Makeshift roadblocks from Hong Kong's pro-democracy protests won the People's Choice category at the Designs of the Year awards because they could be made by anyone anywhere, says Design Museum curator Maria McLintock. More about Brick Arches roadblocks from Hong Kong protests resonate as "anyone can replicate"
Studio Anton Hendrik Denys and Steen Architecten have transformed an industrial office building in Belgium by cladding it in corrugated metal and adding colourful graphic interiors. More about Studio Anton Hendrik Denys designs Belgian office informed by 1960s colour schemes
Dutch designer Marjan van Aubel has developed a solar lamp that is designed to be hung in front of windows so it can generate its own energy. More about Marjan van Aubel creates indoor solar light to usher in "solar democracy"
Dezeen promotion: the UK Timber Trade Federation is showcasing the winning entries of its Conversations about Climate Change design competition via a virtual exhibition and event series. More about Timber Trade Federation exhibits six "conversation pieces" made from responsibly sourced timber
Landscape architecture studio Narchitektura has used 40 grey sandstone slabs to create a memorial park on the site of a former synagogue in Oświęcim, the Polish city where the Auschwitz concentration camp was located. More about Narchitektura creates memorial park on site of Oświęcim's Great Synagogue
Punta Chilen by Guillermo Acuña Arquitectos Asociados is a house extension on bright red-painted pine stilts overlooking the sea on the island of Chiloe in Chile. More about Guillermo Acuña raises seaside annexe on forest of red-painted pine stilts
Studio Roosegaarde has proposed a light that uses ultraviolet radiation to sanitise outdoor spaces, claiming this could reduce the risk of people contracting Covid-19. More about Studio Roosegaarde's ultraviolet Urban Sun light "cleans public spaces of coronavirus"
Monoarchi has designed a campus building with a geometric facade wrapped around a number of small courtyards for an experimental school in Hangzhou, China. More about Monoarchi designs gridded facade with colourful accents for school in China
San Francisco-based footwear brand Allbirds is set to introduce what it claims is the first leather alternative entirely made from plant-based ingredients. More about Allbirds to make shoes using plant-based leather to help "eradicate petroleum from the fashion industry"
Dutch architecture studio OMA has produced a film exploring hospital design as part of its research into its first hospital buildings. Partner at the studio Reinier de Graaf tells Dezeen how he envisions the hospital of the future. More about "Hospitals in drastic, drastic need of innovation" says Reinier de Graaf
South African artist Andile Dyalvane's sculptural iThongo seating collection was crafted from hand-coiled clay and informed by significant words in the Xhosa language. More about Andile Dyalvane draws on Xhosa heritage for iThongo seating collection
Studioninedots has created a house in the Netherlands that is arranged as a patchwork of alternating courtyards and industrial low-lying pavilions. More about Outdoor space has "equal importance" to interiors in Villa Fifty-Fifty
Three pavilions topped with a metal roof form this house in the woods of Tennessee, designed by American firm Sanders Pace Architecture. More about French Broad House by Sanders Pace weaves through a Tennessee forest
In this week's comments update, readers are discussing the design of a trio of skyscrapers set to be built in London and sharing their views on other top stories. More about "The Gherkin, the Cheesegrater, the Can, now comes the Good, the Bad and the Ugly" says commenter
The Yale University Center for Innovative Thinking by architecture studio Weiss/Manfredi is an elliptical glass pavilion for students on the New Haven campus. More about Weiss/Manfredi wraps Yale University study centre in curved glass walls
Japanese studio Suppose Design Office has built a monolithic concrete toilet alongside the Sendagaya Station near Tokyo's Olympic stadium. More about Suppose Design Office creates "floating" concrete toilet in Tokyo
A vacant natural-gas plant in Madrid, Spain is set to be overhauled by Foster + Partners to create the plant-filled and timber-lined Acciona Ombú offices. More about Foster + Partners to transform abandoned gas plant in Madrid into offices
The London School of Architecture has appointed architectural historian Neal Shasore as its new head of school and chief executive officer, beginning June 2021. More about London School of Architecture names Neal Shasore head of school
Dezeen Showroom: Stefan Diez had to rethink sofa construction to create Italian brand Magis's Costume system, which is easy to take apart, recycle and clean. More about Costume sofa system by Stefan Diez for Magis
As a performance, a game and a test of strength, British designer Max Lamb made 60 chairs by hand out of slabs of polystyrene over just three days. More about Max Lamb crafts 60 handmade chairs in three days