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From designing face shields and flat-pack intensive care units to 3D-printing hands-free door levers and converting buildings to hospitals, architects and designers are tackling the coronavirus pandemic. Here are five ways they are helping. Read more View the full article

Virtual Design Festival's products fair has launched today, with Danish brand Muuto using the platform to launch seven new products including designs by TAF, Cecilie Manz and Anderssen & Voll. Read more View the full article

UK studio Curl la Tourelle Head has designed a concept for tent classrooms that would allow students to return to schools while maintaining social distancing guidelines. Read more View the full article

There are only four days left to enter Dezeen Awards 2020. To help you with your entry, we've asked some of our judges what they’ll be looking for in this year's submissions. Read more View the full article

Rather belatedly, here’s a pavilion designed by Beijing studio HHD_FUN for Shanghai, with a surface composed of triangles, divided and divided again in a fractal pattern. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This Virtual Design Festival school show features work by industrial design students from the Zurich University of the Arts, including a deceptive VR experience and a handbook that addresses waste in design. Read more View the full article

Riddel Architecture of Queensland demolished a house in Brisbane, Australia, and then built a new home out of the salvaged materials. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Shanghai Expo 2010: architectural photographer Roland Halbe has sent us some interior shots of the Danish Pavilion at Shanghai Expo 2010, designed by Bjarke Ingels Group. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Spanish architect Alejandro Munoz Miranda’s kindergarten in Granada is designed for children up to three years old and has windows in rainbow colours. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

London Design Festival 2010: Mark Holmes of Minimalux has launched a new collection of products including a stainless steel knife and spork, a silver and cork pill container (above) and an aluminium mobile. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

London Design Festival 2011: Dezeen filmed this interview with Bruno Allard, UK managing director of French brand Ligne Roset, to coincide with the Telling Tales exhibition at the Ligne Roset Westend showroom. Watch the movie » </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Brazilian designers Fernando and Humberto Campana and architects SuperLimão Studio have covered the facade of a São Paulo furniture showroom with thousands of plant-filled vases. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

A wooden plank extends through the walls of three rooms in this renovated Tokyo apartment by architects htmn. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

A giant zinc-plated ribbon folds in and out between the floors of this Antwerp office extension for metal refiner Umicore. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Italian designer Simone Simonelli presented three little mobile storage units in Milan last month. (more…) View the full article

Movie: Thomas Heatherwick talks to Dezeen about his design for a riverboat in France in this interview filmed by Dezeen at Heatherwick’s ongoing exhibition at the V&A museum in London. (more…) View the full article

These tools by Royal College of Art graduate Cheng Guo are controlled by simple mouth movements like chewing and blowing (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

Steps built into the kitchen counter lead up to a suspended staircase in this Melbourne house by Australian architects Edwards Moore. (more…) View the full article

London Design Festival: hundreds of intricate models by emerging Japanese architect Akihisa Hirata are pinned onto the looping walls of this installation at the Architecture Foundation in London (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Job of the week this week is a position as an interior designer at Universal Design Studio in London. For more roles in architecture and design see our full selection of positions at Dezeen Jobs. (more…) View the full article

A lattice of extruded aluminium sections evokes images of the brickwork in Beijing’s old neighbourhoods at this luxury boutique by Kengo Kuma and Associates (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

A house named after its Z-shaped roof, designed by Hohyun Park and Hyunjoo Kim for the top of a steep hill near Seoul, is behind the last door on our Christmas A-Zdvent calendar. Read more about Z-house » View the full article

Products are displayed amongst an array of colourful metal wireframes at this pharmacy in Madrid by interiors studio Stone Designs (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Dezeen promotion: lighting designer Ulrike Brandi is offering a series of lighting design classes for students and professionals this year in Hamburg, Germany, including guest lecturers from Snøhetta and MVRDV. (more...) View the full article

Dezeen and MINI World Tour: Google Creative Lab creative director Alexander Chen explains how he created a digital string you can pluck like a viola and discusses Google Glass and the future of user interface design in this movie we filmed at Design Indaba in Cape Town last month. (more...) View the full article