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Our job of the week is a position for a designer at Morgans Hotel Group in New York. The group has previously worked with well-known designers such as Philippe Starck, Tom Dixon and Marcel Wanders, who designed the Mondrian South Beach hotel in Miami (pictured). Visit the ad for full details or browse many other architecture and design job opportunities on Dezeen Jobs. View the full article

Additive manufacturing got weird this week, with a pavilion-printing robot that behaves like a silk worm and some 3D-printing spider robots using microwaves, solar energy and lunar dust to build on the moon. Read on for our Dezeen Music Project track of the week and other highlights. (more...) View the full article

Milan 2013: these lamps by designer Arik Levy for glass firm Lasvit filter white light through red, green and blue bottle-shaped pendants. (more...) View the full article

London firm Tony Fretton has sandwiched two rows of brick houses between a pair of canals in the town of Den Helder in the Netherlands (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

News: Architectural Association graduate John Naylor has won this year's Foster + Partners Prize with his proposal to introduce bamboo to the construction industry in Haiti, which is still struggling to recover from the 2010 earthquake. (more...) View the full article

Maison&Objet 2015: Basque designer Jean Louis Iratzoki has moulded the shell of a chair from a plant-based polymer that is fully recyclable and biodegradable (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Japanese architect Shigeru Ban completed his Cardboard Cathedral in Christchurch this week. Keep reading for more architecture and design highlights from the past seven days, plus our top track from Dezeen Music Project. (more...) View the full article

Tokyo firm Schemata Architects has created an expandable changing room inside furniture made from shipping crates in this Paris boutique (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Dutch studio Marc Koehler Architects has extended a former primary school in rural Belgium to create a community centre with a folded roof (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Movie: Julia Borghesi of design studio Hassell discusses the hybrid aesthetic of advertising agency Clemenger BBDO's office in Sydney, which topped the office category at last month's Inside Festival. (more...) View the full article

Swedish designers Toki Drobnjakovic and Per Sundberg have renovated an underground strip club in Stockholm to create a workplace where walls are embellished with concrete set against bubble wrap (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

News: London retailer and furniture designer Zeev Aram (pictured) is among figures from the design world awarded in the New Year Honours 2014. (more...) View the full article

Japanese architect Kengo Kuma has added a wooden building with a pointy metal roof to a seaside hotel complex he completed five years ago in Nagasaki, south-west Japan (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

A team in Tokyo has created a head-mounted camera that monitors brain waves and automatically starts recording when the wearer becomes interested in something. (more...) View the full article

Competition: Dezeen and publishers Phaidon have teamed up to give one reader the chance to win a monograph of work by Modernist architect Mies van der Rohe. (more...) View the full article

Milan 2014: Swiss design studio Big-Game will present an oak chair for Japanese brand Karimoku New Standard in Milan next week (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

The latest collection from Italian design brand Discipline includes chopping boards that look like pebbles and a desk tidy object that resembles an apple. (more...) View the full article

Venice Architecture Biennale 2014: curator Rem Koolhaas has used the biennale to announce the end of his "hegemony" over the profession, according to architect Peter Eisenman (+ interview). (more...) View the full article

News: a new London gallery housing the collection of British artist Damien Hirst is set to open next spring in a row of converted and extended theatre warehouses by Caruso St John Architects. (more...) View the full article

London Design Festival 2014: Norwegian design studio Noidoi has designed a multipurpose daybed for contemporary living spaces that are taking on the merged roles of what would once have been separate rooms. (more...) View the full article

News: Zaha Hadid and Norman Foster have been selected to design high-rise hotels in China for Jumeirah Group. (more...) View the full article

This week we featured a barn-like house with a modern interior (pictured), reported on NASA's first 3D-printed object in space and asked the creator of Comic Sans why designers don't like his typeface. Read on for more architecture and design highlights, plus our featured track of the week. (more...) View the full article

News: Michael Graves' seminal Portland Public Services Building will be spared from demolition, despite being described as a "white elephant" and requiring an estimated $95 million for renovation. (more…) View the full article

Dezeen promotion: the Wood Awards: Excellence in Architecture and Product Design is inviting architects and designers in the UK to submit entries for this year's competition. (more…)

Perched on a sloped site along the Hudson River in New York, this house by Foz Design capitalises on its picturesque setting with a living room overlooking the water and an infinity pool facing the woods (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article