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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

Dezeen Watch Store: new to Dezeen Watch Store this week is this silicone version of the Vigorelli timepiece designed by Matteo Ragni for Lorenz: (more…) View the full article

Following the fifth edition of Romanian Design Week, Dezeen has selected the best exhibited designs, including modular children's furniture, wooden headphones and traditionally patterned rugs (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Green shingles cover the exterior of this octagonal, flatpack garden room in south west London, designed by Studio Ben Allen. Read more View the full article

The Hanwha headquarters office tower in Seoul has been remodelled by Dutch architecture firm UNStudio, retrofitting its facade to hold solar panels. Read more View the full article

A serene meditation room overlooking the Pacific Ocean is lit by a large round skylight in this seaside retreat designed by Mexico City studio Colectivo Lateral de Arquitectura. Read more View the full article

News: Foster + Partners has unveiled its design for a new National Museum of Marine Science and Technology in northern Taiwan, which has now begun construction. (more…) View the full article

London studio Pengelly Design has created an airline seat that converts into a 2.2-metre-long bed for Virgin Atlantic. (more…) View the full article

These photographs show the newly converted aquatics centre by Zaha Hadid Architects for the London 2012 Olympics, which will open to the public next week without the controversial wings that housed additional seating during the Games. (more...) View the full article

Japanese designer Naoto Fukasawa appeared in our latest movie filmed as part of Dezeen and MINI World Tour discussing the minimal design and intuitive interface of this mobile phone created for Japanese company KDDI (+ movies). (more...) View the full article

Dutch studio Shift Architecture Urbanism has extended the Oude Dijk monastery in Tilburg with a brick extension with a nursing home and apartments for its residents, the Sisters of Charity. Read more View the full article

With millions of people across the world in self-isolation or quarantine to slow the spread of coronavirus, content producer Sebastian Jordahn has put together a list of documentaries on architecture and design to stave off isolation boredom. Read more View the full article

In our latest competition, we're offering our readers the chance to win a week-long retreat for two at Soul & Surf in Sri Lanka. Read more View the full article

Architect Arthur Mamou-Mani has called for help to turn an installation designed for this year's Burning Man into a virtual experience after the desert festival was cancelled due to coronavirus. Read more View the full article

Italian architect Antonino Cardillo used roughly textured plaster to create lumpy brown surfaces across the upper walls and ceilings of this apartment in Rome (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Milan 2015: architect Zaha Hadid has carved pleats into the surfaces of these vases and tables made from different varieties of marble (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

London Design Festival: Zaha Hadid teamed up with hairdressing brand Fudge to create a pop-up hair salon in London last week. (more…) View the full article

Vertiginous swimming pools will cantilever like diving boards from every apartment in this tower proposed for Lima, Peru, by Mexican studio DCPP Arquitectos. (more…) View the full article

This black woodland house on the outskirts of Seattle is set around a gravelled courtyard, which provides its residents with a secluded outdoor space safe from roaming elk. Read more View the full article

Dezeen Day, our international architecture and design conference, is tomorrow! Didn't manage to get a ticket? Follow along on our Twitter page as we tweet from the event starting at 9am UK time, and join the discussion using #dezeenday. Read more View the full article

"Women are doing some of the most prestigious work in New York" but nobody knows who they are, according to architect and filmmaker Beverly Willis, who wants to change this with her new movie about the women who have shaped the city. Read more View the full article

American designer Alex P White has created a model unit for a high-end condominium building in Manhattan that features exposed concrete ceilings, grey plaster walls and vanilla-coloured decor. Read more

Clerkenwell Design Week 2013: new table sizes and a matching bench have been added to London designer Mathias Hahn's E8 range of colourful wooden furniture. (more...) View the full article

Shanghai studio Archi-Union used differently sized bricks to make waves across the exterior of this restaurant and members’ club at a cultural heritage park in Chengdu, China (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

The International Contemporary Furniture Fair in New York was overshadowed this week by news that one designer had been arrested while installing his project in the city and accused of “planting false bombs”, which our readers labelled a “titanic over-reaction” and indicative of the “hysteria and squareness of NY authorities”. (more…) View the full article