Clothing company Vollebak has made its Full Metal Jacket from copper as the first step in developing intelligent and disease-resistant clothing in light of the coronavirus pandemic. More about Vollebak weaves seven miles of copper into virus-killing Full Metal Jacket
CJH Studio ditched gaudy 1980s fixtures to form the calming interiors of this penthouse apartment in Gold Coast, Australia. More about Curved forms and beige tones pervade Penthouse M by CJH Studio
Today, Virtual Design Festival has teamed up with CAMP, Prague's centre for architecture and urban planning, to present a day of talks, starting with a live lecture by Japanese architect Kengo Kuma from 10:00am UK time. More about Watch architect Kengo Kuma live from Japan for Virtual Design Festival and CAMP
With only 15 days left to enter Dezeen Awards here are 15 reasons why you should enter your project now. More about There are only 15 days left to enter Dezeen Awards 2020
Research organisation Mercari R4D and a team including students from the University of Tokyo have jointly developed an inflatable electric-scooter that riders can stash away inside their backpack. More about Poimo is an inflatable electric-scooter that can be transported inside a backpack
Week six of Virtual Design Festival features a collaboration with Prague's centre for architecture and urban planning CAMP, including a live interview with Kengo Kuma. We also team up with magazine Sight Unseen and Stockholm Design Week, plus we launch a new series of Screentime interviews featuring leading designers sponsored by Philips TV & Sound. More about Kengo Kuma, Snøhetta, Marjan van Aubel and Adam Nathaniel Furman feature at VDF this week
Leiria-based Contaminar Arquitetos has created a concrete house with an angular form based on caves found in the surrounding Portuguese limestone landscape. More about Contaminar Arquitetos designs Casa Povo to be an "inhabited and humanised cave"
Zozaya Arquitectos has created a traditional palapa with a dried palm roof at the centre of this house in a Mexican beach village. More about Zozaya Arquitectos tops Mexican beach house Casa La Vida with dried palm leaves
Long Island seaside town Amagansett has become a hotspot for New Yorker’s holiday homes. We’ve rounded up six retreats for welcoming warmer days. More about Six holiday havens on the Long Island beach town of Amagansett
German studio Architektur3 has added a triangular tower and public viewpoint to the St Georg church in Bleibach, situated at the intersection of three valleys within the Black Forest. More about Architektur3 adds triangular timber tower to Black Forest church
Boxy timber volumes tuck away the beds and bathrooms of these minimal holiday apartments designed by Thisispaper Studio, which lie at the heart of the Polish capital. More about K916 and K907 are a pair of pared-back holiday apartments in Warsaw
Multidisciplinary collective Studio ThusThat explored the "invisible" material of copper as a low-carbon alternative to concrete when developing its This is Copper furniture collection. More about Studio ThusThat creates objects from "overlooked" byproducts of the copper industry
Designer and programmer Cyril Diagne has created an augmented reality tool that can capture images of real-world objects and add them to a computer program in a few seconds. More about AR Copy Paste tool allows users to capture images of physical objects and drop them into a computer
Today VDF teams up with Schloss Hollenegg for a tour of the historic castle in Austria and live interview with curator Alice Stori Liechtenstein. More about Tour of design exhibition at historic Austrian castle with curator Alice Stori Liechtenstein as part of VDF
Museum de Lakenhal, a 375-year-old building in the Dutch town of Leiden, has been given a contemporary extension and redesign by Happel Cornelisse Verhoeven and Julian Harrap Architects. More about Museum de Lakenhal given redesign and concertina-style pale brick extension
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. More about This week's VDF highlights include Archigram, Faye Toogood, Ben van Berkel and an exclusive piano performance by Rosey Chan
Here are 10 of the best horror films and shows where the haunted house plays a starring role to watch while you're trapped at home during lockdown – if you dare. More about Ten horror films and television shows where the haunted house is the star
This week on Dezeen, architects and designers envisioned socially distanced offices, schools and planes, while a gridded social-distancing system was installed in an Italian piazza. More about This week, architects and designers looked to a socially distanced future
Furniture company IKEA has designed six play houses that can be built with its products to entertain children in coronavirus lockdown. More about IKEA designs forts for children in lockdown
Tom Kundig has selected his 10 favourite projects, including a house in Rio de Janeiro and a hillside winery in British Columbia, ahead of the release of a monograph detailing the American architect's work. More about Tom Kundig describes 10 highlights of his architecture career