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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

Fashion designer Roksanda Illinčic describes how she learned about dressmaking by slicing up her mother's designer outfits, in the latest episode of Dezeen's Face to Face podcast. Read more View the full article

To lessen the threat of spreading the coronavirus designers are creating door-handle adapters that remove the need for direct contact. Here are five of the most interesting door-handle hacks. Read more View the full article

Design studio Space Popular has created a gallery in virtual reality for the Architectural Association, plus today's other design and architecture-related coronavirus news. Read more View the full article

VDF products fair: Lighting designer David Trubridge has reissued his range of Cloud lights with a more sustainable design that replaces plastic with bamboo. Read more View the full article

Dutch artists Studio Job designed the scenography for the Fall/Winter 2010 collection by fashion designers Viktor & Rolf, premiered earlier this month in Paris. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen promotion: metal chain-link manufacturer Kriskadecor aims to help shared places like offices and hotels adjust to the "new normal" after coronavirus with space dividers made from aluminium links. Read more View the full article

Milan 2010: Dutch designer Marcel Wanders exhibits a chair with a snarling face on its backrest at Moooi in Milan this week. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

French architect Stephan Ricci AKA Architerroriste has designed a conceptual house shaped like a pair of binoculars and surrounded by a nest. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Brazilian architectural photographer Pedro Kok has made this black-and-white movie of the Rolex Learning Centre in Switzerland, designed by Japanese architects SANAA. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

London Design Festival 2010: this desk is one of seven new pieces to be launched by British designer Russel Pinch at 100% Design this week. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Here are some pictures of Carmody Groarke’s exhibition design for Drawing Fashion, which opened at the Design Museum in London earlier this month. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

We’ve just sent the latest issue of Dezeenmail – take a look at it here. Dezeenmail contains a selection of Dezeen’s best stories and comments, along with all our latest competitions, jobs and highlights from Dezeenwire, Dezeen Screen and Dezeen Watch Store. You can subscribe here. </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Californian designer Curtis Popp has made a series of round side tables with colourful powder-coated steel legs that pierce each table top. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Screen: designer Faye Toogood presents Assemblage 1, her first collection of furniture and lighting made of stone, brass and English sycamore, in this interview that Dezeen filmed during the London Design Festival 2010. Check out our plans for this year’s festival here. Watch the movie » </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This time last year the London Design Festival was in full swing with Kram/Weisshaar’s robotic display lighting up Trafalgar Square, Paul Cocksedge‘s giant magnetic coin crash-landing at the Southbank and Stuart Haygarth’s staircase covered in picture frames at the Victoria & Albert museum. Alasdhair Willis resigned as chief executive of Established & Sons and Thomas Heatherwick won the London Design Medal 2010. Meanwhile Marc Newson designed a range of limited-edition shoes for NIKE and Jaime Hayón launched a collection of furniture for London design brand Sé. John Pawson talked to us about an exhibition of his work at the Design Museum in one of o…

Residents have to go careful on the roof terrace of this Portuguese house, where gaping chasms drop down to basement courtyards two floors below. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Wire: winners of the remaining four completed building categories and nine future designs, celebrating projects that are still in development, have been announced at the World Architecture Festival, which is currently taking place in Barcelona. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Climbers in the Alps can now spend their nights sleeping in a tube that cantilevers over the edge of a mountain. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Industrial designer Konstantin Grcic will present this chair for German manufacturer Flötotto at trade show imm cologne in Germany next week. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Screen: in this movie filmed at the FRAC Centre in Orléans, flying robots created by Swiss architects Gramazio & Kohler and Raffaello D’Andrea assemble a six metre-high tower from polystyrene bricks. Watch the movie » </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Browse the best boutiques, bakeries, bookstores and florists from the pages of Dezeen in our latest new board on Pinterest that’s all about shops. And if that gets you in the mood for some retail therapy, head over to our very own Dezeen Watch Store online shop. We’ve got nearly 10,000 followers on Pinterest now and you can join in here. Follow Dezeen on Pinterest » See stories about shops on Dezeen » View the full article

Movie: plants take over the offices of London’s commercial district Canary Wharf in this movie by Oxford Brookes architecture graduate Richard Black. (more…) View the full article

This house in Cologne by SMO Architektur adopts two contradicting architectural theories: the open-plan lower floor references Le Corbusier’s Plan Libre, while the multi-roomed upper floor follows the principles of Adolf Loos’ Raumplan. (more…) View the full article

News: Michigan State University has unveiled the first photographs of its Zaha Hadid-designed museum of contemporary art, which opens to the public next month. (more…) View the full article