Daily coronavirus briefing: today's architecture and design coronavirus briefing includes a design for safe flying, an opinion piece from Reinier de Graaf and the Coughvid app. More about Daily coronavirus architecture and design briefing: 23 April
The Architects Climate Action Network's Save Safe Structural Timber campaign urges the UK government not to ban the use of cross-laminated timber and glulam as it could have a serious environmental impacts. More about Architects Climate Action Network launches campaign to save structural timber
With only 40 days left to enter Dezeen Awards 2020, there is still time for you get your best work seen by our star-studded jury. More about 40 days left to enter Dezeen Awards 2020 with our stellar judges lineup
Today VDF teams up with Ron Arad for the video launch of a new series of sculptural chairs – including one that commemorates Brexit – followed by a live interview with the designer at 2:00pm UK time. More about VDF and Ron Arad present an exclusive video showing the development of Arad's Don't F**k With The Mouse chairs
Mycelium pendant lamps dangle above recycled-plastic dining tables inside Silo, a zero-waste restaurant in east London designed by studio Nina+Co. More about Sustainable food and furniture features in zero-waste London restaurant Silo
Experimental clothing brand Vollebak has created a near-indestructible jacket from Dyneema – a fibre that is 15 times stronger than steel. More about Vollebak creates Indestructible Jacket
Will Gamble Architects has updated a house in west London with an extension modelled on a Japanese tea house. More about Burnt House is a charred wood extension that looks like a Japanese tea house
Rubbery doors outfit this cabinet designed by architecture studio Allthatissolid so that they stretch and form breast-like shapes when pulled open. More about Masque Thing cabinet features stretchy doors and "sumptuous" legs
While converting existing buildings into fully functioning hospitals is unfeasible, high schools and large hotels can be used as care space for coronavirus patients, says Jason Schroer, who is director of health at HKS's firm in Dallas. Here he explains how. More about "A non-healthcare building converted to a patient care space is not quite a hospital"
Our VDF collaboration with The World Around concludes with the premiere of a new film by Andrés Jaque and Ivan Munuera, which charts the global impact of coronavirus across a wide range of different scales. More about Andrés Jaque and Ivan Munuera premiere film exploring the visual landscape of Covid-19
Architect Cameron Sinclair and vegan fashion designer Mats Rombaut are joined by Facebook's director of product design Margaret Stewart in the third part of our Virtual Design Festival collaboration with The World Around for Earth Day. More about Cameron Sinclair and Facebook's Margaret Stewart feature in the third instalment of The World Around symposium
Data journalist and illustrator Mona Chalabi has unveiled a series of limited-edition prints and shared a selection of her illustrations visualising information about coronavirus as part of The World Around's takeover of Virtual Design Festival for Earth Day. More about Mona Chalabi creates Stats to Help you Breathe illustrations to take people's minds off coronavirus
El Hadi Jazairy and Rania Ghosn of collaborative architecture practice Design Earth discuss how to engage with the climate emergency in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic in this interview with architecture writer Carson Chan, which forms part of our Virtual Design Festival collaboration with The World Around for Earth Day. More about "It's hard to yearn for a return to a pre-pandemic normal" says Design Earth
Curator Aric Chen and designer Thomas Thwaites discuss their work in the second part of our Virtual Design Festival collaboration with The World Around, which also features short films by Kalyanee Mam and Apichatpong Weerasthakul. More about Part two of The World Around's Earth Day symposium features Aric Chen and Thomas Thwaites
California architect Juan Saez Pedraja has added a studio fronted with aluminium panels and cedar shades to the backyard of a remodelled Santa Monica residence. More about Saez Pedraja adds small studio to a fashion designer's Santa Monica residence
Our Virtual Design Festival collaboration with The World Around for Earth Day kicks off with a series of conversations with designers including Nelly Ben Hayoun and Nigerian architect Kunlé Adeyemi. More about Kunlé Adeyemi and Nelly Ben Hayoun feature in the first session of The World Around symposium
In this live interview, Beatrice Galilee speaks to Dezeen about the online symposium she has curated as part of Virtual Design Festival's partnership with The World Around for Earth Day. More about Live video interview with The World Around curator Beatrice Galilee
French architect Elisabeth Polzella has built a covered market from structural stone and timber for the town of Lamure-Sur-Azergues in the Rhône region of central France. More about Elisabeth Polzella creates structural-stone covered market in Lamure-Sur-Azergues
To mark Earth Day, VDF collaborated with The World Around to host a series of talks, interviews, short films and essays exploring ideas that could "shape the future of our relationship with the planet". More about Kunlé Adeyemi, Nelly Ben Hayoun and Cameron Sinclair feature in VDF's collaboration with The World Around for Earth Day
The coronavirus has exposed fundamental problems with our healthcare systems that we should not forget once the pandemic passes, warns Reinier de Graaf in a letter to the present from the future. More about "The current crisis has exposed the structural shortcomings of our healthcare systems"