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Scroll down for all the latest from our recruitment site Dezeenjobs, including positions with us at Dezeen, communications agency BBH, Danish architects Schmidt Hammer Lassen and Beijing architects MAD. This is also the last chance to apply for jobs with UNStudio, Jason Bruges Studio, Mikou Design Studio and more… (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

French designer Matali Crasset has completed a hotel in Nefta where bedrooms are located in eight individual towers overlooking the Tunisian desert. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Swedish designers Front have created a lamp shade where circular holes in the reflective inner layer project spots of light onto the outer diffuser. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Designer Chikara Ohno of Sinato has completed the interior of a boutique in Tokyo by adding a display level above head height made of expanded metal. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

French architect Marc Fornes of THEVERYMANY has completed a perforated aluminium pavilion that resembles a giant piece of coral. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

American studio Richard Meier & Partners have completed an extension to the Gagosian Gallery in Beverly Hills, California, with a curved wooden ceiling. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Steven Chilton of London office Marks Barfield Architects has designed a factory-shaped youth centre for the site of the what was once the world’s largest car plant at Longbridge in Birmingham, UK. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Check out the latest issue of Dezeen Mail for all the best stories and comments from Dezeen, including an upside-down skyscraper, sculptural shoes and stools made in an explosion. There’s also an update from Dezeen Wire, the latest movies on Dezeen Screen and all our new competitions and jobs. Take a look at Dezeen Mail issue #78 here. Dezeen Mail is sent out every couple of weeks and you can subscribe here. </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Japanese architect Toyo Ito and b720 Arquitectos of Spain have completed two adjacent towers in Barcelona containing a hotel and offices. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Royal College of Art student Eliot Postma has created a conceptual project where pets could be used to harvest human organs for transplants. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Planks of a picnic table are draped over the railing at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts in Omaha, Nebraska. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

DMY: this calendar by German designer Susanna Hertrich shreds paper displaying each passing day. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeenwire: Jay Merrick on the rollout of Alain de Botton’s Living Architecture project, creating contemporary holiday homes in the UK - Independent See also: Houses by Peter Zumthor, MVRDV and others for Living Architecture (July 2010) Balancing Barn by MVRDV and Mole Architects (May 2009) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Office for Metropolitan Architecture have completed this office interior in Hong Kong for management consultancy McKinsey & Company. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Architect Peter Pichler of Bolanzo in Italy has designed a house for a photographer in Forst, Italy, where a large window at one end will be transformed into a projection wall for presentations. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Paris designer Lee West has designed an extra-tall teapot that has no handle but instead has a removable cork sleeve to stop you burning your hands. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dutch designer Richard Hutten has designed a postage stamp that consists of a tiny eight-page book for Dutch postal company Royal TNT Post.(more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

French architect Jean Nouvel has unveiled his design for the new National Museum of Qatar. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Technische Universiteit Eindhoven student Ricardo Ploemen has designed a conceptual chapel with wavy brick walls, using an AutoCad script to determine the structure of each facade. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

A veil of metal lace screened by thin concrete piers clads an extension to a baroque theatre and an adjacent commercial block in Germany. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Scroll down for all the latest from our recruitment site Dezeenjobs, including positions with Marcel Wanders in Amsterdam, MVRDV in Rotterdam and Studio Toogood in London, plus this is the last chance to apply for jobs with Hogarth Architects, David Morley Architects and more… (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This time last year Dezeen readers were utterly outraged by a range of beer packaged inside dead animals. Apart from those who found it really, really funny… London mayor Boris Johnson launched the Barclays Cycle Hire Scheme, Herzog & de Meuron unveiled an apartment tower for Beirut and Tokujin Yoshioka filled a 15 metre-long tank with flying feathers. Dezeen launched a new comments system, which readers put to use by drooling over a concrete coffee machine, disputing the feasibility of a clock with batteries for hands and ridiculing the London Gate project. See all our stories from July 2010 » See our review of last year » </img></img&g…

Japanese fashion designer Issey Miyake has designed a range of clothing that expand from two-dimensional geometric shapes into structured shirts, skirts, pants and dresses. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Spanish architects Carlos Pereda Iglesias and Óscar Pérez Silanes have competed a glass and red brick primary school in Pamplona, Spain. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Photographer Nelson Garrido has sent us his photographs of this house in Palmela, Portugal, designed by Eduardo Trigo de Sousa and ComA Architects. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article