In the second part of our VDF collaboration with film-makers Laura Mark and Jim Stephenson, we screen the first episode of the duo's Practice series, in which architect Piers Taylor of Invisible Studio explains why he built his own house in the woods. More about Invisible Studio "started as a voyage of self-build discovery" says Piers Taylor in film for VDF
Thai architect Kulapat Yantrasast spoke to Dezeen in this live Screentime conversation sponsored by Enscape as part of Virtual Design Festival. More about Live interview with architect Kulapat Yantrasast as part of Virtual Design Festival
A board-marked concrete chimney raises this house designed by US architecture firm Olson Kundig to "hover" above its surrounding in the Brazilian rainforest. More about Olson Kundig Rio House is elevated on chunky concrete columns in Brazilian rainforest
Eleven award-winning projects completed by students across the four year groups on the BSc Architectural Design course at INDA feature in this Virtual Design Festival school show. More about INDA architecture students present award-winning projects from virtual end-of-year show
Hans Ulrich Obrist, Frida Escobedo, Stefano Boeri and others took part in this panel discussion about the relationship between art and architecture organised by Therme Art in collaboration with Virtual Design Festival today. More about Therme Art and VDF present a live panel discussion on the relationship between art and architecture
Paris architecture studio Ateliers O-S Architectes has added a concrete and weathering steel extension to a junior school in the village of Lugrin overlooking Lake Geneva. More about Corten and concrete school overlooks Lake Geneva
Loneliness, money worries and the stress of trying to juggle working from home with caring commitments has had a negative impact on architects' mental health, the RIBA has warned. More about Coronavirus pandemic causing "significant decline" in UK architects' mental health
A greenery-filled courtyard lies at the heart of this home that Keiji Ashizawa Design has created for a family of five in Tokyo's Yoga neighbourhood. More about Tree rises up through centre of House in Yoga by Keiji Ashizawa Design
Architecture studio Smartvoll has preserved an old cottage in Klosterneuburg, Austria, enveloping it in three more buildings to create a spacious family home. More about Smartvoll builds timber-clad extensions around old cottage in Klosterneuburg
A screened porch is sandwiched between two cedar volumes to form this holiday home that the founders of Berman Horn Studio in New York built themselves on an island in Maine. More about Couple builds themselves cedar-clad retreat Little Peek on Maine island Vinalhaven
VDF studio profiles: Simone de Gale Architects is a London-based practice that works not just in building and interior design, but has also developed new material technology for the military and secured a masterplan project in Tbilisi, Georgia. More about Simone de Gale Architects explores "rhythm, pattern and repetition" in the built environment
Spanish practice Tuñón Arquitectos has added a white concrete extension to the Museum of Contemporary Art Helga de Alvear in Cáceres, Spain. More about Tuñón Arquitectos adds white concrete gallery to Museum of Contemporary Art Helga de Alvear
October's Biennale Interieur furniture fair in Belgium has been postponed to 2021 while next year's Tallinn Architecture Biennale in Estonia has been pushed back to 2022. More about Biennale Interieur and Tallinn Architecture Biennale postponed due to coronavirus
Dezeen promotion: Entries are now open for the 2020 Living Places – Simon Architecture Prize, which accepts architecture and design project submissions in video formats. More about Entries now open for Living Places Simon Architecture Prize 2020
Waugh Thistleton Architects has proposed creating 6,500 mobile vaccination centres in shipping containers that could travel around the UK and immunise the entire population against coronavirus in 16 weeks. More about Mobile vaccination centres in shipping containers could immunise 60 million people in four months, says Waugh Thistleton Architects
DK-CM has built a cross-laminated timber reception pavilion with a diagrid roof in the gap between two junior schools in Norfolk, UK, to connect the previously separate institutions. More about DK-CM unites post-war and 1990s schools with CLT reception pavilion
Brooklyn design-build studio Desciencelab has overhauled a gabled house in Montauk on the furthest tip of Long Island with greyed cladding and teak interiors. More about Greyed wood clads renovated Montauk beach house by Desciencelab
Week seven of Virtual Design Festival features a special collaboration with designer Tom Dixon and talks with architects including Frida Escobedo and Junya Ishigami. We also premiere a new film by Laura Mark and Jim Stephenson, in which architect Eva Jiřičná discusses some of Zaha Hadid's most iconic buildings. More about Frida Escobedo, Junya Ishigami, Eva Jiřičná and Tom Dixon feature at VDF this week
A prayer room occupies a white turret in this house in Chandigarh designed by architecture studio Charged Voids to reference the work of Le Corbusier. More about Charged Voids draws on Le Corbusier for multi-generational home in Chandigarh
The modernist Ben Rose House in the film Ferris Bueller's Day Off and Philip Johnson's Glass House informed this pool house designed by Canadian studio Maurice Martel Architecte. More about Philip Johnson's Glass House informs pool pavilion in Canada