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Architecture practice Studio Vural has envisioned a seaside holiday dwelling that is carved into sand dunes and operates without relying on public utilities. Read more View the full article

The American Institute of Architects' annual conference, which was set to feature Virgil Abloh as keynote speaker, has been postponed this year following US outbreaks of coronavirus. Read more View the full article

Architects and critics have hit out at threats to close London's parks amid the coronavirus pandemic, with one describing it as "collective punishment". Read more View the full article

Finnish studio Toni Yli-Suvanto Architects has created a timber pavilion that functions both as a sauna and a hub for social activities. Read more View the full article

Designers Michael Godmer and Mathieu Turgeon's home in Montreal features contemporary Danish pieces alongside oak, terracotta and marble. Read more View the full article

A screened porch is sandwiched between two cedar volumes to form this holiday home that the founders of Berman Horn Studio in New York built themselves on an island in Maine. Read more View the full article

VDF products fair: The Val collection by Konstantin Grcic for Swiss manufacturer Laufen consists of flexible and dynamic designs that rethink the proportions of bathrooms. Read more View the full article

Milan 2010: at the Salone Internazionale del Mobile in Milan this week furniture brand Vitra present a strap designed by Chilean architect Alejandro Aravena to be wrapped around the body and used instead of a chair. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Norwegian designers Vibeke Skar and Ida Noemi Vidal presented ceramic pendant lights with embossed surfaces in the Ventura Lambrate district of Milan last month. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeenwire: Spanish architects are still suffering most in Europe as a result of the economic crisis according to a report by Rotterdam research agency Arch-Vision. See below. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Featured category: for the summer season we’ve created a new architecture category, grouping together all our stories about pavilions. Happy browsing! Featured category: pavilions Above: Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2010 by Jean Nouvel. Photograph is by Julien Lanoo </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Spanish architect Andrés Jaque has completed this house on a sloping site in Ibiza with a jumble of cascading terraces supported on stilts. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeenwire: designer Thomas Heatherwick is to be awarded the London Design Medal 2010 at a ceremony in London tonight. See press release below. See all our stories about Heatherwick » See all our stories about London Design Festival 2010 » (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Trees sprout out of the rainbow-coloured cubes that make up the facade of this bank in northern Tokyo – the fourth building that architect Emmanuelle Moureaux has designed for Sugamo Shinkin (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

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Dezeenwire: New York Times design critic Alice Rawsthorne discusses German graphic designer Gerd Arntz, who developed the influential Isotype system of graphic symbols in the 1920s and who is the subject of an exhibition at the V&A museum in London. Read the New York Times article. Isotype: international picture language is at the V&A until 13 March. </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Australian designer Marc Newson has designed an hourglass for watch brand Ikepod, which contains tiny stainless steel balls in place of sand. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Milan 2011: UK designer Benjamin Hubert presented this ash chair for Italian brand Casamania at the Salone Internazionale del Mobile in Milan last week. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Waiting rooms inside this red-striped health centre by architect Miguel Barahona overlook the Sierra de Gardor mountains in southern Spain. (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 us at Dezeen, Martin Budnizki Design Studio and Architonic, plus this is the last chance to apply for roles with Anglepoise, Carpenters Workshop Gallery and more… (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Chairs that double up as ladders, clotheshorses, shelves or lamps are part of a collection of furniture by Korean designer Seung-Yong Song. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Japanese designers Nendo will present new additions to their 1% products in Milan this April, including this tea set where the lids double as spinning tops. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Milan 2012: Austrian designer Robert Stadler will present a bookshelf that separates the books you’ve finished from those you haven’t read yet at Galleria Nilufar in Milan next week. (more…) View the full article

Two laminated plywood shells slot together to form this chair by Berlin designer David Geckeler without any metal fixings. (more…) View the full article

Movie: we take a walk through the Steven Holl-designed Daeyang Gallery and House in South Korea in this second movie by architectural filmmakers Spirit of Space. (more…) View the full article