As we count down the days to enter Dezeen Awards, interiors expert judge Michelle Ogundehin says she is looking forward to submissions that combine originality with sustainability. More about There is a "surfeit of stuff in the world" says Dezeen Awards judge Michelle Ogundehin
Despite creating highly collectable artworks and designing best-selling products, Ron Arad says he has never pursued commercial success in the latest talk as part of our ongoing partnership with Friedman Benda for VDF. More about "For me, business is always a necessary evil" says Ron Arad
More than food and drink is offered inside this healthy cafe in Madrid, where architecture practice Andrés Jaque/Office for Political Innovation has included a host of quirky facilities. More about Run Run Run cafe has a hanging vegetable garden and see-through showers
American architect Marc Thorpe has designed this Hollywood Hills residence for an art collector to draw on the modernist Case Study Houses. More about Marc Thorpe designs Case Study 2020 house for Los Angeles
Rhode Island may be the smallest US state but its design scene is proving to be mighty according to these five studios, which praise the work-life balance, easygoing attitude and community it offers. More about Five studios enriching Rhode Island's "slowly but surely growing design scene"
Vacuum-cleaner entrepreneur James Dyson has become the UK's wealthiest person despite spending £500 million on his company's scrapped electric car, which has been revealed for the first time. More about James Dyson becomes UK's richest person and shares images of cancelled N526 electric car
The Venice Architecture Biennale has announced that this year's event will be postponed until 2021 due to coronavirus, with the scheduled Art Biennale being pushed back to 2022. More about Venice Architecture Biennale postponed until 2021
The final talk for Virtual Design Festival's partnership with CAMP sees Brooklyn and Detroit-based architecture studio Interboro share its views on public space interventions and urban planning. More about Pedestrianisation of cities can be tool of exclusion says Interboro in VDF lecture
As part of today's collaboration with CAMP, VDF is showing this lecture where Danish architecture studio Cobe explains how it helped make Copenhagen one of the most liveable cities in the world. More about Cobe's Thomas Krarup discusses making Copenhagen into an "urban living room" in VDF lecture
Harriet Harriss, dean of the Pratt Institute School of Architecture in New York, speaks to Dezeen in this live Screentime conversation sponsored by Enscape as part of Virtual Design Festival. More about Live interview with architect Harriet Harriss as part of Virtual Design Festival
In this lecture, part of Virtual Design Festival's collaboration with CAMP, Snøhetta partner Jenny B Osuldsen discusses the architecture studio's core values and projects, including Times Square and the King Abdulaziz Centre for World Culture. More about Snøhetta "managed to push the world forward through architecture" says Jenny B Osuldsen in VDF talk
Boston firm Flavin Architects has built a three-storey addition for a house in Massachusetts to offer space for a couple to write, garden and repair antique scooters. More about Flavin Architects adds "creative sanctuary" Modern Lantern Studio to Massachusetts home
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