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American firm Studio MM Architect has created a modern holiday dwelling for a forested site in upstate New York, which features a giant front door and a garage for its car-lover owner. Read more View the full article

See the latest from our new and improved recruitment site Dezeen Jobs, including positions with Nike, Design, Bitches and Caruso St John Architects, the firm behind Damien Hirst's Newport Street Gallery (pictured). This is also the last chance to apply for roles with RIBA, the V&A, British Airways and more... (more…) View the full article

Australian firm BVN Donovan Hill has completed a plant research facility in New South Wales offering laboratories and archive facilities dedicated to the preservation of indigenous seeds (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Stepped bookshelves help to divide and characterise this house just outside of Paris, renovated by Italian architect Andrea Mosca. Read more View the full article

There are plenty of opportunities for recent graduates and junior architects on Dezeen Jobs right now. Here are five of the best roles for Part 2 architectural assistants in London, including positions at Craftworks and Arup. Read more

This week on Dezeen, the Glastonbury Festival in Somerset, England, hit the headlines as Stormzy wore a stab-proof vest designed by Bansky and Dezeen covered some of the event's best sets and installations. Read more

Children's suitcase brand Trunki has lost its legal battle with Hong Kong rival Kiddee, after the UK's Supreme Court ruled that design rights had not been infringed. (more…) View the full article

Opinion: in a special Valentine's column, Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs explains why designers have dumped dowdy green design in favour of glamorous robots. (more...) View the full article

Steel loops of varying size can be twisted and contorted to make a variety of shapes in this customisable lighting system. (more...) View the full article

The controversial Thomas Heatherwick-designed Garden Bridge is to come under further scrutiny, as London mayor Sadiq Khan has announced a review to assess whether the project provides value for money. (more…) View the full article

Architecture studio MAPA borrowed elements and colours typically used on colonial-style Chilean houses to create this bright red residence in a winemaking region near Santiago. (more...) View the full article

Bespoke racing wheelchairs designed and manufactured by UK firm Draft will be used by a number of medal hopefuls during the London 2012 Paralympics, including Beijing gold medalist David Weir and London Marathon winner Shelly Woods (below). (more…) View the full article

Exhausted parents can stay in bed while this bassinet designed by Yves Behar rocks their babies back to sleep with a "womb-like motion" whenever it hears them cry. Read more View the full article

We continue our high-tech architecture series with a profile of Michael and Patty Hopkins, who designed one of the movement's most pragmatic buildings – Hopkins House – and went on to develop historicist high-tech architecture. Read more View the full article

News: the American Institute of Architects (AIA) has announced 28 winners of this year's Institute Honor Awards, including projects by OMA, BIG and Kohn Pedersen Fox. (more...) View the full article

Dezeen Super Store is now open at 38 Monmouth Street in the Seven Dials district of Covent Garden, London. The micro-department store brings together our designer watch boutique Dezeen Watch Store, our pop-up design concept The Temporium and our Designed in Hackney Shop so drop by if you’re in town! Dezeen Super Store 38 Monmouth Street, London WC2 1 July – 30 September 2012 Monday to Saturday: 11am to 7pm Sunday: 11am to 5pm View the full article

Philips Lighting, the world's largest lighting company, has announced its move into emerging technology LiFi – LEDs that can wirelessly transmit data at high speeds. Read more View the full article

Toronto-based illustrator Tom Ngo has updated his drawing series of "architectural absurdities" with additions including a building made of stairs and an impossible lighthouse. (more...) View the full article

East London design brand Hulger has launched a second design for its award-winning Plumen low-energy lightbulbs. (more...) View the full article

This artist's studio, which architecture firm FAR has added to a Los Angeles house, includes a large plastic door that folds in half and a rooftop covered in blue tiles. Read more View the full article

There's an upside-down living room on the ceiling of this Polish fashion boutique created by design studio smallna for fashion brand Risk. Made in Warsaw (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

US firm Bohlin Cywinski Jackson has looked to Williamsburg's industrial past to inform its interior for the first Apple Store in Brooklyn (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

The copper tubes that branch across the walls and ceiling of this Amsterdam barber shop by Ard Hoksbergen carry both water and electricity (though not in the same pipes). (more…) View the full article

Slideshow: we’ve already featured three artists’ studios from Canadian Fogo Island, making this wooden hut on legs the fourth (photographs by Bent René Synnevåg). (more…) View the full article

Scroll on for all the latest from our recruitment site Dezeen Jobs, including positions with us at Dezeen, Marc Newson, UNStudio, and Stanton Williams, plus this is the last chance to apply for roles with Studio Egret West, HawkinsBrown and more… (more…) View the full article