Santiago studio Guillermo Acuña Arquitectos Asociados has separated a rural house near the ocean in Chile into a pair of elevated structures topped with grooved-metal roofs. More
Readers are debating Michael Ford's statement that architects who want to really impact the fight for racial equality should stop designing jails and prisons, and sharing their thoughts on other top stories in this week's comments update. More
Band-Aid is launching a range of bandages in light and dark shades of black and brown to make its products more racially inclusive. More
Recycled plastic, clear acrylic and voluptuously layered foam feature in three texture-heavy collections by Sydney studio DesignByThem, which are being showcased as part of the VDF products fair. More
VDF products fair: The Fenster seating collection by DesignByThem takes cues from traditional crittall windows and sees transparent acrylic offset against a metal frame. More
VDF products fair: The Sundae seating collection, created by Australian designer Jason Ju for DesignByThem, features chubby, marshmallow-like curves that envelop its occupier. More
VDF products fair: Sydney studio DesignByThem is celebrating the natural texture of recycled plastic via a speckled, multi-coloured furniture collection called Confetti. More
Lee Broom spoke to Dezeen in a live Screentime discussion as part of Virtual Design Festival's collaboration with the British designer. More
Fenwick-Iribarren Architects and Pattern Design have unveiled the Education City Stadium near Doha, which is the third and largest of the venues for the FIFA 2022 World Cup in Qatar to be completed so far. More
We need to provoke discussion, not anger, when it comes to talking about diversity, says Michelle Ogundehin, who shares her personal experiences with racism, views on positive discrimination and ways in which individuals can make a difference. More
Sinuous spruce-wood walls wind around this cosy cave-like suite that Tenon Architecture has created for a resort hotel in southern Greece. More
Plastics will be replaced within ten years by biofabricated materials that eliminate waste and pollution, according to Parley for the Oceans founder Cyrill Gutsch. More
Buildings adapted to marine environments and paper structures designed for funeral ceremonies are among the sustainability-focused architecture proposals in this VDF school show by Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD). More
Dezeen's Virtual Design Festival teamed up with Shanghai furniture brand Stellar Works on a panel discussion with designers Neri&Hu and Space Copenhagen, who talked about merging Eastern and Western design traditions. More
This year's London Design Festival will go ahead as scheduled in September, but with a more local focus and greater online activity in response to the Covid-19 pandemic. More
A chair grown from fungi and hemp and ceramics inspired by occult rituals are among the design pieces presented by The Mindcraft Project for VDF. More
caPale timber partitions were used to transform a 180-year-old barn in Spain into an office space for and by studio Nordest Arquitectura. More
