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From minimalism to maximalism, rugs to suit every taste are being presented at the first furniture fairs of 2020. Dezeen editor-at-large Amy Frearson picks out seven of the most eye-catching examples. Read more View the full article

We've updated our Japanese houses Pinterest board with pictures from new projects, including a house in Osaka with 16 different floor levels and a minimal square building clad in black corrugated metal. Follow Dezeen on Pinterest or visit our updated board to see more. Read more View the full article

PUP Architects has refurbished Surrey Docks Farm in London, reinstating a three-storey tower clad in black timber and topped by a golden pig weathervane. Read more View the full article

Architecture firm Roth Sheppard has added a pair of steeply pitched metal gables to this brick Tudor Revival house in Denver. Read more View the full article

Ahead of today's VDF collaboration with Beatie Wolfe, the musician says that the coronavirus lockdown is a chance to celebrate "the little things that are so often overlooked" in this video message for Virtual Design Festival. Read more View the full article

Herzog & de Meuron's Chelsea FC's Stamford Bridge stadium update is defeated after the planning permission expired. Read more View the full article

Designer Stephen Burks discusses the lack of diversity in the design industry and explains how his early experiences with European brands led him to work with artisans in the developing world in our latest VDF x Friedman Benda talk. Read more View the full article

VDF products fair: The Artisanal collection of tiles by Bert & May is awash in different hues of blue, which nod to the vibrant seas and skies of Spain where the pieces are made by hand. Read more View the full article

San Francisco designer Yves Béhar of Fuseproject has created eco-friendly packaging for footwear brand Puma that is half bag and half box. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Eindhoven designer Laurens Manders has created this lumpy safe for stashing possessions with sentimental value. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Architects SOMAA of Stuttgart have collaborated with Guido Dongus to complete a canteen between two schools in Leonberg, Germany. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen promotion: design brand Ligne Roset Contracts have put into production the Aluchair, designed architect Jacques Ferrier for the French Pavilion at Shanghai Expo 2010. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dutch designers Peter van der Jagt, Erik Jan Kwakkel and Arnout Visser have developed a system of kitchen tiles that fit round corners to cover all surfaces of a kitchen without breaking up the grid of grouting. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Cologne 2011: Hanna Emelie Ernsting‘s Moody Couch was awarded second prize in the [D3] Contest for young designers at imm cologne this week. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Stockholm 2011: German designer Katrin Greiling created the Design Bar at this week’s Stockholm Furniture Fair, featuring these orange cardboard hoods suspended over wooden loungers. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Watch Store: the Record watch, one of the last projects worked on by Italian architect and designer Achille Castiglioni (1918-2002), is now available at Dezeen Watch Store. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Scroll on for all the latest from our recruitment site Dezeen Jobs, including positions with Herzog & de Meuron in Switzerland, Marcel Wanders in the Netherlands and Levi Strauss in Belgium, plus this is the last chance to apply for roles with designers Tom Dixon, Paul Cocksedge and more… (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Estonian studio Salto Architects have completed a temporary summer theatre in Tallinn made of black spray-painted straw bales. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Our most popular and most controversial story this week featured a redesign of the London tube map that’s more geographically accurate than the 1931 classic – read both sides of the argument and have your say here. Other interesting debates this week focused on the Japanese trend for cladding interiors in plywood and whether a monochrome concrete ice cream parlour can be sophisticated or just cold and brutal. In the wake of the riots that broke out across the UK last weekend, a group of architecture graduates launched an initiative called Riot Rebuild to help repair homes and businesses that were damaged. In cheerier news, Ron Arad’s curtain call exhibition…

London designers Shed have completed the new flagship store for fashion brand Spencer Hart, located in a former bank in Mayfair, London. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

London designer Tomás Alonso presented a range of shelves and lighting that combine ash timber with leather saddlery during the London Design Festival. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Following our recent roundup of stories featuring ice and snow, here’s a timber lodge outside Prague that was photographed days after a blizzard. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Venetian designer Luca Nichetto presented this table lamp, called Vader after the Star Wars character whose mask it resembles, at Stockholm Furniture and Light Fair earlier this month. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This week we’ve added a new board to Pinterest compiling all the best photos of living rooms from the pages of Dezeen. We now have over 1000 followers on Pinterest – join in here. View the full article

This time last year MVRDV architect Winy Maas was awarded the highest decoration of honour in France, UNStudio opened a pavilion in New York’s Battery Park and we revealed what it looks like inside Skype’s Stockholm offices. In other news, fuseproject launched a grating tool for making hot cacao that clips onto the side of a mug and West 8 completed a “Garden of 10,000 Bridges” that suspiciously seemed to contain just five. Dezeen readers were busy debating whether a library with shelves for walls would be constantly full of dust and also if its swastika-shaped desks were appropriate. They were also full of praise for a Puma store where sneakers appear to be walking up …