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Seven shelters for city-dwelling bees

As cities grow and bee populations continue to dwindle, designers are increasingly looking for ways to bring nature to urban areas. In celebration of World Bee Day, we've rounded up seven urban shelters for the vital insects.

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Cobe designs "chamber of secrets" in Sweden to develop Lynk & Co subscription car

Danish architecture studio Cobe has revealed its Uni3 design centre for Chinese car manufacturer Geely in Gothenburg, which will include a hidden laboratory for electric car brand Lynk & Co.

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Italian art director and Driade co-founder Enrico Astori dies at 83

Enrico Astori, an Italian art director and co-founder of design brand Driade, has passed away at the age of 83.

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Exclusive tour of AI exhibition Hyper Human with designer Monica Förster for VDF x Stockholm Design Week

As part of VDF's partnership with Stockholm Design Week, designer Monica Förster takes us on a tour of the exhibition Hyper Human at the Museum of Science and Technology in Stockholm.

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Kingston Lafferty Design plays with scale inside Dublin restaurant Cinnamon

Oversized lollipop-like lamps and a "dollhouse-effect" entryway feature inside this restaurant in Dublin, Ireland, which Kingston Lafferty Design has completed with whimsical interiors.

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"Good design triggers curiosity for a better future" says Dezeen Awards judge Daan Roosegaarde

With less than two weeks left to enter Dezeen Awards 2020, we asked our judges what they hope to see from this year's entrants. Dutch artist Daan Roosegaarde says he is looking for something radical.

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Space10 shares platform for people to create "dream home" for bees

IKEA's research lab Space10 has developed a series of open-source bee homes that anyone can design themselves for free before having it made using a CNC machine.

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VDF x Stockholm Design Week Design Relay talk with Space Copenhagen, Note Design Studio and more

The first part of Virtual Design Festival's collaboration with Stockholm Design Week sees a selection of well-known Scandinavia-based designers come together in a relay talk.

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Creative studio Unknown, Untitled places "immersive collaboration" at its core

VDF studio profiles: Unknown, Untitled is a creative studio based in Paris, France, which specialises in industrial design and counts Facebook and Rimowa as two of its clients.

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Centre for displaced Rohingya women built from bamboo in Bangladesh

Architect Rizvi Hassan used bamboo to build a community centre for Rohingya women and girls living in a refugee camp, where they can bathe and access counselling.

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David Rockwell unveils kit to build restaurants on streets following pandemic

Designer David Rockwell has created a kit of parts to turn New York City's streets into outdoor restaurants that allow for socially distanced dining.

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Designing public hand-washing stations "more useful" in combating coronavirus say commenters

Readers are debating Weston Williamson + Partners' plans for a social-distancing workplace and sharing their thoughts on other top stories in this week's comments update.

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RISD students incorporate found objects and craft into "non-traditional" graduate collection

A fluorescent cabinet and an ottoman that homages Finding Nemo are featured in the final collection by graduate furniture design students from the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), presented here as part of VDF x Sight Unseen.

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SAIC graduates share 18 visions of utopia as part of Sight Unseen's online exhibition

Students from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) have designed products to reflect their idea of a perfect place, shown here in this graduate show as part of VDF x Sight Unseen.

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FT coronavirus updates "allow people to make an informed decision" says data visualisation journalist

Daily data visualisations created by John Burn-Murdoch for the Financial Times have provided one of the most reliable pictures of the global coronavirus pandemic. He spoke to Dezeen about how his charts allow people to be independently informed.

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Slim wooden slats cover "wild geometry" of renovated Californian house

San Francisco's Blue Truck Studio clad the exterior of this holiday house in Manhattan Beach, California with cedar siding to tone down its unusual geometries.

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L'Ecole de Design digital exhibition spotlights student work from across the school

Six masters students from the L'École de Design Nantes Atlantique present projects ranging from city design to food innovation in this digital show as part of Virtual Design Festival's student and schools initiative.

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Denim chair and palm-frond light are among 11 more designs from Offsite Online: Selects showcase

As part of VDF x Sight Unseen, our second roundup of projects from this year's Offsite Online: Selects exhibition features furniture, homeware and lighting that places the material front and centre.

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Hand-blown scales and celestial lamp are among 13 designs from Offsite Online: Selects showcase

As part of the VDF x Sight Unseen collaboration, we've rounded up some of the best furniture, homeware and lighting designs from the Offsite Online: Selects group show.

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Sight Unseen co-founders discuss their virtual exhibition Offsite Online in live VDF talk

The co-founders of design magazine Sight Unseen discussed the ins and outs of running an online design exhibition in this live talk with Dezeen as part of the VDF x Sight Unseen collaboration.

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Ritzwell's latest furnishings reflect the "harmonious dialogue" between wood and leather

Dezeen promotion: walnut, oak and ribbons of leather combine to make the four new furniture pieces released by Japanese brand Ritzwell.

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Live interview with Dara Huang as part of Virtual Design Festival

Dara Huang, founder of architecture studio Design Haus Liberty, will speak to Dezeen in this live Screentime conversation sponsored by Enscape as part of Virtual Design Festival. Watch above from 2:00pm UK time.

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