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Readers are debating Herzog & de Meuron and Quadrangle's plans for a super-skinny skyscraper in Toronto and sharing their thoughts on other top stories in this week's comments update. Read more View the full article

Architects should stop designing jails and prisons, which are representations of systemic racism in the US, if they want to really impact the fight for racial equality, says Michael Ford. Read more View the full article

Designers Ini Archibong and Chrissa Amuah will speak to Dezeen in a live Screentime conversation sponsored by Philips TV & Sound as part of Virtual Design Festival today. Tune in from 4:30pm UK time. Read more View the full article

US architecture firm William Kaven Architecture has stepped a black house with expansive balconies down a wooded ground to overlook an Oregon forest. Read more View the full article

Architecture students in four different year groups at the University of Kentucky College of Design present projects in this VDF school show. Read more View the full article

H&P Architects has designed the AgriNesture house in Vietnam to have a large space for agriculture so that its owners can grow their own food. Read more View the full article

A century-old tree soars up through the roof of this restaurant in Beijing, which C+ Architects has decked out with rammed-earth tiles, travertine and timber. Read more View the full article

Over a quarter of black architects in the UK deal with racism in the workplace as discrimination becomes "widespread", a survey from the Architects' Journal has shown. Read more View the full article

Rod White, chief designer at Philips TV & Sound, discusses the electronics brand's new collection of portable audio accessories with Georg Jensen in this talk produced by Dezeen for the brand as part Virtual Design Festival. Tune in at 12:00pm UK time. Read more View the full article

VDF products fair: The glossy Lume surface tile range is designed by flooring manufacturer Marazzi as a celebration of traditional Italian ceramics. Read more View the full article

This Virtual Design Festival school show features work by nine design students from the Cranbrook Academy of Art, including an AR headset that gamifies everyday life and an aluminium light that embodies fairytale narratives. Read more View the full article

A "bed-cabinet", kitchen island and boxed-in bathroom help organise the floor plan of the Spinmolenplein penthouse in Ghent designed by Jürgen Vandewalle. Read more View the full article

Jak Studio has redesigned the conventional L-shaped sofa to suit the "home workplace of the future", enabling it to be altered from seating or a bed into a work pod. Read more View the full article

The winners of the AHEAD Americas awards will be announced tomorrow in a virtual ceremony broadcast on Dezeen as part of Virtual Design Festival. Read more View the full article

British sculptor Jason deCaires Taylor has sunk the Coral Greenhouse to the seabed in Australia so its cement and steel frame can be a habitat for marine life. Read more View the full article

New York designer Athena Calderone has renovated her mid-century home in the Long Island town of Amagansett with plaster walls, linen fabric, marble and second-hand finds. Read more View the full article

The coronavirus pandemic will force design brands to manufacture more products locally, hold less stock and be less reliant on physical stores, according to designer Tom Dixon. Read more View the full article

This year's Art Basel and the Design Miami/Basel collectors fair, which were postponed from June to September, have now been cancelled altogether due to coronavirus. Read more View the full article

Architecture firm ODA has designed a residential building in downtown Seattle that splits in half to create an elevated private park. Read more View the full article

To mark World Oceans Day, VDF collaborates with environmental organisation Parley for the Oceans to host a live Screentime conversation with its founder Cyrill Gutsch. Watch the broadcast from 6pm UK time. Read more View the full article

VDF products fair: Nine spindly portraits of imaginary characters feature on the Silhouette rugs that Jaime Hayon has designed for Nanimarquina. Read more View the full article

Vacation pods in a climate change-stricken New York and a money-laundering bank for the Japanese government are among the concepts presented here by Carleton University's MArch students in this VDF school show. Read more View the full article

Architect Arthur Mamou-Mani will give Dezeen readers a virtual reality tour of his Catharsis temple, created for this year's Burning Man festival, on VDF today. Tune in from 4:00pm UK time. Read more View the full article

Dezeen's Virtual Design Festival will be extended for an additional 10 days until 10 July due to demand from brands that want to participate. Read more View the full article

As part of today's VDF collaboration with Arthur Mamou-Mani, the French architect speaks about his Galaxia temple at the 2018 Burning Man festival and shares previously unseen aerial footage of it. Read more View the full article