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Sinks that look like water troughs and rustic plaster walls feature within this spartan UAE cafe recently completed by design studio Bone. Read more View the full article

Russian studio Niko Architect has sunk a Teletubby-style house underneath an artificial hill punctuated by conical skylights that pop out of its planted roof. Read more View the full article

Artist Danielle Baskin has set up Resting Risk Face, a company that will print user's faces on masks so they can use facial recognition technology while wearing them. Read more View the full article

As China recorded its first day with no new coronavirus cases, architecture and design studios in the country have said they are gradually returning to normality. Read more View the full article

Container ships could be converted into giant hospitals that could sail to cities most impacted by coronavirus, under a proposal by UK architecture studio Weston Williamson + Partners. Read more View the full article

VDF products fair: Paradise is one of the bright floral patterns launched by New York design studio Superflower as part of its Florescence wallpaper collection. Read more View the full article

With just 20 days to go until entries for Dezeen Awards 2020 close, there's limited time left to enter one of our studio categories at a lower price! Read more View the full article

VDF products fair: British design brand Tom Dixon and Austrian manufacturer Prolicht have launched Code, a new collection of stripped-back LED track lights that expose the intricacies of electronics. Read more View the full article

Architectural photographer Roland Halbe has sent us his photographs of a social housing project in Madrid by Spanish office Estudio Entresitio. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

VDF studio profiles: Buckley Gray Yeoman is an employee-owned London architecture studio known for its imaginative conversion and restoration projects. Read more View the full article

We’ve teamed up with London restaurant Canteen to offer our readers the chance to win one of five copies of Great British Food – the eatery’s first collection of British recipes. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

To coincide with the Less and More exhibition about the work of German designer Dieter Rams that opens tomorrow in Frankfurt, Dezeen have got together with furniture brand Vitsœ to give away five signed posters showing Rams’s ten principles of good design. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeenwire: Jonathan Glancey reviews London’s recently-opened Strata tower, the world’s first skyscraper with built-in wind turbines - Guardian </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Danish bicycle company Biomega launch two new bikes today, one by London designer Ross Lovegrove and the other by Danish design collective KiBiSi. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This clothing store in Tel Aviv by Z-A Studio of New York features items displayed on a pegboard that runs to the ceiling of the double-height space. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Japanese studio Apollo Architects & Associates have completed a house in Tokyo, Japan, featuring a white rendered volume sitting on top of a concrete base and no exterior windows. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

British architects NEX have designed this cubed timber pavilion for the Chelsea Flower Show in London with the same structural form as a leaf. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Architectural photographer Roland Halbe has sent us some images of this town hall in Spain by Madrid architects Mansilla+Tuñón that is composed of overlapping circular discs. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

One year ago OMA, Foster + Partners and local firm Rocco Design Architects were competing to to create a master plan for the West Kowloon Cultural District in Hong Kong. Foster + Partners won in the end, as reported in March this year. Our most popular story was a house in Indonesia by Aboday with a concrete slide connecting the bedroom and kitchen, which turned out to be our most popular story of the whole year. If you prefer slides to stairs you can see more of them here. Meanwhile Ross Lovegrove unveiled his bicycle for Biomega, graduate designer José Ferrufino made a magical musical box with swaying ears of barley and Zeinstra van Gelderen architecten made a…

Scroll on for all the latest from our recruitment site Dezeen Jobs, including positions with furniture brand Vitsoe and designers Heatherwick Studio, plus this is the last chance to apply for roles with MAD, Tom Dixon, Universal Design Studio and more… (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Wire: a system that extracts moisture from air like a desert-dwelling beetle has won this year’s James Dyson Award for students working on innovative engineering solutions. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Here’s a selection of projects by Dutch architect Herman Hertzberger, who was named as this year’s Royal Gold Medal recipient this morning. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Check out the latest issue of Dezeen Mail for all the best stories and comments from Dezeen, including a memorial to witches by Peter Zumthor, a car park by Zaha Hadid, Google’s new headquarters and a new London bus by Thomas Heatherwick. There’s also an update from Dezeen Wire, the latest movies on Dezeen Screen, all our new competitions and jobs, plus news on our latest pop-ups. Take a look at it here. Dezeen Mail is sent out every couple of weeks and you can subscribe here. </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This tiny gabled pharmacy is squeezed into a narrow alleyway between two towering apartment blocks in Osaka. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Slideshow: a sizeable hole in the roof of this gabled house in Oita, Japan, allows residents to climb outside and survey their surroundings. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article