New York City mayor Bill de Blasio has made the Open Restaurants Program, which allows restaurants in the city to extend seating onto streets, sidewalks and public spaces, permanent following the coronavirus pandemic. More about Outdoor dining on New York City streets becomes permanent
Dezeen Showroom: Zurich-based designer Alfredo Häberli has created the Dado modular sofa system for furniture brand Andreu World, which can be pieced together like a puzzle. More about Dado sofa system by Alfredo Häberli for Andreu World
Dezeen promotion: a cluster of luxurious tents in the Namibian desert and a hotel set amongst verdant gardens in Marrakech are some of the projects shortlisted in the Middle East and Africa heats of this year's AHEAD awards. More about Shortlist revealed for AHEAD MEA 2020 hospitality awards
Oak chairs sit amongst paper yarn-wrapped columns within this Blue Bottle Coffee cafe in Yokohama, Japan created by Keiji Ashizawa Design and Norm Architects. More about Blue Bottle Coffee cafe in Yokohama spotlights natural materials
There are now less than two weeks left for you to vote for your favourite Dezeen Awards projects and studios. Here is an update on votes cast so far in each of the 12 interiors categories. More about With two weeks left to vote, see the interiors projects winning in the Dezeen Awards 2020 public vote
Shanghai-based studio Lacime Architects has completed The Wave gallery on the coast of Tianjin, China, which is clad in thousands of aluminium tiles and resembles a giant surge of water. More about The Wave art gallery in China is wrapped by aluminium scales
Architecture practice Studio VDGA has renovated an office in Pune, India, with partition walls made from cardboard and MDF. More about Studio VDGA lines office in India with curving walls of honeycomb cardboard
Designer Iñaki Alday and landscape architect Kate Orff reflected on how their practices respond to the climate crisis in this live conversation produced by Dezeen for Exhibit Columbus. More about Exhibit Columbus talk focuses on resilience and climate adaptation
These stamps by Finnish studio Berry Creative feature images of birds and snow clouds that turn into skeletons and thunderstorms when heated to send a message about the consequences of climate change. More about Berry Creative designs Climate Change Stamps with heat-reactive ink
More than 20 different plant species grow in Forest House, designed by landscape architecture practice Shma Company to fit the largest possible amount of greenery into a small urban plot. More about Shma Company designs Bangkok home for family and forest of 120 trees
London-based Heatherwick Studio has designed an elevated work campus and park bolstered against rising sea levels caused by climate change to replace deteriorating historic piers in San Francisco. More about Heatherwick Studio designs flood-resilient park The Cove for San Francisco
Vancouver-based Shape Architecture has unveiled the charred-wood South Haven Centre for Remembrance within a municipal cemetery on the outskirts of the city of Edmonton, Canada. More about Shape Architecture tops non-denominational centre for remembrance with angular tower
The Exquisite Corpse collection comprises three handmade furniture pieces decorated with a modern take on straw marquetry in vibrant, custom-dyed colours. More about Adam and Arthur designs colourful straw marquetry collection informed by parlour game
Dezeen Showroom: Established & Sons is introducing its range of graphic Bloc tables created with French designer Pauline Deltour to evoke "a hyper-real, hand-drawn cube". More about Bloc side tables by Pauline Deltour for Established & Sons
UAE-based SpaceContinuum Design Studio has collaborated with the Sharjah Art Foundation to turn a 1970s brutalist restaurant into an arts centre in Sharjah. More about Sharjah's brutalist Flying Saucer turned into arts centre
With just two weeks left for you to vote for your favourite Dezeen Awards projects and studios, here is an update on votes cast so far in each of the 12 architecture categories. More about With two weeks left to vote, see who's ahead in the Dezeen Awards 2020 public vote architecture categories
HofmanDujardin and Schipper Bosch have inserted a steel frame into the expansive production hall of an old nylon factory in Arnhem to create the KB Building offices. More about Old nylon factory converted into "cathedral-like" office space
Juniper berry-blue furniture sits against blackened walls inside this cosy bar, laboratory and store that design studio YSG has created in Sydney for gin brand Four Pillars. More about Four Pillars Laboratory in Sydney is a "sanctuary" for gin enthusiasts
London architect Suzanne Brewer has created a prototype wheelchair with only two wheels and a saddle seat that takes the user from seated to standing in one fluid movement. More about Suzanne Brewer develops "Segway-style" wheelchair that allows users to stand upright
New York-based Toshiko Mori Architect has created a circular building topped with a thatch roof for the Fass School and Teachers Residence in the rural village of Fass in eastern Senegal. More about Toshiko Mori Architect tops circular school in Senegal with thatch roof