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Canadian practice RUFproject have completed a football training centre in Soweto, South Africa, with wooden louvres wrapping the upper parts of the structure. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> 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

Venice Architecture Biennale 2016: Aileen Sage Architects has installed a swimming pool inside Australia's Biennale pavilion to symbolise the importance of this type of public space to the nation's cultural identity (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Virtual Design Festival and Arthur Mamou-Mani Architects have teamed up to invite readers to visit a temporary amphitheatre designed for this year's Burning Man festival in virtual reality. Read more View the full article

Car brand MINI is closing A/D/O, its creative hub in Brooklyn, due to the economic downturn caused by the coronavirus pandemic. Read more View the full article

English architect John Glew has introduced new fenestration and a zinc-clad extension to this mock-Georgian house in north London, squeezing the new structure into a wedge of land between the house and its neighbour. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Here’s an update from our recruitment site Dezeenjobs, including positions with architects OMA, Heatherwick Studio and cosmetics brand Molton Brown. This is also the last chance to apply for roles with architects Foster + Partners, interior designers Blacksheep and more… (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Internet giant Google will run this shared workplace for startup technology companies that interior designers Jump Studios have just completed in the area nicknamed Silicon Roundabout in Shoreditch, London. (more…) View the full article

The Temporium: today is your last chance to visit our Christmas shop The Temporium – we close at 3pm – and the final window in our Advent calendar features ceramics and glass by Londoner Shan Valla. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

The illusion of giant cable knits was created by prints on sportswear fabric in Westminster student Philli Wood's BA fashion collection. (more...) View the full article

One half of an extension to a house in north London is surrounded by frameless glass, whilst the other half is encased in slatted timber. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Scroll down for all the latest from our recruitment site Dezeenjobs this week, including positions with architects Herzog & de Meuron and OMA. This is also the last chance to apply to work with Thomas Heatherwick, Tom Dixon, Jason Bruges Studio, Universal Design Studio and more… (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This week we're rounding up popular homes from Dezeen's Pinterest boards that use fireplaces to create cosy living spaces – including a Norwegian cabin and a Finnish winter retreat. Read more View the full article

British philosopher Roger Scruton has returned to the role of chair of the Building Better Building Beautiful housing commission, a role he was sacked from earlier this year. Read more

Tokyo 2010: Japanese studio Daisuke Motogi Architecture presented this armchair for holding and hiding things at DesignTide Tokyo 2010 earlier this week. (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 designers Tom Dixon and Heatherwick Studio, plus this is the last chance to apply for roles with Matteo Thun & Partners, Marcel Wanders, Buro Ole Scheeren and more… (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

London Design Festival: industrial designer Jake Dyson presented an LED task light with a heat-pipe cooling system at designjunction last week. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Photographer Julien Lanoo has sent us his photos of this wooden folly with mirrored shutters in the mountains of southern Germany by Berlin studio Baumhauer. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Danish architects Bjarke Ingels Group have designed a residential building for Manhattan, New York, with a rectangular plan pulled up at one corner to form a triangular tower. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Wire: the Sofitel Vienna Stephansdom hotel by French architect Jean Nouvel has won the “New Build Hotel” category at The European Hotel Design Awards 2011. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Milan 2012: London designers 00:/ recently showed visitors to Milan’s most famous department store how to construct a wooden house from a downloaded kit of parts. (more…) View the full article

IKEA has redesigned the tiny living pod on the Mars Desert Research Station in Utah, filling its interior with space-saving furnishings. Read more View the full article

Teresa van Dongen will speak to Dezeen in a live Screentime interview sponsored by Philips TV & Sound as part of Virtual Design Festival. Watch here from 2:00pm UK time. Read more View the full article

Cedar furnishings, leafy eucalyptus branches and steel partitions feature within this spa and wellness centre in Sydney, which has been designed by local practice Esoteriko. Read more View the full article

Dezeenwire: Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs will interview designers designers Mark Braun, Kilian Schindler and Michael Hilgers of Rephorm live on stage from 12.30 in the The Ramazzotti D3 Lounge at imm Cologne today, as part of our Dezeentalks at [D3] Design Talents series. The interviews will be broadcast on Dezeen at a later date. More info plus the full schedule in our earlier story. See films of all the Dezeentalks at last year’s fair here. </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article