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London Design Festival 2011: Dezeen filmed this interview with Bruno Allard, UK managing director of French brand Ligne Roset, to coincide with the Telling Tales exhibition at the Ligne Roset Westend showroom. Watch the movie » </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This week we've selected four promising PR and marketing opportunities on Dezeen Jobs including vacancies at architecture studios De Rosee Sa and Powerhouse Company. Read more View the full article

Italian studio Bjørne launches its handcrafted Ljós lighting, which is designed to evoke mountain sunsets, as part of the VDF x Ventura Projects collaboration. Read more View the full article

Californian firm amphibianArc was inspired by images of spacecrafts to come up with two different skyscraper proposals for the headquarters of a Chinese machinery company in Changsha (+ slideshow + movies). (more…) View the full article

Visitors enter a museum of energy near a nuclear power plant in Spain through a curved wall of light. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Wire: here’s the first image of the Kingdom Tower, about to begin construction in Jeddah and set to be the world’s tallest building at over 1000 metres. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Show RCA 2011: Royal College of Art graduate Ariane Prin uses waste from college workshops as the raw material for her on-site pencil factory (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

San Francisco designer Yves Behar has designed the inaugural product from new Danish mobile phone brand Æsir. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Spanish architects MX_SI have won a competition to design an extension to a Finnish museum of art with this proposal that features recessed zigzagging windows. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Wire: sales of air-conditioned clothing have increased tenfold in Japan this summer as the disasters that hit the country in March continue to cause power shortages - ABC News Designed by Hiroshi Ichigaya, the Kuchofuku jackets feature a battery-operated fan in each side to draw air inside, over the skin and out through the cuffs and neck. </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Watch Store at the WantedDesign pop-up in New York opens today and is now stocking LunaTik designed by Scott Wilson of Chicago studio MINIMAL – and we have a a world exclusive on the new limited-edition camouflage design (above). (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

US firm Aamodt Plumb Architects has created a spacious, oceanfront home in the Hamptons with a sturdy exterior shell that protects the dwelling from coastal storms. Read more View the full article

Architect Carlo Ratti speaks to Dezeen in this Screentime conversation sponsored by Enscape as part of Virtual Design Festival today. Watch it live from 4:00pm UK time. Read more View the full article

The modernist Ben Rose House in the film Ferris Bueller's Day Off and Philip Johnson's Glass House informed this pool house designed by Canadian studio Maurice Martel Architecte. Read more View the full article

Scroll down for all the latest from Dezeenjobs including positions with United Designers, lighting brand Mathmos and London furniture brand SCP. This is also the last chance to apply to work with clothing brand Levi Strauss, and architects OMA and Foster + Partners. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects has transformed an ageing Shanghai office block into a business incubator, featuring a new translucent aluminium skin (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Competition: Dezeen readers can win one of five pairs of tickets for the Awards Preview Evenings at London graduate exhibition New Designers 2013 on 26 June or 3 July. (more...) View the full article

VDF products fair: Product designer Valentin Vodev has developed a foldable electric bike for Vello that charges as it travels. Read more View the full article

Urko Sanchez Architects has designed a concrete compound in Djibouti for the charity SOS Children's Villages International as a home for vulnerable children. Read more

Architecture student Ben Kirk has designed conceptual towers to replace the fast-declining bee population by shooting artificial pollinators into the air. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

A Jewish purification ritual takes place in the pools of this Mexico City bathhouse. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Wire: the Royal Institute of British Architects‘ Future Trends Survey for September points to a drop in the number of architectural practices anticipating increased demand for their services. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeenwire: Marianne Goebl (below) has been appointed director of design collectors’ fair Design Miami/. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

A prototype of the London 2012 Olympic Torch by designers BarberOsgerby was unveiled in London this morning. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article