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This shimmering steel house in Kyoto by Japanese architects ALPHAville towers above its vernacular neighbours. (more…) View the full article

Scroll on for all the latest from our recruitment site Dezeen Jobs, including positions with Tom Dixon, Heatherwick Studio and Llustre, plus this is the last chance to apply for roles with Universal Design Studio, Architonic and more… (more…) View the full article

Mexican firm Rojkind Arquitectos created this design for the restoration of the National Archive Museum in Mexico City, located in a former prison. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Architecture firm Scott Brownrigg have completed the London office of internet search engine Google, with a giant logo in the lobby forming doorways through the two Os. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Inside Festival 2014: Virginia Lung of interior design firm One Plus Partnership explains why she used a palette of black and white for the interior of the Cine Times cinema in Hong Kong (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

Rio 2016: the handball arena set to host events during the Rio Olympics next month is designed to be taken down and rebuilt as schools around the city (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Tokyo 2010: Japanese designer Yota Kakuda presented a collection of self-assembly wooden furniture at DesignTide Tokyo 2010 earlier this month. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Designer David Taylor of Stockholm has created a series of candle holders made from layers of silver, steel and beech for Stockholm craft collective Konsthantverkarna. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Milan 2011: Spanish designer Patricia Urquiola presents this quilted sofa with a plastic frame at the Salone Internazionale del Mobile in Milan this week. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

US firm Mark Odom Studio has opened up the floor plan of a mid-century office building in Austin for insurance company BKCW. Read more View the full article

Brooklyn-based designer Sara Sallam has imagined a collection of jewellery and accessories to protect the wearer from tech-enabled surveillance without concealing their features. Read more View the full article

In this week's comments update, readers are split over unpaid internships, with some labelling them as detrimental to the industry and others defending them as a vital part of young architects' training. Read more

Inside awards: in the first of a series of Dezeen Talks filmed at the Inside awards in Barcelona last week, Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs talks to Dutch designer Jeroen Luttikhuis of interior design studio OPERA Amsterdam about the Ceramics Study Galleries at the Victoria & Albert museum in London, which won the display category. Watch the movie » </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

The inaugural Dubai Design Week will feature projects from 10 international design schools including London's Royal College of Art and Swiss college ÉCAL for its future-themed Global Grad Show (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

This boat made entirely from plastic bottles by Exploration Architecture is making its way across the Pacific Ocean from San Francisco to Sydney in order to highlight environmental damage to the seas. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen has teamed up with Rado and Les Couleurs Suisse to host a panel discussion on how iconic architect Le Corbusier's Architectural Polychromy colour theory has influenced the brands' new watch collection. Tune in live from 4:00pm UK time. Read more View the full article

The design community and foreign policymakers need to attend each other's events and communicate, if we are to find solutions to global urbanisation issues, says US Department of State advisor Ian Klaus. Read more View the full article

Venice Architecture Biennale 2010: Japanese studio Tetsuo Kondo Architects and environmental engineering firm Transsolar have suspended a cloud inside the Arsenale exhibition space at the Venice Architecture Biennale. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Wire: the UK government has set MPs a homework project over the summer to highlight British design and manufacturing icons. Examples put forward so far include toilet rolls, fish fingers and custard cream biscuits – Management Today See the full list of products on the Guardian Datablog » </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

The top floor of this office block in Italy by architects Modostudio is screened by faceted concrete panels that resemble Inca stonework. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

London studio Blacksheep have completed a pizzeria for celebrity chef Jamie Oliver where a cinema listings board displays the menu and diners can watch chefs at work on vintage televisions. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

The AHEAD Americas awards is announcing its winners today in a video ceremony broadcast as part of Virtual Design Festival's collaboration with the awards programme. View the full article

VDF products fair: The New Classic is a collection of sanitaryware and accessories designed by Marcel Wanders for Swiss manufacturer Laufen, which hopes to bring a "poetic experience" into bathroom interiors. Read more View the full article

London Design Festival 2010: Mark Holmes of Minimalux has launched a new collection of products including a stainless steel knife and spork, a silver and cork pill container (above) and an aluminium mobile. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dutch architects MVRDV have unveiled their design for an office building in Paris, where the middle section will appear broken and twisted open. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article