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Disease changes urban life. But humans have to decide what shape that change takes.

One year ago today, the World Health Organisation officially declared coronavirus a global pandemic. Twenty one of the world's leading designers, including Thomas Heatherwick, Kelly Hoppen and Sevil Peach, gave us their views on how it has changed the world. The pandemic has been the most dramatic disruption to human activity in a generation. For many designers, it has been a time to refocus and rethink how we design products, buildings and cities. "It has challenged us to reassess the 'old normals' that we had based and organised our lives around," explained interior designer Peach. "Coron...

Penda China has built three glazed aluminium-clad entrance canopies to the Haikou Wenming East Road Tunnel in Haikou City, China. Built as the entrances to a 2,700-metre-long tunnel under the Nandu River on Hainan Island in China, the bright white canopies are informed by the shape of seashells. Penda China designed the entrance canopies for the Haikou Wenming East Road Tunnel "Seashells were the main source of inspiration for us," said Penda China co-founder Sun Dayong. "The canopy is not a mere replica of shellfish, we distilled the general shape out of a bivalve shellfish and instilled ...