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New York architecture firm SO-IL has designed an exhibition to present a Japanese handicraft that uses remnants of hemp fabric. Read more View the full article

Retractable walls and numerous terraces feature in this expansive California home designed by US architecture firm Olson Kundig. Read more View the full article

New Stone Age at London's Building Centre shows the potential of stone as a modern construction material. Curator Steve Webb picks five projects from the exhibition that use it in innovative, practical and sustainable ways. Read more View the full article

Artists and designers have grabbed their pens, pencils and digital styluses to create images of support and informative illustrations to help distribute advice on how to slow the spread of coronavirus. Read more View the full article

The Design Museum is closing its doors today, following British Prime Minister Boris Johnson's official advice that citizens should avoid all public gatherings and non-essential travel in light of the coronavirus pandemic. Read more View the full article

IJP Architects and structural engineer AKT II have unveiled visuals for a two-storey bridge that will be built beside Santiago Calatrava's Dubai Creek Tower in the UAE. Read more View the full article

Cults, memes and incel culture informed The 1975's music video for their song The Birthday Party, which sees band members transformed into digital avatars. Read more View the full article

Danish architecture firm Henning Larsen has designed a 183-metre-tall skyscraper as part of its development of Cockle Bay Park on the Sydney waterfront. Read more View the full article

Furniture brand Fritz Hansen has revamped its headquarters in eastern Denmark, creating a sequence of homely spaces that cater to the diverse work methods of its employees. Read more View the full article

Last week, we announced plans for an online design week called Virtual Milan. Dezeen's founder and editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs explains why this was the wrong thing to do, and what we intend to do about it. Read more View the full article

Cardiff and Amsterdam-based design studio Smörgåsbord has developed Cymru Wales, a "nation-defining" font family that gives an accurate, digital expression to the Cymraeg language for the first time. Read more View the full article

Architecture studio Jordi Hidalgo Tané has extended a small stone building in rural Navarra, Spain, with a subterranean concrete annex accessed via a glass corridor. Read more View the full article

Large stretches of glass front this black house in San Francisco, which local firm Michael Hennessey Architecture designed to exhibit alternatives to "conventional building strategies". Read more View the full article

US shoe company Rothy's has launched handbags that it claims are made from 100 per cent recycled materials. Read more View the full article

In this week's comments update, readers can't fathom why Melania Trump felt it a good time to show plans for the US presidential residence's new tennis pavilion. Read more View the full article

Rem Koolhaas' Countryside, The Future exhibition at Solomon R Guggenheim is more about the architect's shortcomings rather than the countryside, argues architecture critic Inga Saffron. Read more View the full article

Experience designer Bompas & Parr has launched a design competition to rethink hand sanitisers to encourage hand-washing during the coronavirus pandemic while raising money for charity. Read more View the full article

NYCxDesign events have been postponed from May until October due to the US outbreak of coronavirus, while the awards will be held virtually. Read more View the full article

Madrid-based designer Jorge Penadés has designed and fabricated a colourful shop for Spanish footwear brand Camper from simple perforated metal profiles. Read more View the full article

The Creative Industries Federation has criticised the UK government's decision not to ban group gatherings due to coronavirus, as it could restrict the ability of creative organisations to claim compensation. Read more View the full article

The inquiry into the Grenfell Tower fire has been paused because attendees would be at "unacceptable risk" from coronavirus. Read more View the full article

Architcture practice. LUO Studio has extended the abandoned foundations and concrete columns of a residential project with a timber-framed upper storey to create a community centre in Yuanheguan, China. Read more View the full article

The small piece of plastic that saves a pizza from being touched by its box has been made into a human-sized table by IKEA in collaboration with restaurant chain Pizza Hut. Read more View the full article

WOHA has revealed its plans to overhaul a polluted wasteland in Dhaka, Bangladesh, to create a public park and facilities for BRAC University. Read more View the full article

There are just two weeks left to save 20 per cent on entry fees for Dezeen Awards 2020. Enter your project, product or studio now at just £80 per category. Read more View the full article