"This is architecture at its best"

This week's best stories and comments from Dezeen View online This week, readers are impressed by a boxy Californian house but disappointed by various coronavirus-related design proposals. There are also only five days to go before the Dezeen Awards 2020 entry deadline on 2 June. Find out why you should enter here.     "This is architecture at its best" Readers have given Ras-A Studio the thumbs up for its design of a house belonging to a photographer in Hermosa Beach, California. Read more ›   "Face masks will become a key part of our wardrobe" One reader appreciates Adidas mass producing reusable face masks, but others criticised the design for not being innovative enough. Read more ›   Only five days left to enter Dezeen Awards 2020 From the chance to be published on Dezeen to saving 50 per cent on studio category entries, here are five reasons why you should enter Dezeen Awards today. Read more ›   "Most coronavirus solutions aren't solutions at all" Architecture critic Kate Wagner has created the term "coronagrifting" to describe outlandish coronavirus-related proposals, dividing readers. Read more ›     "Spectacular" Commenters have fallen for Towers Road House, which Australian  studio Wood Marsh designed as "a sculpture to live within". Read more ›   "The sets this season are like another character" Set decorator Casey Williams has been praised by readers for creating the visual mood for hit TV thriller series Killing Eve.  Read more ›   Virtual Design Festival clocks up over a million video plays as it reaches the halfway stage As Virtual Design Festival reaches the halfway point, Dezeen founder and editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs selects his highlights. Read more ›   "Just stay home" One reader thinks it's better to stay at home than wear accessories that aid social distancing, such as Veronica Toppino's Structure hats. Read more ›     "Finally a severe box packed full of funky flavour" Formafatal used blackened wood and a green roof to form this holiday home in Costa Rica and readers can't get enough.  Read more ›   "We should be designing new ways of making contact" The Manser Practice has outlined how hotels could be adapted to allow social distancing when they reopen but not everyone is convinced. Read more ›   "Bit like a chicken coop" We rounded-up 10 projects with unusual balconies after architect Alison Brooks called for more open-air spaces on housing projects.  Read more ›   "Most interesting notion I've seen in a while" Adam Nathaniel Furman says a colourful "New London Fabulous" design movement is challenging minimalism, delighting readers. Read more ›   "There's no reason why architects should be exempt" Loneliness, money worries and the stress of trying to work from home has had a negative impact on architects' mental health, says the RIBA. Read more ›   "A little gem" The modernist Ben Rose House in the film Ferris Bueller's Day Off and Philip Johnson's Glass House informed this pool house in Canada. Read more ›   Architecture | Interiors | Design | Technology | Jobs           You have received this because you are subscribed to Dezeen Weekly. Update newsletter preferences | Unsubscribe | Forward to a friend Dezeen Limited, 8 Orsman Road, London N1 5QJ, UK Contact us | Submit a story | Advertise