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Chicago Architecture Biennial 2015: US firm Aranda\Lasch has unveiled plans for an art park for a Chinese-Indonesian philanthropist, proposed on terraced rice paddies in the Bali countryside (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Partial deconstruction of the Glasgow School of Art is set to begin "as soon as possible", following a fire that largely destroyed the building earlier this month. Read more View the full article

Belgian practice MDW Architecture has completed a residential complex in Brussels using industrial materials that reference the site’s former use as a scrap metal dealership (photos by Julien Lanoo). (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen and MINI Frontiers: in this movie, designer and researcher Amy Congdon explains how tissue engineering could be used to grow new biological textiles for the fashion industry. (more…)

VDF products fair: L03 is a minimal wooden bench designed by Studio Eva Natasa, intended to "ignite more social interaction among people". Read more View the full article

Slideshow: overlapping openings in the walls and ceilings of this Tokyo house by Japanese architects Suppose Design Office create dozens of views between rooms. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Our US job of the week on Dezeen Jobs is for a senior visual designer at online fashion title Vogue.com in New York. Visit the ad for full details or browse other architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs. View the full article

Our job of the day from Dezeen Jobs is for a Part-II architectural assistant to join London-based studio Cousins & Cousins, whose recent extension to a house in Hackney features a spiralling steel-wrapped staircase. More › View the full article

Dezeen has created a short video guide of high-tech architecture from A to Z as the final part of our high-tech architecture series. Read more View the full article

Glass screens fold across the front of this house in Yamanashi, Japan, to transform a covered garden into an indoor dining room. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Slideshow: the dark-rendered exterior walls of this house in Switzerland screen top-floor terraces at either end. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Students don't need to take creative subjects at school as they are already exposed to creative processes thanks to mobile phones, according to the author of a new government-commissioned report on the UK's creative sector. Read more View the full article

A horizontal shower replaces the bathtub in German bathroom brand Dornbracht's futuristic six-square-metre home spa, designed for small-space living. Read more View the full article

Belgian design duo Fien Muller and Hannes Van Severen aimed to explore the possibilities of aluminium tubing in their latest furniture collection, which sees metal pipes lined up in welded rows. Read more View the full article

Sinuous balconies surround a multipurpose space at the centre of this language school in the town of Ikast, Denmark, by Scandinavian firm C.F. Møller. (more...) View the full article

A slide and bright yellow ladder are among the playful interventions employed by Alter & Company in its modernisation of a farm in Surrey, England. Read more View the full article

News: Italian architecture and design magazine Abitare is to end the publication of its monthly print edition. (more...) View the full article

As Italy's furniture industry struggles to bounce back after the recession, has Copenhagen regained its place as Europe's design capital? Dan Howarth investigates. (more...) View the full article

Dezeen archive: this week readers have been debating whether the proliferation of perforated facades in projects like David Adjaye’s Smithsonian Museum (top right) is a result of fashion or shifts in practical considerations like availability and cost, so we’ve grouped all our stories about perforated metal facades in one place. Join the discussion about fashion in architecture here and see all the stories here. See all our archive stories » </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Opinion: when the Tour Montparnasse was built in Paris, its residents were so appalled they banned all high-rises. Londoners should do something similar in the wake of Rafael Viñoly's walkie talkie, says Owen Hatherley. (more…) View the full article

Atlanta architect Alexander Wu chose one of the city's smallest properties to build this home for his family. Read more

Dezeen and MINI World Tour: Colin Seah of Ministry of Design shows us examples of how Singapore is responding to the challenge of housing a growing population without sacrificing its green spaces in our second movie from the city. (more...) View the full article

Scroll on for all the latest from our recruitment site Dezeen Jobs, including positions with Theis + Khan (who designed Bateman's Row, pictured above, which was shortlisted for the 2010 RIBA Stirling Prize), SOA Architects, MAD Architects and Tom Dixon, plus this is the last chance to apply for roles with Foster + Partners, Habitat, Russell Sage Studio and more... (more...) View the full article

Disney's research company is developing a method for printing electrostatic loudspeakers in any shape – with trials including a rubber duck and a spiral. (more...) View the full article

New York's MoMA is staging an exhibition that showcases Neri Oxman's research at MIT Media Lab with projects that "challenge the status quo of architectural design". Read more View the full article