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We've selected five interior design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs this week, including vacancies at London interior design studio Joyce Wang and French architecture firm Nicolas Laisné Architectes. Read more View the full article

Scroll on for all the latest from our recruitment site Dezeen Jobs, including positions with Martha Schwartz Partners, the University of Melbourne and UNStudio, which unveiled designs for a 60-metre tower in Munich last week (pictured). Plus this is the last chance to apply for roles with Heatherwick Studio, Studio Fuksas, OMA and more... (more...) View the full article

Design studio Minorpoet has overhauled a 1960s apartment in Tokyo to create a simple home and workplace that has its kitchen hidden behind folding wooden doors (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Slideshow: German architects Schneider+Schumacher have completed an underground gallery that creates a bulge beneath the lawn of the Staedel Museum in Frankfurt. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen promotion: a surfboard for the city, smart boxing gloves and "the world's first" open-source greenhouse are among the winners of the LaunchBox new product contest. (more...) View the full article

Highlights from the PechaKucha Inspire Japan project, launched following the earthquake and tsunami that hit the country this time last year, have been compiled in an e-book that’s now available to download free from iBookstores. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

31/44 Architects shows how London's 19th-century townhouses can be brought into the 21st century, with this three-home development in Peckham. Read more View the full article

The best hotels around the world offer guests an authentic local experience, say AHEAD Global awards jury members in this movie Dezeen produced for the awards programme. Read more

Both Amanda Levete's MAAT museum and the Lisbon Architecture Triennale opened in the Portuguese capital earlier this month. Together they prove that architecture is physically shaped by its fiscal situation, says Mimi Zeiger in this week's Opinion. Read more View the full article

These newly released photographs show the undulating timber-clad form of the Katuaq Cultural Centre of Greenland, which Danish firm Schmidt Hammer Lassen credits as being its "breakthrough" project. Read more View the full article

Spikes made from semi-precious stones break out between the heels and platforms of these shoes by fashion designer Iris van Herpen and shoe brand United Nude. (more…) View the full article

Curator Aric Chen and designer Thomas Thwaites discuss their work in the second part of our Virtual Design Festival collaboration with The World Around, which also features short films by Kalyanee Mam and Apichatpong Weerasthakul. Read more View the full article

Bangkok designer Apiwat Chitapanya has created a collection for specialist brass furniture brand Masaya that emulates Chinese ink paintings through the process of lost-wax casting. Read more

Opinion: the visual style associated with cinema's super-villains has been transformed into a marketable asset for house builders, says Owen Hatherley. (more…) View the full article

With 15 days left to take advantage of reduced early-entry rates for Dezeen Awards 2020, here are 15 reasons why architects, interior designers and designers should enter now. Read more View the full article

A coloured concrete canopy supported by large columns forms this gateway designed by Swiss architect Valerio Olgiati for the Pearling Path, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Bahrain. Read more

Slideshow: this wooden cabin in Iceland by Reykjavik studio Arkís is split into asymmetric apartments with roofs that slope in alternate directions. (more…) View the full article

A new timber and concrete cafe cantilevers out towards the swimming pool at this 1970s hotel in Portugal that has been renovated by Campos Costa Arquitectos (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

As we count down the days to the Dezeen Awards 2020 deadline on 2 June, Steve Trstenjak of Woods Bagot, says that he's hoping to see an "emphasis on sustainability". Read more View the full article

Opinion: Mythbusters may not have been obviously about design, but its high-octane science experiments made viewers think more about the material world than any other TV show, says Will Wiles. (more…) View the full article

Black and white living spaces feature in this 1930s Sydney home designed by Australian studio Arent & Pyke, to let the owner's extensive art collection take centre stage. Read more View the full article

RX Architects incorporated part of an unfinished building into this house with a cantilevered upper story on the Rye Nature Reserve in East Sussex, England. Read more View the full article

Cults, memes and incel culture informed The 1975's music video for their song The Birthday Party, which sees band members transformed into digital avatars. Read more View the full article

Dezeen Watch Store: new to Dezeen Watch Store this week is this silicone version of the Vigorelli timepiece designed by Matteo Ragni for Lorenz: (more…) View the full article

Architecture firm Foster + Partners has released a fresh set of renderings showing its Oceanwide Center development for San Francisco's downtown area, which gained planning approval earlier this year (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article