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A group of students are petitioning London's Royal College of Art to delay their final degree show due to the coronavirus outbreak, rather than having an online-only version. Read more View the full article

Do you want to explore interesting ways to tell the story of your brand or products? We can collaborate on a digital talk, discussion, video or another bespoke content idea as part of Virtual Design Festival. Read more View the full article

Ruben van Megen invites users to co-create the Sandcastles homeware, which is launching for the VDF x Ventura Projects collaboration. Read more View the full article

In the fifth week of the Virtual Design Festival, we interviewed Standard Architecture and Sauerbruch Hutton, as well as launching an exclusive series of videos about Archigram. Read more View the full article

In this Virtual Design Festival school show, architecture and design graduates from Spain's IE University share projects ranging from a delivery robot to the branding for a fictitious dictatorship. Read more View the full article

Eindhoven designers Edhv have created a series of posters by tracking the movements of insects. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Gaetano Pesce implores young designers to consider how to address social issues through their work, which he says has a greater capacity to communicate with people than art, in our latest collaboration with Friedman Benda for VDF. Watch from 11:00am UK time. Read more View the full article

Venice Architecture Biennale 2010: a wooden 1:10 scale model representing a portion of the London 2012 Olympic stadium has been installed at the British Pavilion directed by muf architecture/art for the Venice Architecture Biennale. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

London Studio Doshi Levien have designed this min-spa for Italian brand Glass Idromassaggio. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Architects Bjorn Gudbrandsson and Egill Guðmundsson of Reykjavik firm Arkís have completed the Icelandic Institute of Natural History. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

We’ve teamed up with architects Foster + Partners to offer readers the chance to win one of three pairs of tickets to see documentary film How Much Does Your Building Weigh, Mr Foster? at the ICA in London on Saturday, 29 February. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Here’s a house in Osaka, Japan, by Yoshihara McKee Architects of New York and Tokyo. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Austrian designer Marco Dessí will present a collection of furniture made from folded and tubular steel in Milan next week. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Austrian design studio LAAC Architekten and Stiefel Kramer Architecture have completed this public plaza in Innsbruck, Austria, with an undulating concrete surface. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Paris landscape designers TN Plus and architects Beckmann N’Thépe have designed a zoological park on a series of artificial islands for the outskirts of St Petersburg. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

We’ve made a few changes to Dezeen which hopefully will make it easier for people to navigate the site and find what they want, without detracting from the clarity and simplicity of our layout. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Garments hang from the recycled parts of four bicycles inside a sustainable clothing shop in Stuttgart. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This week Dezeen have been at the London Design Festival, where we opened Dezeen Space in Shoreditch and officially launched the Dezeen Book of Ideas. Thanks to everyone who’s stopped by so far! Ron Arad was presented with the London Design Medal 2011, Tom Dixon hosted a discussion on the state of manufacturing in Britain and Marcel Wanders launched a range of products for British retailer Marks & Spencer. Other attractions include David Chipperfield’s metallic glass pavilions on the Southbank and greenhouse made of Lego in Covent Garden. Meanwhile the Firstsite arts centre by Rafael Viñoly has opened in Colchester and a concrete house in Sri Lanka by T…

Dezeen is five years old this week! In the first of a series of stories celebrating our anniversary, Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs selects his five most memorable stories of the past five years: (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

The Temporium: each piece in this jewellery collection by London designers Logical Art conceals a USB memory stick. They’re on sale at our Christmas shop The Temporium until 24 December. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen archive: one of our most controversial stories this week was a strikingly red psychiatric centre, so we’ve grouped together all of our stories about bright red architecture. See all the stories » See all our archive stories » </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Designed in Hackney will showcase world-class architecture and design created in the borough, which is one of the five host boroughs for the London 2012 Olympic Games as well as being home to Dezeen’s offices. Each day from tomorrow until the games this summer, Dezeen will publish buildings, interiors and objects that have been designed in Hackney, creating a unique guide to the borough’s rich and diverse design community. The showcase can be accessed via www.designedinhackney.com. If you’re a Hackney designer or architect and you’d like your work featured, please drop us a line with “Designed in Hackney” in the subject line. The Designed in Hackney logo has been …

Windows are set within two-metre-deep recesses in the stone walls of this castle visitor centre in southwest Germany by Swiss architect Max Dudler. (more…) View the full article

As The Shard nears completion in London, here is the transcript of an interview conducted with architect Renzo Piano before work started on the 300 metre-high tower. (more…) View the full article

The windows of this scientific research centre in Stuttgart by Dutch architects UNStudio are lined up like rows of dominoes set to topple. (more…) View the full article