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Dutch Design Week will go ahead in October but with digital activities replacing most of the physical events due to coronavirus, organisers have announced. Read more View the full article

Week nine of Virtual Design Festival opens with a virtual-reality tour with architect Arthur Mamou-Mani, who will show us around VR versions of his Catharsis and Galaxia buildings created for the Burning Man festival. Read more View the full article

The late entry deadline for Dezeen Awards 2020 ends on 9 June at 23:59 UK time. This is your last chance to enter your projects and your studio this year! Read more View the full article

A bubblegum-pink corridor and a forest green kitchen feature inside this Bilbao apartment, which architecture studio Azab has brightened up with bold hues. Read more View the full article

French studio Dominique Coulon & Associés has built a covered market alongside an exhibition area, workshops for creatives and a concrete cafe in a former distillery in Schiltigheim. Read more View the full article

An angular roof spans across this white house designed by architecture firm Studio Saxe in a remote part of Costa Rica. Read more View the full article

Paraguayan studio Gabinete de Arquitectura has built a structure for composting at Casa Wab arts centre that Tadao Ando designed in Oaxaca, Mexico. Read more View the full article

Architecture studio Atelier Vens Vanbelle has built a Corten steel guesthouse with a watchtower in Uitbergen, Belgium, for a client in the film business. Read more View the full article

The two-floor extension that Studio Bright has added to this Edwardian family home in Melbourne includes fun features like a theatre-style sitting room and a pool that resembles a Roman bath. Read more View the full article

Royal College of Art student Thomas Gossner has rethought the design of public, space-saving fold-out chairs, creating a swing-like seat made from a single sheet of thermoplastic. Read more View the full article

The Philadelphia Inquirer has apologised for a headline equating the loss of black lives with damage to buildings during protests over the killing of George Floyd in police custody. Read more View the full article

Miami's Magaldi Studio used charred wood and dark stone to blend this boxy house "as a shadow in the green surroundings" of Valle de Bravo, Mexico. Read more View the full article

American firm Feldman Architecture has inserted a glass pavilion between two white stucco volumes to form this residence in San Jose, California. Read more View the full article

Week eight of Virtual Design Festival featured a programme curated by Milan design platform Alcova and interviews with Ilse Crawford and Farshid Moussavi, plus a full-day takeover by Stockholm's ArkDes museum. Read more View the full article

Furniture designers are ditching the skinny look for plump forms that appear to have been pumped full of air. In our latest roundup, we look at 10 designs that represent the trend. Read more View the full article

This week, international creatives rallied in response to the Black Lives Matter movement and readers remembered the work of artist Christo, who passed away. Read more View the full article

Grimshaw has revealed the design for an arts complex on the Santa Monica College campus that will comprise three volumes linked by open-air plazas. Read more View the full article

Concerns about the impact of coronavirus on businesses have begun to "soften", according to a survey by the American Society of Interior Designers, which found many professionals expect work to return to normal within six months. Read more View the full article

Digital artist Débora Silva has created a series of 3D scans of people who took part in the Black Lives Matter protest in London's Hyde Park on Wednesday, following the death of George Floyd in police custody. Read more View the full article

Architect Farshid Moussavi will speak to Dezeen in a live Screentime interview sponsored by Enscape as part of Virtual Design Festival. Watch the broadcast from 3:00pm UK time. Read more View the full article

A renewable energy facility, underwater farms and buildings designed to restore and empower communities are among the 10 students projects in this VDF school show curated by Drury University's Hammons School of Architecture. Read more View the full article

Designer Adam Nathaniel Furman has picked out 10 projects that represent the New London Fabulous movement of "designers who resolutely seek out beauty, complexity and joy". Read more View the full article

The coronavirus pandemic will not kill the office, but we will see some striking changes when we return to work, says Helen Berresford, head of Sheppard Robson's interiors studio. Read more View the full article

Keilhauer president Mike Keilhauer and designer Geof Lilge introduce bent-metal furniture brand Division Twelve in this video produced by Dezeen for the furniture manufacturer. Read more View the full article

A faux leather top made from pig's blood and shoes made from repurposed lederhosen are among 15 contemporary Austrian accessories and fashion designs being shown at VDF's products fair by the Austrianfashion.net initiative. Read more View the full article