Have you completed a landscape design project or an infrastructure project that you're particularly proud of? Enter it for this year’s Dezeen Awards 2020, where landscape and infrastructure are among eight new categories. More about You can now enter landscape projects and infrastructure projects for Dezeen Awards
Designer Tom Dixon describes how a motorcycle crash forced him to abandon a career as a bass guitarist in the latest episode of Dezeen's Face to Face podcast. More about "As long as you have attitude, you don't have to be talented" says Tom Dixon in Dezeen's latest podcast
London-based architect Stiliyana Minkovska has designed a trio of undulating birthing chairs called Ultima Thule, which offer women a "sanctuary-like" environment during childbirth. More about Stiliyana Minkovska reimagines hospital maternity wards as "interstellar" spaces
Architecture firm Woods Bagot has designed a modular system that can adapt apartments to make them suited to working, playing and cooking, as people spend more time at home because of the coronavirus. More about Woods Bagot's modular AD-APT modifies apartments for working from home
With Tinseltown under lockdown due to coronavirus, a new genre of "virus fiction" or "ViFi" could emerge, says speculative architect and director Liam Young in the first of a series of video messages from creatives around the world recorded as part of our Virtual Design Festival. More about Los Angeles "is now a live-action dystopia playing out in real time" says Liam Young
The architecture community has paid tribute to William "Bill" Menking, co-founder of The Architect's Newspaper, who has died aged 72 of cancer. More about The Architect's Newspaper co-founder Bill Menking dies aged 72
Life in Shanghai is slowly getting back to normal, reports curator Aric Chen in this video message recorded for Virtual Design Festival on his first day in the fresh air after 14 days of home quarantine. More about "I hope this offers a glimmer of hope that things are getting better" says Aric Chen
Cats' Pink House is a holiday home in Taiwan that includes cat ladders, a rotating carousel-shaped climbing frame and a fluffy pink swing for the owner's feline companions. More about Pink holiday home by KC Design Studio features dedicated cat room
Architecture firm Shau has built a library in Semarang, Indonesia, featuring a grand staircase, a net floor and a large communal swing. More about Microlibrary Warak Kayu features a hammock-style floor and a swing
With health workers in many parts of the world facing shortages of personal protective equipment as they treat coronavirus patients, architects, designers, institutions and brands around the world are making face shields. More about Eight face shields designed to protect coronavirus healthcare workers
These five houses in San Francisco are traditional in the front and have contemporary extensions in the back. More about Five San Francisco house extensions designed to contrast the original architecture
New York architecture studio Worrell Yeung has brought new life to a former artist's studio in the city, stripping paint off wood pillars and adding a large kitchen island. More about Worrell Yeung contrasts wood pillars and grey marble in Chelsea Loft
Glasgow studio O'DonnellBrown has designed and built an open-air classroom, which will host learning workshops after the coronavirus shutdown is over. More about O'DonnellBrown promotes outdoor learning with The Community Classroom
Stockholm's Studio EO marries handblown glass with fragments of discarded marble found in quarries to form its colourful Drill Vases. More about Studio EO's marble and glass Drill Vases are "part chaos and part control"
Architecture studio 2m26 has completed this small wooden guesthouse with matching furniture in southwestern France. More about La Petite Maison is a tiny guesthouse in France made out of wood
Just in time for Easter, here are eight buildings shaped like eggs, including a golden sauna in Sweden, beach huts in South Korea and a micro home in Slovakia. More about Eight egg-shaped buildings from around the world
Portuguese studio Site Specific Arquitectura has renovated a 1950s school in Lisbon and added a dual-level extension with round openings connecting its outdoor spaces. More about Circular holes connect playgrounds on two levels of a Lisbon school
Nine leading Italian design brands have signed a manifesto urging the government to allow them to restart production after Easter amid concerns "it could take 20-30 years" for the sector to recover from the impact of coronavirus. More about Italian design brands warn of "economic catastrophe" unless factories reopen next week
Gold-leaf "sunbursts" and mirrored panelling feature in this art deco-style Parisian restaurant, which British designer John Whelan has stirred with 1970s-inspired details. More about John Whelan adorns Paris' Nolinski restaurant with art-deco details
This week on Dezeen, Dyson crafted 44 engineering challenges for children during the coronavirus lockdown and Frank Lloyd Wright residences opened their doors for virtual tours. More about This week, Dyson kept kids entertained and Frank Lloyd Wright gave virtual tours during lockdown