White-washed walls, Douglas fir joinery and creamy furnishings appear inside this east London home, which design studio Daytrip has renovated and expanded by excavating its basement. More about Daytrip digs beneath east London townhouse to create contemporary living spaces
Architect Francesca Perani has transformed the porch of an Italian villa into a 25-square-metre micro-apartment suitable for self-isolation with plenty of hidden storage. More about Urban Cabin is a micro apartment in Italy with custom seating and storage
Belgian design duo Fien Muller and Hannes Van Severen aimed to explore the possibilities of aluminium tubing in their latest furniture collection, which sees metal pipes lined up in welded rows. More about Muller Van Severen constructs Alltubes furniture series from rows of aluminium pipes
Architecture firm Roth Sheppard has added a pair of steeply pitched metal gables and a raised rear wing to this brick Tudor Revival house in Denver. More about Roth Sheppard adds black metallic extension to 1930s Rabbit House
New York City's Bower Studios has created a chair with a pale concrete top that drapes over a metallic base to form folds on the floor. More about Concrete Melt Chair by Bower Studios folds like a liquid
Matra Architects has used precast slabs of textured white concrete to clad a house formed of three interconnected pavilions set high above a lake in Udaipur, India. More about White concrete house by Matra Architects perches above lake in Udaipur
This week on Dezeen, designers created face shields, mask holders and an emergency hospital to help combat the coronavirus pandemic. More about This week, architects and designers created medical equipment to fight coronavirus
Fashion designer Raf Simons has created two upholstery fabrics, Helia and Silas, for Danish textile company Kvadrat. More about Raf Simons designs Kvadrat upholstery collection informed by haute couture fabrics
Florida design studio Yield is using its production facility to create a spray hand sanitiser to help reduce the spread of Covid-19. More about Yield designs hand sanitiser to help shortage during Covid-19
Israeli designer Sarit Shani Hay has designed wooden built-in furniture to promote collaboration, play and rest in an elementary school in Tel Aviv. More about Sarit Shani Hay designs Tel Aviv elementary school to encourage "joyful experiential learning"
With hundreds of millions of people currently in isolation or lockdown, Dezeen's India Block has selected 10 feature films that use architecture in exciting ways to watch as a distraction from coronavirus-induced boredom. More about Ten films with amazing architecture to stream during coronavirus self-isolation
Daily coronavirus briefing: today's architecture and design coronavirus briefing includes a colourful message of thanks designed by Morag Myerscough, a social distancing-market and Cannes Lions news. More about Daily coronavirus architecture and design briefing: 3 April
Pentagram has designed a fresh visual identity for publishing house Thames & Hudson that is "part modernisation and part restoration". More about Pentagram "future-proofs" Thames & Hudson with latest rebrand
Dutch studio Shift Architecture Urbanism has developed a model for a street food market where people can buy fresh produce without coming into contact with one another during the coronavirus pandemic. More about Shift Architecture Urbanism designs social distancing into the food market
Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers have begun mass-producing disposable face shields for medical workers fighting Covid-19, which come flat-packed and can be folded into shape. More about MIT develops one-piece plastic face shields for coronavirus medics
A huge faux staircase interrupts the floor plan of this house in Tokyo, which design studio Nendo has created for three generations of the same family. More about Steel and concrete steps cut through facade of Stairway House by Nendo
UK charity Art Fund's crowdfunding campaign to save artist and filmmaker Derek Jarman's cottage in Dungeness from being sold to a private owner has been successful. More about Derek Jarman's Prospect Cottage saved by Art Fund campaign
Floating Island Restaurant by C+ Architects features a glazed dining room on stilts cantilevering from a hillside overlooking mountains in Chongquing, China. More about C+ Architects perches glass restaurant above dramatic mountain landscape
Bright Nike puffer jackets form cushions on this augmented reality sofa that Crosby Studios created for people to experience while adhering to social distancing guidelines. More about Crosby Studios designs virtual sofa upholstered with green Nike jackets
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