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Chinese architect Sun Dayong has created a conceptual design for a shield that would protect a wearer during a coronavirus outbreak by using UV light to sterilise itself. Read more View the full article

South Korean designer Sun Lee has created a six-piece collection of clothing from traditional Korean paper which has been cut, torn and rolled by hand. Read more View the full article

Tokyo architects Norihiko Dan and Associates have completed this visitor centre on the shore of Sun Moon Lake in Taiwan. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Vienna Design Week 2016: London design studio Fredrikson Stallard has brought its glimmering Prologue installation to Vienna's baroque Belvedere Palace (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Resting a broom on its bristles can damage them so graduate designer Joseph Guerra has made one with a pivoting head. (more…) View the full article

Japanese architects Ikeda Yukie have completed a house with rounded edges for an elderly couple. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

VDF products fair: The Sundae seating collection, created by Australian designer Jason Ju for DesignByThem, features chubby, marshmallow-like curves that envelop its occupier. Read more View the full article

Japanese architect Hironaka Ogawa designed this rural house in Kagawa like a sundial, with a south-facing tower that casts shadows across a grassy courtyard (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Chinese artist Ai Weiwei has covered the floor of the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern in London with more than 100 million individually handmade replica sunflower seeds. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

US designers Yitan Sun and Jianshi Wu have proposed transforming Manhattan's Central Park into a sunken landscape encircled by a below-grade megastructure with office, housing, retail and cultural space. (more…) View the full article

This bridge across the moat of a historic Dutch fort leads visitors below the water’s surface without getting them wet. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This house in London by local studio De Matos Ryan sits within a sunken courtyard, surrounded by a secret flower garden (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

A network of sunken basins and water-purifying planting has been developed by landscape studio SLA and engineering firm Ramboll to help avert flooding in a Copenhagen neighbourhood (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Rise Design Studio has sunk a weathered steel-clad extension in the garden of a London house as a sanctuary from the UK's Brexit-dominated political climate. Read more View the full article

An intricate three-dimensional lattice of narrow timber slats forms a cloud-like mass around the exterior of this pineapple cake shop in Tokyo by Japanese architect Kengo Kuma (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Kengo Kuma's SunnyHills cake shop illustrates how the architect interprets the Japanese vernacular, according to YouTuber Martin van der Linden in the first of a series of videos from Tokyo shared with Virtual Design Festival. Read more View the full article

This installation by Leo Lindroos from Finnish architecture firm MOOK mimics the warm orange glow of a sunset to send viewers into a relaxed and sleepy state by boosting their melatonin levels. (more…) View the full article

This holiday home on the southern coast of Nova Scotia perches on a row of narrow concrete fins just metres from the Atlantic Ocean (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

A covered courtyard has been inserted into the side of this Kurashiki house by Japanese firm TT Architects (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Japanese designer Yota Kakuda has combined industrial and citrus tones in his interior design for Bake Kitasenju, a cheese tart shop in Tokyo (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

The best of rigid and flexible solar panels combine in SunUp, a product for outdoor adventurers invented by Brunel University design graduate Bradley Brister. Read more View the full article

A curving chasm slices off the corner of this showroom building in western Tokyo to create a passageway to its entrance. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

The entire contents of this shop and cafe in Vienna can be hidden away behind a grid of white ceramic tiles. (more...) View the full article

This piece of furniture by Scoope Design can switch between a chair, table or step ladder depending on how it's slotted together. (more...) View the full article

Thai company BeeConscious has created wraps from beeswax-coated cotton, that can stand in for cling film and other plastic packaging for food. Read more