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Dezeen Jobs has launched a new advertising campaign featuring people who have met the perfect match through the site. Read more View the full article

New York architect Rafael de Cárdenas has created a split-level bar in Nordstrom's flagship store in Midtown Manhattan. Read more View the full article

Canadian writer James Bow is facing a legal battle with the management of Toronto's CN Tower, which claims his use of an image of the building on a book cover is a trade mark violation. Read more

This week on Dezeen, RIBA revealed the six projects shortlisted for this year's Stirling Prize, while IKEA unveiled its new collaboration with Hay. Read more View the full article

Carmody Groarke, RE-ST and TRANS Architectuur Stedenbouw have designed an extension to the design museum in Ghent, Belgium, which will form a link between its existing galleries. Read more View the full article

Venice Architecture Biennale 2014: the Korean Pavilion curated by Mass Studies founder Minsuk Cho has been awarded the Golden Lion for best pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2014. (more...) View the full article

Ploypan Theerachai of THINKK Studio has designed a series of three upholstered space dividers weighted down with marble slabs. (more…) View the full article

Exposed brick walls, rugged wooden ceiling beams and chunky wooden staircases with zigzagging undersides feature inside this office block in London, recently renovated by Amin Taha Architects (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Australian designer Jordana Maisie has created a Manhattan boutique for upscale shoe brand Feit that features asymmetrical display areas made of thin sheets of wood (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Staggering a series of parallel spaces, architect and Columbia University professor Lydia Xynogala has created a hillside home on Skiathos where rooms have secluded terraces facing the ocean. Read more View the full article

Dutch architecture studio GAAGA designed an asymmetrical facade to make these two houses in Leiden look like only one. (more…) View the full article

The industrial landscape of Hong Kong informed the design of this concrete and steel side table by Italian designer Andrea Ponti (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Five years ago this week the Zaha Hadid – Architecture and Design exhibition opened at the Design Museum in London and Dezeen were reporting live from the show as well as running the exhibition blog. (more…) View the full article

This week Peter Zumthor was named as winner of the Royal Gold Medal for architecture, an undulating golden extension to the Louvre (above) opened in Paris and open-source blueprints for 3D-printed guns were released. (more…) View the full article

Clerkenwell Design Week 2013: new table sizes and a matching bench have been added to London designer Mathias Hahn's E8 range of colourful wooden furniture. (more...) View the full article

Architecture firm Tham & Videgård has turned a former Stockholm design college into a members club that aims to make creative professionals feel "a little spoiled". Read more View the full article

Milan's Salone del Mobile furniture fair looks set to be cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic, according to multiple reports in the Italian press. Read more View the full article

This year's Oslo Architecture Triennale looks at degrowth, an economic that calls for a reduction of both production and consumption, and asks what architecture could do to support it. Dezeen editor-at-large Amy Frearson picks out 10 of the most interesting ideas. Read more View the full article

Hiroshi Hara's monumental Kyoto Station features in the latest short movie by architecture video blogger Martin van der Linden, as part of his contribution to Virtual Design Festival. Read more View the full article

Two terraces in Melbourne have been joined together and given an extension with a zigzag roof by Austin Maynard Architects. Read more View the full article

Jasper Morrison has enlisted 18 designers including Martino Gamper, Inga Sempé and Cecilie Manz to create benches for Fiskars Village in Finland, for its inaugural art and design biennale. Read more

Official statistics published by the UK government reveal that white males are dominating the creative industries, and that digital is challenging design to become the nation's key creative sector. Read more View the full article

Following yesterday’s story about a skyscraper that resembles a pair of trousers (above), here are some more looky-likey towers including one that readers have compared to a stack of toilet rolls and another that looks like a sex toy. (more…) View the full article

Chunky wooden ribs bend around the walls and ceiling of this library in Norway by Helen & Hard Architects and integrate lighting, bookshelves and seating. (more…) View the full article

Our US job of the week on Dezeen Jobs is for a junior store planner at international clothing retailer GUESS?. Visit the ad for full details or browse other architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs. View the full article