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Suzanne O'Connell of Hackney studio The Decorators introduces a temporary restaurant in a local market and a community event on top of a multi-storey car park in this movie filmed by Dezeen at our Designed in Hackney Day. (more...) View the full article

Spanish architects Anna and Eugeni Bach have renovated an ageing Barcelona apartment to show off its mosaic floors and decorative ceiling mouldings. (more...) View the full article

Scroll on for all the latest from our recruitment site Dezeen Jobs, including positions with Alison Brooks Architects (whose South Chase suburban housing development is shown above), Matteo Thun & Partners and Benjamin Hubert Studio, plus this is the last chance to apply for roles with Calvin Klein, MAD, Archi Union and Nestle and more... (more...) View the full article

An inflatable pavilion with a trampoline on top has been installed in east London by Paris architects Atelier Zündel Cristea (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

News: Swanke Hayden Connell Architects – the firm behind the Fifth Avenue Trump Tower and the Statue of Liberty restoration – has filed for bankruptcy, claiming that it is owed $2 million dollars by a Russian client. (more…) View the full article

Our job of the week on Dezeen Jobs is a position for an architect with East China Architectural Design & Research Institute in Shanghai, who collaborated with Dutch firm OMA on the CCTV Headquarters in Beijing (pictured). Visit the ad for full details or browse other architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs. View the full article

A concrete volume projects from the top of a sand dune to form the upper level of this holiday home on the Argentinian coastline by local architect Luciano Kruk (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

News: furniture designer Charles Pollock has died in a house fire in New York, aged 83. (more...) View the full article

Product news: German designer Annika Frye has designed a rotation-moulded lighting range with visible seams (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

An ancient Icelandic calendar influenced the layout and interiors in this Reykjavík hotel designed by local architects TARK and HAF (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Researchers at Italian design centre Fabrica have created accessories that would deceive neuroimaging devices by diverting thoughts using electric shocks and flashing lights (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

News: the American Institute of Architects (AIA) has announced 26 winners for this year's Institute Honor Awards, including a holocaust museum beneath a hill in Los Angeles, a stone mausoleum in Minneapolis, and a concrete house on a rocky outcrop in Washington (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

A dramatic oak staircase with a sweeping handrail connects the five storeys of this Victorian convent building in south London, which has been converted into four homes by John Smart Architects (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

This system of illustrated characters and animations was developed to help people learn to read Chinese, and is one of the 76 projects nominated for Designs of the Year 2014 (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

In our second story today about Ron Arad, the London designer's Tom Vac chair has been reinterpreted by more than 20 design studios into forms including swings, speakers and a representation of an udder. (more...) View the full article

British artist David Shrigley has designed his first ceramics collection for the Gallery at Sketch on London's Conduit Street, as part of the restaurant's programme of artist collaborations (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Lego's new set of building blocks aimed at the architecture and design community, Zaha Hadid's hotel in Dubai and the first photographs of FAT's fairytale house made the headlines this week. Read on for more architecture and design highlights, plus our Dezeen Music Project track of the week. (more...) View the full article

Comments update: the editor of one of Italy's leading design magazines told Dezeen that Milan was still the "international capital of design", adding fresh fuel to the fiery debate about Italy's significance in the design industry. (more...) View the full article

Moveable library-style shelving units slide from side to side to reveal and hide compartments that serve various functions in this Spanish apartment by Madrid-based PKMN Architectures (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Philippe Starck's aluminium Icon Chair for American furniture brand Emeco is today's offering in our A-Zdvent calendar for 2014. (more…) View the full article

News: a company has been set up to work on and deliver Elon Musk's high-speed Hyperloop transport system, which uses magnets and fans to propel passenger capsules through a network of pipes. (more…) View the full article

Milan 2015: Milan's furniture fair has become a celebration of marketing over design and has helped feed the public perception of design as a superficial discipline, according to design critic Alice Rawsthorn. (more…)

Australian studio Made Group has completed a pool house for a Melbourne home with a faceted timber ceiling inspired by origami (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

The Invisible Design Project educational programme has worked with visually impaired students to launch the "first furniture line designed by blind people" (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Buckminster Fuller's principles of tensegrity informed the structural design of the Kurilpa Bridge in Brisbane, the latest addition to the Dezeen A-Zdvent calendar. (more…) View the full article