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Our job of the day from Dezeen Jobs is for Mandarin-speaking architects at Italian practice Studio Fuksas, which was selected to design a major convention centre in Canberra (pictured). See more from Studio Fuksas or browse other architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs. View the full article

Royal College of Art graduate Chang-Yeob Lee has developed a concept to transform the BT Tower in London into a pollution-harvesting high rise (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

The shortlist for this year's RIBA Stirling Prize and Airbnb's rebrand fiasco lead this week's Dezeen Mail issue 211. Click through for the latest news, jobs and reader comments from Dezeen. Read Dezeen Mail issue 211 | Subscribe to Dezeen Mail View the full article

Courtyard gardens bite through the walls of this cafe in Japan by Tokyo studio Hiroyuki Shinozaki Architects (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Architecture studio Wutopia Lab has renovated the Hubei Foreign Language Bookstore in Wuhan, China, inserting a shard-like glass lightwell that pierces through six stories. Read more View the full article

Slabs of concrete create sunshades that look like open shutters for the windows of this house in Argentina, designed by architect duo Santiago Carlos Viale and Daniella Beviglia (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Australian designer Trent Jansen has created a collection of furniture shaped to resemble scaly and hairy monsters from his country's myths. Read more View the full article

Reactions to a Zaha Hadid project for Beijing being copied by a developer in another Chinese city lead Dezeen Mail issue 133, which also features the latest news, jobs and reader comments from Dezeen. Read Dezeen Mail issue 133 | Subscribe to Dezeen Mail View the full article

This movie by German art director Mike Meiré for bathroom and kitchen brand Dornbracht features one shower that makes you feel like you're washing outdoors and another that you use lying down. (more...) View the full article

3D printing and scanning was hot on the agenda again in March, when a fully articulated dress was printed and worn by Dita Von Teese (pictured) and space architects planned to print a lunar base. (more...) View the full article

Herzog & de Meuron’s 1111 Lincoln Road multi-storey car park in Miami Beach also plays host to parties, yoga classes and weddings, explains proprietor Robert Wennett in this movie produced by filmmaker Elizabeth Priore (+ photographs by Hufton + Crow). (more…) View the full article

Tuñón Arquitectos has completed Casa de Piedra, a house in the town of Cáceres, Spain, which is built from solid stone and laid out in a grid of nine cube-shaped rooms. Read more

Our recap of the week on Dezeen leads with our most popular and most commented story, the news that a Zaha Hadid-designed building has been pirated in China. Also, scroll on for Dezeen Music Project track of the week. (more...) View the full article

London's Gallery Fumi is showing a collection of pieces at the PAD Paris fair encompassing new work by designers and artists including Study O Portable, Glithero and Johannes Nagel (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Patalab Architecture has won approval to build a nine-storey office block from shipping containers, which will be the world's tallest building made from the modular structures. Read more

The developer behind Foster + Partners' 3 Sutton Place tower on Manhattan's East Side, originally planned to be 290-metres tall, lost a fight to block foreclosure proceedings on the site before declaring itself bankrupt this week. (more…) View the full article

Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Dave Hakkens' concept for a mobile phone made of detachable blocks has gone viral, attracting over 16 million views on YouTube and garnering almost a million supporters online (+ movie + interview). (more...) View the full article

Dutch Design Week 2014: smells of sweat, grease and metal waft from the glass tubes of this installation, created by Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Mickaël Wiesengrün to add historical context to its setting in a former factory. (more...) View the full article

A multifunctional furniture unit made up of raised plywood floors and pegboard walls allows residents in this public-housing complex in Osaka to customise their apartments. Read more View the full article

Dutch architecture practice Eklund Terbeek has developed a spacious loft-style apartment for a family of four inside a school gymnasium in Rotterdam, which is over 100 years old. Read more

Protruding bricks texture the walls of this extension to an early 20th-century house in north London, which was designed by Pamphilon Architects for a fashion designer client. Read more View the full article

British sculptor Antony Gormley has filled a Parisian gallery with an impenetrable structure made from grids of steel, and an army of figures made from stacked metal cubes (+ slideshow). (more…)

Photo essay: Montpellier-based photographer Mary Gaudin has created a series of images documenting mid-century residential architecture in New Zealand, her home country. (more…) View the full article

News: Dutch city Nijmegen has launched a catalogue of affordable architect-designed housing kits for first-time buyers. (more...) View the full article

Vine Architecture Studio has used an array of warm and natural materials to deck out the living spaces and extension of this Victorian-era home in south London, which was previously a coach house. Read more