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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

A panoramic view of the harbour is mirrored onto a PVC ceiling at this apartment in Tel Aviv by Paritzki & Liani Architects. (more…) View the full article

New Zealand architects Studio Pacific have created public toilets shaped like headless dinosaurs in Wellington (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

News: Apple‘s senior vice president of industrial design Jonathan Ive is to design a camera for German brand Leica, reports PetaPixel. (more…) View the full article

British artist Jeremy Hutchison will open a pop-up shop selling completely useless objects at a London gallery this December. (more…) View the full article

Huge rectangular holes puncture the walls and ceilings of this four-storey split-level house in Tokyo by Hiroyuki Shinozaki Architects, the next window of our A-Zdvent calendar. Read more about House T » View the full article

Cologne 2013: squishy stools shaped like animals and a family of multi-storey glass jars are among the objects designed for an exhibition during last week's interior design event Passagen in Cologne (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Dutch design studio Tjep. has developed a concept for a self-sufficient retreat with a facade that opens like a cupboard and a moving "solar tree" on the roof (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article