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This time five years ago Dezeen visited Stockholm Furniture Fair for the very first time, where we saw an artificial garden created by designer and guest of honour Konstantin Grcic, as well as installations by up and coming designers at the Greenhouse show. We reported on the graphic design of three different magazines - the makeover of Portuguese national newspaper Público, the new look for British architecture newspaper Building Design and brand new lifestyle magazine Monocle, which is now celebrating its fifth birthday. British architects FAT revealed images of a decorative school facade that one Dezeen reader thought was “strange stuff” plus we featured misty imag…

Renault has devised a concept for an autonomous, electric vehicle that would provide city dwellers with an alternative to public transport. Read more View the full article

The coronavirus epidemic will lead to "a global recession of a magnitude that has not been experienced before" but will eventually allow humanity to reset its values, according to trend forecaster Li Edelkoort. Read more View the full article

Agricultural barns were an inspiration for this holiday home in Pullenvale, Australia, designed by Paul Uhlmann Architects and featuring glazed gable-ends. Read more View the full article

San Francisco studio Fuseproject has created a concept for a wearable device to allow people in the developing world to test themselves for symptoms of chronic illnesses such as malaria without having to visit a doctor (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

This collection of furniture by Dutch designer Kiki van Eijk looks like it’s made of textiles but is in fact fashioned from solid metal. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This week on Dezeen, it was revealed that terrorists behind the Barcelona attack also plotted to bomb the Sagrada Família and Italian architect Stefano Boeri suggested that trees could prevent targeted vehicle-related incidents in the future. Read more View the full article

Wooden stairs climb up through a narrow lightwell inside this house by Japanese studio Tato Architects. (more…) View the full article

An indoor courtyard with orange grass and shiny, silver curtains are some of the fun features that Lucas y Hernández-Gil has added to the basement of this Madrid apartment. Read more

New York-based architectural design practice Jenny Sabin Studio has won MoMA PS1's Young Architecture Program competition with plans for a shelter made of robotically knitted textile solar panels. Read more View the full article

In this week's comments update, readers are divided over Katy Perry's decision to remove allegedly "racist" designs from her shoe line. Read more

Dezeen's Face to Face podcast series continues with an interview with designer Thomas Heatherwick, who talks about his childhood fascination with engineering, his distaste for architectural discourse and how he completed his first building while still a student. Read more View the full article

Dezeen promotion: Wolfgang Rieder, owner of the Rieder Group, has become the first design entrepreneur to be granted a Loeb Fellowship at Harvard University. Read more View the full article

Our job of the day from Dezeen Jobs is for a middleweight designer at The Collective, which opened the world's largest co-living building in London last year. More › View the full article

Spindly orange walkways are raised above the waters and meadows of this wetland park designed by landscape architects Turenscape on a neglected river in China (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Online design retailer Radnor has opened a new studio and launched an updated furniture collection inside The Old American Can Factory in Gowanus, Brooklyn. Read more View the full article

Dyson has created 44 engineering and science activities for children to try out while at home during the coronavirus pandemic, from making a balloon-powered car to building a bridge from spaghetti. Read more View the full article

Seoinn Design Group has designed a place of worship with a stone tower featuring a cross hanging over an observatory as a contemporary spire for the Saemoonan Church in South Korea. Read more

Peruvian studio 51-1 Arquitectos has completed an academic building in Lima that is meant to serve as a "gastronomic machine" for training culinary and hospitality students. Read more View the full article

This towel rail by Japanese designer Hioomi Tahara comprises a rope wound around wall-mounted sticks. (more…) View the full article

The Royal Institute of British Architects has revealed the shortlist for this year's Stirling Prize, including Damien Hirst's London gallery, an Oxford university building by Herzog & de Meuron and a forest home for a pair of artists (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

This week last year designers BarberOsgerby were appointed to design the Torch for the London 2012 Olympic Games, while they later unveiled in June, a fashion designer and an architect showed a collection of 3d-printed clothing and a boulder-shaped mausoleum opened in Acapulco. Japanese architects Apollo completed two houses with pointy overhangs in Sendai, one black and one white, while in Denmark a physical shop opened where customers can buy digital fonts. A Dezeen commenter accused architects Ooze of raping an old house that they had wrapped with a faceted skin, and another thought an orange showroom building with gaping holes in its facade best resembled a chunk …

Pomo summer: art director Jean-Paul Goude brought Postmodernism's bold shapes and historical references into the fashion world with his maternity dress for Grace Jones, which both disguised and celebrated her pregnancy. In the next instalment from our season, we explore the genesis of the dress and how it made Jones a poster child for the design movement everyone loves to hate. (more…) View the full article

Dark grey cladding, snowy white interiors and ample natural light feature in this home with a basement apartment, designed by Canadian studio D'Arcy Jones Architects for an extended family. Read more View the full article

Industrial designer Kim Ramain-Colomb's brightly packaged Habibi cosmetics range is based on traditional Moroccan makeup. Read more View the full article