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This week, a pair of towers outside London's Victoria station won the 2017 Carbuncle Cup and children's clothes that grow with their wearers took home the UK's James Dyson Award. Read more View the full article

Swiss firm Markus Schietsch Architekten has completed a new elephant house for a zoo in Zurich featuring an elaborate wooden gridshell roof and a glass-sided swimming pool (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

California studio Bureau Spectacular has created a wooden structure on stilts that references the Primitive Hut proposed by philosopher Marc-Antoine Laugier in the 18th century. Read more View the full article

Architects and designers have created a public Google Docs spreadsheet to highlight design, architecture, engineering or planning studios founded by black, indigenous and people of colour. Read more 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

Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser. Dezeen podcast: Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs talks to James Dyson in this podcast recorded at the UK launch of Dyson’s new floor-standing blade-less fans. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Steel whirlpools spiral into skylights in the roof of a church in Austria by architects Coop Himmelb(l)au. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Photographer Nelson Garrido has sent us some images of a house designed by AGi Architects located next to a beach in Bnaider, Kuwait. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This house in São Paulo by Brazilian architect Flavio Castro consists of a cubic volume perched on two yellew beams that straddle the garage below. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Screen: here’s a movie by photographer Luke Hayes that shows the making of Carmody Groarke‘s Indian Ocean Tsunami Memorial, which was quarried in France installed outside London’s Natural History Museum. Watch the movie » </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Four courtyards are cut into the asymmetrical white roof of this Portuguese house by ARX Portugal Arquitectos and Portuguese architect Stefano Riva. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

While converting existing buildings into fully functioning hospitals is unfeasible, high schools and large hotels can be used as care space for coronavirus patients, says Jason Schroer, who is director of health at HKS's firm in Dallas. Here he explains how. Read more View the full article

Vienna Design Week 2010: Dutch designers Studio Makkink & Bey present an installation combining sugar and silver at the Liechtenstein museum in Vienna. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> 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

This walnut jewellery case by Munich accessory designer Saskia Diez for German brand e15 separates jewels within carved concentric circles. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeenwire: Italian design brand Skitsch have sacked their CEO Renato Preti. See press release below. More about Skitsch on Dezeen » (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

See the latest from our recruitment site Dezeen Jobs, including positions with Benjamin Hubert, DSDHA and Studio Egret West, whose library in London (pictured) completed the £80m Clapham One regeneration scheme. This is also the last chance to apply for roles with Herzog & de Meuron, Lee Broom, Allford Hall Monaghan Morris and more... (more...) View the full article

We’ve featured a few projects using reflections to clever effect recently, so this month’s top ten is a roundup of our most popular Dezeen stories about mirrors. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Three art and design schools in France have joined forces to exhibit ESTorama as part of VDF's collaboration with Ventura Projects. Read more View the full article

New York designer Alissia Melka-Teichroew of byAMT has designed a collection of jewellery made up of ball-and-socket joints, like those usually found in hip replacements. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Tom Kundig has selected his 10 favourite projects, including a house in Rio de Janeiro and a hillside winery in British Columbia, ahead of the release of a monograph detailing the American architect's work. Read more View the full article

Feathers fly around this 15 metre-long tank installed by Japanese designer Tokujin Yoshioka at the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo.Called The Snow, the installation is part of an exhibition called Sensing Nature that continues until 7 November.See all our stories about Tokujin Yoshioka »Here’s some more information from Yoshioka:In recent years, I have been studying [...]</img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Photographer José Campos has sent us these photographs of the recently completed law courts in Gouveia, Portugal, by architects Barbosa & Guimarães. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

We’ve got a thing for criss-crossing bridges at the moment so here’s another one, this time designed by NEXT Architects and Rietveld Landscape for Amsterdam. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen promotion: this video shows Basque woodworking company Axalko crafting a bicycle frame from wood. (more…) View the full article