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View online     Oliver Chapman Architects combines technology and craft in Flitch House Oliver Chapman Architects has added a garden room to a house in Edinburgh, combining an Arts and Crafts approach with smart-home technologies. Read more ›   C'entro is a fibreglass frame to help people social distance in public parks Design studio SBGA Blengini Ghirardelli has created a concept for social distancing within parks, plus today's other design-related coronavirus news. Read more ›   Escapist restaurant interiors could be "lasting design legacy of the pandemic" says Roar trends report Coronavirus will lead to a rise in escapist restaurant interiors, while physical menus, cash payments and buffets will largely be abandoned, according to a trends report by Dubai-based studio Roar. Read more ›   London, New York, Paris and Milan give streets to cyclists and pedestrians Cities across Europe and the Americas are drawing up plans to take street space away from cars in favour of cyclists and pedestrians in response to the coronavirus pandemic. Read more ›   Architectural knowledge is "very useful for material development" in fashion says Iris van Herpen In the second of our three exclusive video interviews with Iris van Herpen for Virtual Design Festival, the Dutch fashion designer explains how working with architects has informed her approach to textile design and led to her working on a full-scale museum extension last year. Read more ›   Precht creates monochromatic interiors for RayData office in Beijing Grey upholstery helped architecture studio Precht bring a "human touch" to the interior of this data office in Beijing, which features black walls and white zigzag desks. Read more ›   M-Rad designs mobile Covid-19 testing unit concept from "virus-destroying" copper California-based design and architecture studio M-Rad proposes using the natural antimicrobial properties of copper alloy to create a travelling Covid-19 testing unit. Read more ›   Estudio Cavernas designs Thailand community centre as learning hub for Burmese migrant children Not-for-profit organisation Estudio Cavernas has built the sugarcane-thatched Green Island community centre for over 400 Burmese children living near the Myanmar border in western Thailand. Read more ›   Modernist and Southern colonial styles meet in Three Chimney House in rural Virginia Three white-brick chimneys rise from this house in Virginia, which US studio T W Ryan Architecture designed to reference a modernist Mies van der Rohe house and a nearby plantation. Read more ›   Five of the best houses in Peru Concrete blocks, mountain rocks and reddish cement are among the materials used to build these five Peruvian residences in natural surrounds. Read more ›   Live interview with architect Jimenez Lai as part of Virtual Design Festival Los Angeles architect Jimenez Lai speaks to Dezeen in this Screentime conversation sponsored by Enscape as part of Virtual Design Festival today. Watch it live from 5:00pm UK time. Read more ›   Istituto Marangoni challenges designers to create "future products" to win a product design MA scholarship Dezeen promotion: creative school Istituto Marangoni is offering a scholarship worth 50 per cent of tuition fees on its new MA Product Design course at the school's London campus. Read more ›   MuseumLab opens in ruins of lightning-struck Pittsburgh library US firm Koning Eizenberg Architecture left worn-looking ornate walls, brickwork and columns inside this museum for children in Pittsburgh, which occupies a historic library that was struck by lightning. Read more ›   Architecture | Interiors | Design | Technology | Jobs           You have received this because you are subscribed to Dezeen Daily. Update newsletter preferences | Unsubscribe | Forward to a friend Dezeen Limited, 8 Orsman Road, London N1 5QJ, UK Contact us | Submit a story | Advertise