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Spanish studio PYO Arquitectos has removed some of the internal walls in a Madrid flat to make it less segregated and bring in more light (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Italian architects Carlo Ratti and Italo Rota have designed an intensive-care pod within a shipping container that could be added to hospitals fighting the coronavirus pandemic. Read more View the full article

News: department store Selfridges has appointed British architect David Chipperfield to redesign the east side of its flagship store on London's Oxford Street. (more...) View the full article

We've selected four exciting positions for graphic designers on Dezeen Jobs this week, including vacancies at The Modern House and Carlo Ratti Associati. Read more

Italian artist Fulvio Morella presents Square the Circle, a range of plates carved using a woodturner, as part of the VDF x Ventura Projects collaboration. Read more View the full article

Graphic designer Jessica Walsh has started her own company after nearly a decade working alongside fellow designer Stefan Sagmeister at New York design studio Sagmeister & Walsh. Read more

Dezeen Watch Store: Italian designer Alessio Romano's latest watch for Projects is based on Japanese ideas of simplicity, with a stripped-back monochrome design. (more…) View the full article

Dutch Design Week 2014: Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Nils Chudy has devised a way to heat liquid in a cup, eliminating the wasted energy associated with boiling excess water in a kettle (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

For its latest store, eyewear brand Ace & Tate enlisted the help of Standard Studio, which created a clean and stripped-back space complete with a colourful artwork. Read more View the full article

Scroll on for all the latest from our recruitment site Dezeen Jobs, including positions with PearsonLloyd (whose SixE chairs are pictured), Aesop and the V&A Museum, plus this is the last chance to apply for roles with Rossana Orlandi, Foster + Partners, Heatherwick Studio, Tom Dixon and more... (more...) View the full article

A kindergarten play area shaped like a mountain surrounded by clouds has been completed by Japanese firm Moriyuki Ochiai Architects (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Architect Elizabeth Diller has praised her inclusion on this year's Time 100 list as a positive step towards gender parity in architecture, but voiced concern that too many female architecture students are not making it into the workplace. Read more View the full article

Japanese architects Shimpei Oda and Tetsuya Tanji made only subtle changes to this unfinished office unit in Nara, to turn it into a design studio. Read more View the full article

This collection of illuminated "totems" designed by Indian lighting brand Klove embodies an unconventional blend of art deco and tribal references. Read more View the full article

Dezeen and MINI Frontiers: designer Eric Klarenbeek, who displayed a chair made out of 3D-printed fungus at Dutch Design Week in October, says the technique could be used to create larger, more complex structures. (more...) View the full article

The natural landscape surrounding Kasthall's factory in Kinna, Sweden informed the patterns and colours used by Ilse Crawford for this collection of rugs, designed for Kasthall. Read more View the full article

News: Adidas has revealed its latest running shoe – combining a flexible knitted upper with a new version of its Boost "energy return" midsole that uses materials usually found in BMW cars (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Guardian architecture and design critic Oliver Wainwright explains seven highlights from his recently published book Inside North Korea to Dezeen. Read more View the full article

Milan designers Spalvieri / Del Ciotto have created a range of calculators, clocks, torches and radios that are made of corn starch. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

News: online home rental brand Airbnb is to replace a set of aluminium chairs at its new San Francisco headquarters after Emeco, the company that makes the original Navy Chair, pointed out that they were fakes. (more...) View the full article

An exhibition celebrating the collaboration between Gucci and Icelandic musician Björk has opened in the Gucci Garden museum in Florence. Read more View the full article

Female architects should "just wait a second" for pay equality according to Santiago Calatrava, who entertained an audience in London by drawing naked women and explaining how his wife had supported his career. Read more View the full article

World Architecture Festival 2012: Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs talks to Wilkinson Eyre Architects‘ Paul Baker in this interview filmed just moments after the firm’s Cooled Conservatories for the Gardens by the Bay tropical gardens in Singapore was named World Building of the Year at the World Architecture Festival today. (more…) View the full article

Danish architecture firm BIG has designed a 58-storey skyscraper for telecommunications company Telus in downtown Calgary, Canada. (more...) View the full article

Opinion: in this week's column, Sam Jacob argues that great architecture can't be evaluated in terms of money or cultural entertainment, but must "speak directly to ideology and love". (more...) View the full article