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Microscape uses stone-filled cages to update Italian cemetery
Cemetery Castel San Gimignano has been renovated by Italian architecture studio Microscape using local limestone stacked in metal baskets. More
Cemetery Castel San Gimignano has been renovated by Italian architecture studio Microscape using local limestone stacked in metal baskets. More
A fundraiser by cult brand Palace and an update on BIG's face-shields project feature in today's round of design-related coronavirus stories. More
Netflix has made all eight episodes of its documentary series Abstract: The Art of Design, which features set designer Es Devlin, architect Bjarke Ingels and interior designer Ilse Crawford, available to watch for free during coronavirus lockdown. More
A hill-like green roof with a skylight helps to blend this public library by Toronto architecture firm RDHA into its grassy surrounds. More
UNStudio founder Ben van Berkel says the architecture firm is researching "how design can support the sectors that are in need" after the effects of the coronavirus pandemic, in a video message for Virtual Design Festival. More
Studio Seilern Architects has built two restaurants at the top of Mount Gütsch – The Gütsch by Markus Neff and The Japanese by The Chedi Andermatt – at the Andermatt ski resort in Switzerland. More
Daily coronavirus briefing: today's architecture and design coronavirus briefing includes yin-yang airplane seating, a PPE suit for clubbing and news of Italian factories reopening. More
Architect Arthur Mamou-Mani has called for help to turn a timber amphitheatre designed for this year's Burning Man into a virtual experience after the desert festival was cancelled. More
Austrian architect Chris Precht speaks to Dezeen in this live Screentime conversation sponsored by Enscape as part of Virtual Design Festival. More
British architecture studio Foster + Partners is publishing a series of architecture challenges, including building a paper skyscraper and creating a city, to keep children in coronavirus lockdown entertained. More
The Hanwha headquarters office tower in Seoul has been remodelled by Dutch architecture firm UNStudio, retrofitting its facade to hold solar panels. More
Daily coronavirus briefing: today's architecture and design coronavirus briefing includes AirAsia's PPE cabin crew uniforms, a "bubble shield" and the UN's coronavirus posters. More
Zaha Hadid Architects has warned architecture practices to be vigilant after hackers held its server to ransom while the company works remotely during the coronavirus pandemic. More
Studio Edwards has turned the simple A-frame cabin into a mobile home with a sleek rubber skin. More
A modernist housing development in Detroit designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe is captured in photographs by architect and local resident Julio Alberto Cedano. More
Architects Robert Arlt and Charles MacBride and a group of students in South Dakota have completed an experimental gabled Passivhaus, which they claim is the first in the area to "sell energy back to the grid". More
Convention centres that have been rapidly turned into facilities for coronavirus patients should not be called hospitals, says Doug King, the healthcare principal of Stantec, which has overseen the transformation of Chicago's McCormick Place. More
Architectural photographer Simone Bossi has created a new image series exploring the curved concrete of a tiny building by Japanese architect Tadao Ando. More
Daily coronavirus briefing: today's architecture and design coronavirus briefing includes hacks for hands-free door opening, the Serpentine Pavilion postponement and the widths of New York's sidewalks. More
RX Architects incorporated part of an unfinished building into this house with a cantilevered upper story on the Rye Nature Reserve in East Sussex, England. More