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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

Swiss artist Felice Varini has used brightly coloured paintwork to transform the rooftop of Le Corbusier's iconic Unité d'Habitation in Marseille into a huge optical illusion (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Milan 2010: international designers including James Irvine, Konstantin Grcic and Jasper Morrison have created a collection of marble furniture for Italian stone company Marsotto, unveiled this week in Milan. (more…) </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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Sun-bleached pinks, sandy-beiges and gold decor appear inside this hotel, which Richards and Spence has designed to reference to Brisbane's balmy climate. Read more

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

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

A swirling labyrinth of cardboard conceals sculptures by Italian artist Michelangelo Pistoletto at the Serpentine Gallery in London. (more…) </img></img> </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…

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

North Carolina is the next US state we're featuring in our ongoing series of American residential architecture roundups. Our top five in the region include a renovated mid-century residence and a stacked-volume house overlooking the Blue Ridge Mountains. Read more View the full article

We’ve just sent out the latest issue of Dezeenmail – have a look at it here. Dezeenmail is sent out roughly every two weeks and contains a selection of Dezeen’s best stories and comments, along with all our latest competitions and jobs. </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeenwire: Ecole cantonale d’art de Lausanne (ECAL) have appointed Alexis Georgacopoulos as the college’s new director. See press release below (in French) (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

After being diagnosed with Crohn's disease, designer Teddy Schuyers decided to focus on redesigning the ostomy bag that many sufferers have to wear to improve both their performance and appearance. Read more

Dezeen podcast: in this podcast for the Design Museum in London, curator Alex Newson walks us through this year’s Brit Insurance Designs of the Year exhibition, on show at the museum until 6 June 2010. (more…) </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

Helsinki firm Arkkitehdit NRT designed these workshop facilities for Kymenlaakso University of Applied Sciences in Finland. (more…) </img></img> </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