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This week's job of the week on Dezeen Jobs is a position for architects at Herzog & de Meuron, whose M+ museum design in Hong Kong's new West Kowloon Cultural District is pictured. Visit the ad for full details or browse other architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs. View the full article

This week, the longlists for the inaugural Dezeen Awards were revealed and Foster + Partners overhauled its plans for an Apple Store on Federation Square in Melbourne. Read more View the full article

Dezeen promotion: in our latest competition, Dezeen has partnered with Fritz Hansen to give away two Series 7 chairs, which are being offered with Italian velvet upholstery for the first time. Read more View the full article

Dezeen Wire: Dutch architect Herman Hertzberger has been named as the recipient of this year’s Royal Gold Medal for architecture. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Kiev design brand Faina looked to traditional local materials for items of furniture made from clay, wood, willow and flax that tell the story of Ukraine's design roots. Read more

Chocolate manufacturer Barry Callebaut has set up a dedicated 3D-printing studio for desserts, providing chefs with an opportunity to create bespoke designs that can be reproduced at scale. Read more View the full article

With her latest exhibition, British artist Laura Oldfield Ford is more likely to change your understanding of London's working-class landscape than any architect or designer, says Owen Hatherley in this Opinion column. Read more View the full article

Architecture firm Woods Bagot has designed a modular system that can adapt apartments to make them suited to working, playing and cooking, as people spend more time at home because of the coronavirus. Read more View the full article

Greece has been criticised for plans to erect a floating barrier in the sea to deter people crossing by boat, in a project reminiscent of Trump's border wall. Read more View the full article

In the fifth week of the Virtual Design Festival, we interviewed Standard Architecture and Sauerbruch Hutton, as well as launching an exclusive series of videos about Archigram. Read more View the full article

This week's Dezeen Mail newsletter includes an interview with Rem Koolhaas on the Venice Architecture Biennale and a house with an infinity pool on its roof, plus the latest news, jobs, competitions and reader comments from Dezeen. Read Dezeen Mail issue 205 | Subscribe to Dezeen Mail View the full article

Dezeen promotion: Spanish furniture manufacturer Sancal has refurbished its production facility with colourful murals and geometric signage, to mark its 40th birthday. (more...) View the full article

A walkable concrete roof on thin steel stilts connects and shades the textured brick blocks of a training centre in Hanoi by Vo Trong Nghia Architects. Read more

Skull-shaped vases and horse candleholders feature in a collection of ornate accessories designed for IKEA by Swedish ceramic and glass artist Per B Sundberg. Read more View the full article

Architect Patrik Schumacher and TV presenter Michelle Ogundehin will be joined by artist-designers Jaime Hayon and Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg to judge the third edition of Dezeen Awards. Read more View the full article

Swedish studio Belatchew Arkitekter wants to transform a Stockholm skyscraper into a wind farm by covering it in thousands of electricity-generating bristles. (more...) 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

Architects and master planners from across the globe are invited to submit masterplan proposals for three new islands that are set to be developed in Penang, Malaysia. Read more View the full article

Rooms topped with chimney-like roofs surround a secluded courtyard to from this house in Kent, England, which takes its angular form and russet colouring from the area's hop-drying oast towers. Read more View the full article

The all-white panel of architects gathered by Woods Bagot to discuss Los Angeles' future urban development last week was embarrassingly misrepresentative of the city's diversity and needs, argues Janelle Zara. Read more View the full article

James Garvan Architecture has added gabled timber-batten screens to the facade of this house in Sydney, which is meant to mimic the form of a neighbouring property. Read more View the full article

A chunky pink-plaster counter dominates the otherwise sparse interior of this cafe in Al Ain, Abu Dhabi, which has been revamped by design studio Bone. Read more View the full article

News: following this week’s news that the UK government is restricting curved and glass walls on new school buildings, Aberrant Architecture‘s Kevin Haley and David Chambers are urging the Department of Education to look to the standardised schools designed by Oscar Niemeyer for Brazil in the 1980s, which the architects are presenting in the British Pavilion for the Venice Architecture Biennale. (more…) View the full article

A two-bed intensive care unit within a shipping container, designed by Italian architects Carlo Ratti and Italo Rota, has been built at a hospital in Turin and is being used to treat patients fighting the coronavirus. Read more View the full article

London remained in the spotlight this week, as everyone was talking about Thomas Heatherwick’s design for the Olympic Cauldron (above), which was finally unveiled at the opening ceremony of the games on Friday night. (more…) View the full article