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A drawing of an imaginary fairyland was Wutopia Lab's starting point for the design of this kids cafe, which is located in Dalian, China. Read more View the full article

This week we've hand-picked four exciting positions on Dezeen Jobs for industrial and product designers, including vacancies at design studios Industrial Facility and Stellar Works. Read more View the full article

A row of heritage-listed townhouses in central London is now home to the Inhabit hotel, which Holland Harvey has designed to have relaxed, Scandi-inspired interiors. Read more View the full article

Marcos Zotes, co-director of Basalt Architects, explains how the firm's work explores Iceland's tradition of geothermal bathing in this livestream from Stockholm Furniture Fair. Read more View the full article

OMA has revealed its plans to renovate and extend three vacant railway buildings in Brussels to create an office for Belgium train operator SNCB. 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

Dyson has created 44 engineering and science activities for children to try out while at home during the coronavirus pandemic, from making a balloon-powered car to building a bridge from spaghetti. Read more View the full article

Daily coronavirus briefing: today's architecture and design coronavirus briefing includes hacks for hands-free door opening, the Serpentine Pavilion postponement and the widths of New York's sidewalks. Read more View the full article

Large offices will become a thing of the past according to interior designer Sevil Peach, who predicts that corporate towers will be replaced by smaller hubs as staff work from home offices and co-working spaces as a result of coronavirus. Read more View the full article

In the second part of our VDF collaboration with film-makers Laura Mark and Jim Stephenson, we screen the first episode of the duo's Practice series, in which architect Piers Taylor of Invisible Studio explains why he built his own house in the woods. Read more View the full article

We’ve teamed up with music and arts enterprise The Vinyl Factory to give away three deluxe triple-gatefold vinyl box-sets of UK band Massive Attack’s latest album Heligoland, with artwork by band member Robert del Naja. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

VDF products fair: The AR-Studio app by Jung uses augmented reality to help users visualise its range of products and fittings within an interior space. Read more View the full article

Milan 2010: another chair with a face. Italian designer Fabio Novembre presents giant masks for sitting in. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

UK designer Luke Twigger has created a range of skull-shaped containers with cushions for brains. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Sjölander da Cruz Architects of Birmingham have completed this shelter at a park on a former wasteland in Amington, UK. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Antonio Ravalli Architetti’s hostel where guests sleep in fabric pods was our most-clicked story this week so here’s a selection of stories from the Dezeen archive featuring fabric interiors. See all the stories » </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeenwire: Design Museum curator Alex Newson gives a tour of key projects in the Brit Insurance Designs of the Year 2011 exhibition, which opens at the museum today, in this BBC News movie. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Competition: we’ve teamed up with illustration magazine WRAP to give away five copies of their latest issue that’s designed so every page can be re-used as wrapping paper. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

An explosion created these stools by Israeli designer Guy Mishaly. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

London Design Festival 2011: Timber Wave is a three-storey-high red-oak sculpture, installed outside the V&A museum for the London Design Festival. Watch an interview with architect Amanda Levete and festival director Ben Evans, plus a movie about the manufacturing the complex structure on Dezeen Screen » </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

A stripy wall of light glows behind diners at this Milan restaurant by Italian architect Roberto Murgia. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Five years ago, when Dezeen was just three weeks old, Thomas Heatherwick’s East Beach Cafe was still taking shape on the English south coast, Zaha Hadid presented a range of Seamless furniture at Phillips de Pury & Company in New York and The Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston released images of its new waterfront cultural centre by Diller Scofidio + Renfro. See all our stories from December 2006 » </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This 60 metre-long metal bridge is a route for heating and power pipes, rather than people. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Milan 2012: Auckland company Resident show their new collection of furniture at MOST in Milan this week, including their Bing pendant lamp that’s made of white clay from Matauri Bay in New Zealand. (more…) View the full article

Hexagonal tiles create honeycomb-patterned floors inside this nineteenth century Italian house refurbished by architects Grooppo. (more…) View the full article