virtual Design Festival featuring a live video interview with Li Edelkoort and messages from architects and designers from across the world. Read more View the full article

Designer Sebastian Errazuriz has created an online exhibition that allows collectors to preview artworks in their home using augmented reality tools during the coronavirus pandemic. Read more View the full article

Manufacturers in Spain are reopening their factories after two weeks in total lockdown to stop the spread of coronavirus, with brands to promising to "bounce back". Read more View the full article

In the fifth and final part of today's collaboration between Virtual Design Festival and Forward Festival, Fredrik Öst explains how his creative agency Snask ended up acquiring a rock band. Read more View the full article

Architecture studio SO-IL has designed a major installation for Lisbon's Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology that creates a new public route through the middle of the Amanda Levete-designed building via a secret rear entrance. Read more View the full article

In the fourth part of today's collaboration between Virtual Design Festival and Forward Festival, artist and designer Sarah Illenberger discusses how she makes illustrations from everyday objects. Read more View the full article

In the third part of today's collaboration between Virtual Design Festival and Forward Festival, Freitag creative director Pascal Dulex explains how the Swiss accessories brand evolved from making bags out of truck tarpaulins to creating compostable clothes. Read more View the full article

Two white volumes are fronted with large openings that frame countryside views “like works of art on the wall” in this Menorca house designed by local architect Marina Senabre. Read more View the full article

In the second part of today's collaboration between Virtual Design Festival and Forward Festival, Erik Spiekermann shares seven propositions for designers to remember. Read more View the full article

In the first part of today's collaboration between Virtual Design Festival and Vienna's Forward Festival, MoMA design curator Paola Antonelli talks about the role museums play in documenting the times. Read more View the full article

Designer Fabio Novembre questions the desire to return to normal after the coronavirus pandemic, claiming that "the virus is in the system we used to live in", in a video message recorded for Virtual Design Festival. Read more View the full article

Oliver Leech Architects has extended a house in south London, adding a kitchen that pairs natural wood and brick with a muted colour palette. Read more View the full article

Daily coronavirus briefing: today's architecture and design coronavirus briefing includes plexiglass beach cabins and free Zoom backgrounds from Studio Ghibli. Read more View the full article

British architects, artists and critics have selected the buildings that they look forward to seeing again after the coronavirus pandemic. Read more View the full article

Students on the Master of Architecture postgraduate course at the University of Brighton present their work in this digital student show as part of Virtual Design Festival. Read more View the full article

In his second video selection for Virtual Design Festival, Martin van der Linden explains the metabolist characteristics of Kenzo Tange's Kuwait Embassy, which the video blogger describes as one of his favourite buildings in Tokyo. Read more View the full article

James Garvan Architecture has added gabled timber-batten screens to the facade of this house in Sydney, which is meant to mimic the form of a neighbouring property. Read more View the full article

Furniture brand Brdr Krüger has launched a chair developed by the late Danish architect Nanna Ditzel in 1983. Read more View the full article

The concrete rooms of Jipyungzip, a guesthouse by BCHO Architects in South Korea, are sunk into a grassy shttps://admin.dezeen.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=1485288&action=edit#edit_timestamplope with flat roofs that form terraces overlooking the sea. Read more View the full article

The American Institute of Architects has cancelled its annual conference, which was set to take place in a month, as the US continues to battle the spread of coronavirus. Read more View the full article

Kengo Kuma's SunnyHills cake shop illustrates how the architect interprets the Japanese vernacular, according to YouTuber Martin van der Linden in the first of a series of videos from Tokyo shared with Virtual Design Festival. Read more View the full article

The latest edition of Dezeen Weekly includes the schedule of talks, interviews, movies and more taking place during Virtual Design Festival and 10 key buildings from the book Chinese Brutalism Today. Subscribe to Dezeen Weekly › View the full article

Astrid Klein and Mark Dytham of Klein Dytham Architecture explain how Japan's culture of bowing instead of hand-shaking may have helped in the fight against coronavirus, in their video message recorded for Virtual Design Festival. Read more View the full article

Mexican architect Rozana Montiel has developed a "new kind of folded concrete" that is being used to build prefabricated solid-waste furnaces across Mexico. Read more View the full article