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Concrete surfaces and just a smattering of furnishings provide a "silent stage" for members using this Berlin co-working space, designed by Annabell Kutucu. Read more View the full article

New York designer Karim Rashid has defended the use of unpaid internships, saying interns can learn more at a firm than at a fee-paying university. Read more

News: Finnish studio ALA Architects has won the international competition to design a new public library in Helsinki with plans that involve a mass of twisted timber (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Dezeen competition: Dezeen has teamed up with the Royal Academy of Arts to give away five pairs of tickets to this year's Annual Architecture lecture, which will be delivered by Chinese architects Lu Wenyu and Wang Shu. (more…) View the full article

Scroll on for all the latest from our recruitment site Dezeen Jobs, including positions with Faye Toogood, Martha Schwartz Partners and the V&A, where lighting brand Bocci installed a giant chandelier of colourful glass spheres during LDF 2013 (pictured). Plus this is the last chance to apply for roles with Vitra Campus, Michael Anastassiades, MAC Cosmetics, Estee Lauder and more... (more...) View the full article

Brooklyn ceramics studio Object and Totem has launched a wearable ring-shaped vessel, based on a circular 19th-century flask (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

A faceted glass shroud cloaks these former shipbuilding warehouses in Elsinore, Denmark, which architects AART have converted into a cultural centre. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Brickwork, terrazzo surfaces and green-hued furnishings add character to the interiors of this east London townhouse, which has been renovated and extended by architecture studio HÛT. Read more

Ten fangs protrude from the sole of each of these shoes, worn by models at the Spring/Summer 2012 show of fashion designer Iris van Herpen. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Perforated metal screens decorate this residential extension built by architecture studio Welsh + Major in a three-metre-wide gap next to a converted grain mill. Read more View the full article

Mexican firm Reyes Rios + Larrain Arquitectos has covered the walls of an apartment complex in Tulum in stucco that is pigmented pink to contrast pockets of greenery. Read more View the full article

When it comes to contemporary architecture, San Francisco is a stubborn town. But could change be coming at last? Proposals by high-profile architects such as OMA, Studio Gang and Foster + Partners could bring a more dramatic skyline and a transformed waterfront – if San Francisco's notoriously persnickety planning system and pressure groups let them (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

World Architecture Festival: in this movie we filmed, architect Vo Trong Nghia explains how the house he designed with a vertical garden on its facade incorporates natural daylighting and ventilation systems that are invaluable in Vietnam, which experiences heavy rain and high temperatures, but often suffers day-long power shortages. (more…) View the full article

Drawing Architecture Studio has enclosed the balcony of a two-bedroom apartment in Beijing to make it resemble the front facade of a typical detached house. Read more

Architect Dong-Ping Wong will speak to Dezeen in a live Screentime conversation sponsored by Enscape as part of Virtual Design Festival. Interview will begin at 2pm UK time. Read more View the full article

Oki Sato explains how Nendo's chair for Republic of Fritz Hansen follows circular design principles, in this exclusive video filmed by Dezeen at the Japanese design studio's office in Milan. Read more View the full article

Estonian architects KAMP have completed a timber house outside Tallinn that’s cranked around an oak tree. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dublin designers Notion have established their own design brand called NTN with an inaugural collection featuring wooden sunglasses, an aluminium watch and a table with a hammock underneath (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Today's round up of design-related coronavirus stories includes a delay in artist Christo's plans to wrap a Paris landmark in fabric and an invention to open doors with your shoe. Read more View the full article

A photographer and his family live in this boxy house clad in cedar that architecture practice Ras-A Studio has designed near the ocean in Los Angeles County. Read more View the full article

Dezeen Screen: in this movie filmed at our micro-exhibition Dezeen Platform, Estonian designer Evelin Kasikov talks about her CMYK embroidery, a series of hand-made prints that replace inks with thread. Watch the movie » </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Two stone-walled volumes with grassy roofs are embedded into a rural site in Ecuador to form this house, designed by Quito's Rama Estudio. Read more

Music: director Kévin Bray used face-tracking and 3D-scanning technology to create digital doubles of musician Gwilym Gold for the video to accompany his Greener World track. (more…) View the full article

Ron Arad speaks to Dezeen in this live discussion as part of Virtual Design Festival's collaboration with the British-Israeli designer and architect. Watch the conversation live from 2pm UK time. Read more View the full article

Amsterdam museum Looiersgracht 60 is hosting a solo exhibition of work by Dutch designer Aldo Bakker that consists of just five jugs. (more…) View the full article