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Dezeen archive: reflective architecture has cropped up a few times on Dezeen recently, so we've compiled all our stories about mirrored buildings. See all the stories here » See all our archive stories » View the full article

Our job of the week on Dezeen Jobs is a position for an industrial design architect at Grimshaw in London. The firm recently submitted plans for a 90-storey skyscraper (pictured) in Sydney. See more stories about Grimshaw on Dezeen here. Visit the ad for full details or browse other architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs here. View the full article

Two hundred and seventy six teacups are suspended from the ceiling of this coffee shop in Bucharest by Romanian studio Lama Architectura (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

News: the Design Museum in London has sold its Thames-side building to architect Zaha Hadid for use as an archive of her studio's architecture. (more...) View the full article

News: NASA is testing an unmanned aerial vehicle that would scope out the terrain of the red planet to decide the best routes for rover vehicles to explore (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

Crinkled polished metal wraps around this electrical testing facility in northern Spain by ACXT Architects (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

News: Zaha Hadid's extension to the Serpentine Gallery has opened today in London's Kensington Gardens (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

The folded concrete walls of this lakeside visitor centre in China's Anhui Province were designed by architects Archiplein to mimic the uneven surfaces of the surrounding mountains (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

News: John Pawson has become the latest designer of a holiday home for Alain de Botton's Living Architecture project with his proposal for a black brick lodge in the Welsh countryside (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Russian product designer Ilya Tkach has created a simple desk lamp featuring a light source that snaps onto its stem with a magnet. (more...) View the full article

Opinion: Justin McGuirk argues that despite the furniture industry's decline in Italy, it's still the best place to buy a sofa until the digital manufacturing revolution delivers on its promises. (more...) View the full article

Competition: Dezeen has teamed up with London's Design Museum to give readers the chance to win five pairs of tickets for the upcoming Designs of the Year 2014 exhibition. (more...) View the full article

This weekend cabin in a Washington national park, by Seattle architect Tom Kundig, features a protective steel exterior that slides across its windows and a floor raised up on stilts to prevent flooding. (more...) View the full article

Tens of thousands of recycled plastic bottles combined to create this cloud-shaped pavilion by Brooklyn architecture and design firm StudioKCA, which has been named one of the winners of the American Institute of Architects' Small Projects Awards. (more...) View the full article

A glazed wall faces out towards the Pacific Ocean at this house in the Japanese resort town of Shirahama by Osaka firm Okuwada Architects Office (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Dezeen and MINI Frontiers: in the final behind-the-scenes movie about our Dezeen and MINI Frontiers exhibition, Pernilla Ohrstedt explains the concept behind her stand design for the show. (more...) View the full article

News: construction has begun on Diller Scofidio + Renfro's skyscraper at 15 Hudson Yards – the first residential tower in New York's new city quarter on stilts. (more…) View the full article

These retail display stands by Berlin designer Till Wiedeck have multiple shelves for presenting monochrome products in the stores of fashion brand COS (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

This timber-clad ski chalet has a crystalline form designed to "shed snow" from the roof and an elevated living room that optimises views across Canada's Whistler Valley (+ slideshow). (more…)

Bjarke Ingels has launched a public crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter to raise funds for a power plant chimney that will blow smoke rings to symbolise CO2 consumption (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

Skyscrapers flanking a Dubai beach, a foliage-covered hotel in a Sri Lankan jungle and an island building recently destroyed by a volcano all feature on a shortlist for architectural photograph of the year (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

OMA has merged a municipal office block from the 1950s with a pixellated steel and glass structure to create a new mixed-use building in Rotterdam's city centre (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

This small showroom by Taylor and Miller for a Brooklyn-based candle and fragrance company is defined by suspended walls made of wood and steel (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Galvez Autunno Arquitectos has completed a cluster of residential buildings in the small Argentinian town of Las Heras, each featuring sloped roofs and black metal cladding (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

See the latest from our recruitment site Dezeen Jobs, including positions with Studio Weave, Heatherwick Studio and Waugh Thistleton Architects, one of the studios pioneering the construction of timber-framed high-rises (pictured). This is also the last chance to apply for roles with Hawkins\Brown Architects, UNStudio, RIBA and more... (more…) View the full article