Today's VDF collaboration with PechaKucha features this live stream of talks by global creatives plus a live interview with PechaKucha founders Astrid Klein and Mark Dytham of Klein Dytham Architecture. More about PechaKucha and Virtual Design Festival team up to stream talks from around the world
Virtual Design Festival has launched with a video featuring self-recorded messages from 35 architects, designers and artists around the world including Stefano Giovannoni, Es Devlin, Ini Archibong, Ben van Berkel and Bec Brittain. More about 35 architects and designers contribute video messages to help launch Virtual Design Festival
Trend forecaster Li Edelkoort spoke to Dezeen live from Cape Town in our first Screentime conversation of Virtual Design Festival. Watch the interview here or on our YouTube channel. More about Live video interview with Li Edelkoort as part of Virtual Design Festival
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
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
Apple has unveiled its design for a face shield to protect health workers fighting coronavirus, which it is producing in the millions. More about Apple reveals its coronavirus face shield design
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
Dezeen has created a short video guide to high-tech architecture from A to Z as the final part of our high-tech architecture series. More about Dezeen's video guide to high-tech architecture
Chinese 3D-printer manufacturer Creality is fabricating thousands of buckles that make face masks less painful to wear for medical workers treating coronavirus patients. More about Creality's 3D-printed buckle makes wearing face masks more comfortable
Steel stilts elevate Narula House, a British dwelling on banks of a River Thames tributary that has been designed by John Pardey Architects to endure flooding. More about John Pardey Architects raises house on stilts over River Thames flood plain
Architecture professor Rachel Armstrong, brand consultant Suzanne Livingston and transportation designer Paul Priestman discussed how people will deal with the increasing complexity of future cities at the Dezeen Day conference last year. More about Watch the video of our future cities panel discussion at Dezeen Day
Dezeen promotion: the Axia collection from Australian brand Phoenix is a set of ultra-thin minimalist taps for architecture fans. More about Phoenix unveils ultra-thin Axia collection of minimalist taps
Architectural designers Ivo Tedbury and Freddie Hong have created a 3D-printed device that adapts door handles for hands-free opening, in a bid to help prevent the spread of coronavirus. More about Architectural designers develop hands-free door handle to prevent spread of coronavirus
Italian architects Carlo Ratti and Italo Rota have designed an intensive-care pod within a shipping container that could be added to hospitals fighting the coronavirus pandemic. More about Carlo Ratti Associati designs shipping-container intensive care units for coronavirus treatment
With millions of people across the world in self-isolation or quarantine to slow the spread of coronavirus, content producer Sebastian Jordahn has put together a list of documentaries on architecture and design to stave off isolation boredom. More about Architecture and design documentaries to binge while in self-isolation
Multidisciplinary group Wevolve Labs modelled its pavilion for last year's Burning Man on a bird-like dinosaur, with large wings that lit up at night and shaded seats underneath. More about Large "sail-like canopy" topped Burning Man installation Archaeopteryx
A multi-room stand designed by Snarkitecture at Stockholm Furniture & Light Fair features in this captioned video produced by Dezeen for flooring brand Bolon. More about Snarkitecture creates labyrinth-like stand for Bolon at Stockholm Furniture Fair
The AHEAD Asia awards is announcing its winners today in a video ceremony broadcast on Dezeen, after its Singapore awards ceremony was postponed due to coronavirus outbreak. More about AHEAD Asia 2020 awards winners announced in video ceremony
An angular platform protruding from the 100th floor of Kohn Pedersen Fox's Hudson Yards skyscraper is the "highest outdoor sky deck" in the western hemisphere. More about Edge sky deck protrudes from supertall Hudson Yards skyscraper
The founder of architecture firm Assembledge+ has completed a house for himself in Los Angeles featuring walls that seem to completely disappear to open up to a garden. More about Assembledge+ founder designs Laurel Hills Residence in Los Angeles for himself