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Daily coronavirus briefing: today's architecture and design coronavirus briefing includes coronavirus tartan and emojis. Read more View the full article

US architecture practice Collective Office "updated the rustic farmhouse typology" for this house in Wisconsin, which comprises three gabled units clad in black metal siding and shingles. Read more View the full article

An apartment in Tel Aviv with herringbone flooring went viral on our Pinterest channel this week, so we've chosen to count down our top 10 most-pinned homes with parquet detailing (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Architect Snøhetta has pledged to only design carbon-negative buildings, meaning their projects will generate more energy than they consume over their lifetime. Read more View the full article

Northern California's coastal landscape and foggy weather influenced the design of the latest office by Canopy, a co-working company founded by designer Yves Behar, developer Amir Mortazavi and entrepreneur Steve Mohebi. Read more

Creative leaders of London's cultural institutions have collaborated with 10 designers to create an object of personal relevance to them from American red oak wood for London Design Festival. Read more

Architects Coop Himmelb(l)au have completed a film and theatre centre in South Korea with a steel and glass cantilever that’s wider than the wings of an Airbus A380 (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

In our latest competition, we're offering one reader and five friends a three-night stay in the Boat House cabin at Cabü by the Sea in Kent. Read more View the full article

Rafael Viñoly's Walkie Talkie skyscraper in London has once again become a subject of controversy, following reports that its curved facade is channelling gusts of wind strong enough to knock people over. (more…) View the full article

Toy company Lego has reacted to the launch of Tesla's Cybertruck be sharing a picture of a car made from a single plastic brick. Read more View the full article

This year marked 100 years since the Bauhaus was founded. To celebrate the occasion we've selected 10 designs related to the school that would be ideal gifts. Read more View the full article

Smart-home technology and innovative cars were overshadowed at CES by tiny robots designed to be human companions. We've rounded up eight of the kitschiest offerings at this year's event. Read more View the full article

Redbridge School in Lisbon by ARX Portugal is formed of two wood-framed buildings clad with metal, one featuring a playground on its roof. Read more View the full article

Prefabricated housing company Koto has designed a cabin-like ADU, or Accessory Dwelling Unit, that can be delivered to sites in San Jose, California in two weeks. Read more View the full article

Designed in Hackney: Donna Wilson‘s Frank, Ernest and Henry Pouffes conclude our week focussed on designs that were developed in studios above SCP‘s Shoreditch shop. (more…) View the full article

Curators Edouard Cabay and Margherita Del Grosso led a workshop during the New Generations architecture festival in Genoa to produce this wooden installation resembling the shapes of ship sails (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

We're heading to Arizona for this week's roundup of American houses from different states, where a rammed-earth retreat near the Mexican border and a white concrete house in the desert are among our top five (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

The Hudson Yards development in New York and a Texas art centre by David Adjaye are among the top 10 architecture projects in the US this year, selected by US editor Eleanor Gibson for our review of 2019. Read more View the full article

News: consumers can save money by printing products at home rather than shopping for them, according to Janne Kyttanen, co-founder of design studio Freedom of Creation and creative director of 3D printer company 3D Systems (+ interview). (more…) View the full article

Troika founding partner Eva Rucki explains the studio's large-scale immersive light installations in this movie filmed by Dezeen at our Designed in Hackney Day. (more...) View the full article

Continuing our coverage of the recent explosion of tech company headquarters in San Francisco, here's a look inside the offices of online property rental service Airbnb, which feature rooms modelled on eight of the company's listed apartments (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

With stone-clad walls and a deep red atrium, this medical centre in Kuwait was designed by AGi architects to look more like a cultural building than a health facility (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

London designer Anthony Dickens has created a snaking, modular lighting system made of bamboo and paper (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

London studio Loop.pH mimicked the molecular structures of carbon atoms to generate the form of this illuminated wiry dome (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

Visitors are encouraged to touch, swing, stack and reconfigure colourful plush furniture staged throughout this installation, which Fort Makers designed to harness the "power of play" in its New York gallery. Read more View the full article