Wooden frames, moveable styling stations and plants are used to encourage social distancing in this New York hair salon, which local studio BoND designed during the coronavirus pandemic. More about New York hair salon Hawthorne Studio is designed for social distancing
Belgian design duo Muller Van Severen is exhibiting a selection of their furnishings amongst the rooms of Villa Cavrois, a modernist 20th-century villa near Lille, France. More about Villa Cavrois serves as backdrop to Muller Van Severen exhibition
Brooklyn's Wythe Hotel has teamed up with workplace designer Industrious to create rentable offices in its guest suites to cater to those who are working from home during the coronavirus pandemic. More about Brooklyn hotel bedrooms converted into offices for remote workers
Dutch studio Unknown Architects used four oxide-red steel columns to open up the previously constricted interior of this apartment in Amsterdam. More about Unknown Architects overhauls Amsterdam apartment with red steel columns
A fireman's pole lets children slide down between floors in this house that Aurora Arquitectos has created in Lisbon, Portugal. More about Aurora Arquitectos transforms ruined Lisbon building into fun family home
Architects Luke and Joanne McClelland have overhauled their own apartment in Edinburgh, Scotland, to feature a sequence of contemporary light-filled living spaces. More about Architect couple turns Edinburgh apartment into modern living space
Natural colours and beach textures from a Canadian surf town informed the design of this Vancouver restaurant by local studio September. More about Canadian surf town informs design for taco restaurant by September
Architecture practice Fraher & Findlay has renovated and extended a home in east London, adding a small courtyard that offers glimpses of old and new parts of the property. More about Tsubo House in Hackney features tiny Japanese-style courtyard
Concrete surfaces and gold accents define Say No Mo, a salon-cum-cocktail bar in Kyiv that Balbek Bureau has designed to avoid gender stereotypes. More about Say No Mo is a gender-neutral beauty salon and cocktail bar in Kyiv
A courtyard dotted with olive trees sits at the heart of this grey-brick home in Melbourne that Studio Four has created for its own co-director. More about Ruxton Rise Residence in Melbourne is arranged around a planted courtyard
Tel Aviv studio Rust Architects has renovated an apartment in the Israeli city for a couple who both work from home. More about Rust Architects softens modernist Tel Aviv apartment with oak details
A pale geometric relief wall offsets brass and green-marble decor details inside Forte Forte's Madrid boutique, designed by creative duo Giada Forte and Robert Vattilana. More about Forte Forte fashion boutique in Madrid is filled with shapely details
Brazilian studio Debaixo do Bloco Arquitetura has opened up the layout of an apartment in Brasília built in the 1960s to meet a family's contemporary requirements. More about Debaixo do Bloco Arquitetura remodels 1960s Brasília apartment
The 1960s film Playtime by renowned French director Jacques Tati set the tone for this whimsical co-working office that Masquespacio has designed in Valencia. More about Cabinette co-working space in Valencia plays off Jacques Tati's film Playtime
Graduates from UAE's Zayed University present projects including an Arabic calligraphy centre and a place of worship that challenges "repetitive approaches to mosque design" in this VDF school show. More about Zayed University students present 10 interior design projects
Danish design studio Space Copenhagen has used subdued shades of green and grey to deck out the dining room of Le Pristine restaurant in Antwerp, Belgium. More about Moody interiors of Le Pristine restaurant by Space Copenhagen take cues from the Old Masters
Interior designers Sophie Ashby and Alexandria Dauley have set up United in Design, an organisation that aims to increase racial diversity within the interiors industry. More about United in Design aims to provide a "road map" to make the interiors industry more diverse
Borrowing aesthetics from a range of cultures masks the lack of racial diversity in interior design and it is now time to change this says Bhavin Taylor. More about "Interior design casually borrows from cultures it finds aesthetically pleasing without hiring people from those backgrounds"
The "warm sense of the future" depicted in sci-fi movie Her informed the soft grey workspaces that designer Xiaoxi Xiong has created in the Beijing office of furniture brand Fnji. More about Fnji office in Beijing boasts greyscale interiors
New York practice Format Architecture Office has reorganised a 1920s apartment with custom millwork in the city's Upper West Side. More about Pale woodwork updates 1920s Riverside Apartment in New York’s Upper West Side