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Our selection of the most promising architecture and design roles on Dezeen Jobs this week includes positions at MAD and WilkinsonEyre. Read more

This film created for design video channel Nowness gives a tour around legendary Mexican architect Luis Barragán's last house – a bachelor pad turned family home in Mexico City. Read more View the full article

Dezeen promotion: Shigeru Ban, Lucy McRae and Carlo Ratti are among speakers taking part in the first and& conference in Belgium, which will explore the impact of health, technology and creativity on cities. Read more View the full article

Three different shapes rendered in three distinct materials come together in the Elements table, launching at Biennale Interieur this week. Read more View the full article

Czech designer Maxim Velčovský presents a series of porcelain vases cast from snow at the London Design Festival, which starts today. (more...) View the full article

Stuttgart architecture studio Metaraum has completed a bus station in the German city of Pforzheim, featuring curving canopies that swoop up and over waiting areas (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Our job of the week is a position for a graphic designer at London firm Wilkinson Eyre Architects, winner of the World Building of the Year Award last month with their Gardens By the Bay tropical gardens in Singapore (shown above). Visit the ad for full details or browse many other architecture and design job opportunities on Dezeen Jobs. View the full article

London Design Festival 2013: London studio Industrial Facility has created a range of stacking containers to store desktop items for American office furniture manufacturer Herman Miller. (more...) View the full article

See the latest from our recruitment site Dezeen Jobs, including positions with BIG, SOM and Danish designer Cecilie Manz, whose projects include a collection of angular aluminium lampshades (pictured). This is also the last chance to apply for roles with Grimshaw, Foster + Partners, NBBJ and more... (more…) View the full article

Edinburgh College of Art student Peter Trimble has built a portable machine for manufacturing furniture from sand, urine and bacteria (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Italian curator and critic Beatrice Leanza has joined the Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology in Lisbon as its new executive director. Read more

The angled columns of an earthquake-proof structure frame a series of window slits on the exterior of this Tokyo research laboratory by KINO Architects (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Kitchen and bathroom equipment is lowered into islands made from engineered quartz material Caesarstone in this animated preview of an installation for the brand by London studio Raw Edges, to be unveiled in Milan next month (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

Following a series of stories about Spanish residences with tiled floors here's a renovated early twentieth-century house in Barcelona featuring a mixture of old and new tiles. (more...) View the full article

Italian architect Renzo Piano has finished a major new park, library and theatre complex in Athens, following one of the largest donations for a cultural building project in history (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Neri&Hu has released a short movie showing the faceted concrete Aranya Art Center, which recently opened in Qinhuangdao, China. Read more

London studio Jonathan Tuckey Design has converted a historic chapel in Wiltshire, England, into a house with a blackened-timber extension conceived as the building's shadow. (more...) View the full article

News: furniture giant Ikea has used its expertise in flat-pack design to redesign refugee shelters. (more...) View the full article

Dezeen promotion: the Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam is accepting applications to study on its Master of Interior Architecture & Retail Design (MIARD) course. (more...) View the full article

The upper storey of this concrete house by Clavel Arquitectos cantilevers out from the lower storey by 10 metres, stretching towards mountain views in Spain's Murcia region (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Invisible Studio has built a gymnasium for a hotel in Somerset, which is designed as one giant window so that the building has a minimal impact on its garden setting. Read more

MAD co-founder Ma Yansong says that Chinese cities should draw more from the country's traditional architecture, rather than aping the style of western buildings, in the second part of our exclusive video interview. Read more View the full article

Our US job of the week on Dezeen Jobs is for a senior architect at MAD Architects in New York, the firm behind the £260 million design for the George Lucas Museum of narrative art in Chicago (pictured). Visit the ad for full details or browse other architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs. View the full article

The 30,000-capacity Kosovo National Stadium, which will be located in Drenas, will become the new home for the Kosovo national football team. Read more

New York designer Francis Bitonti worked with students to 3D-print this dress using commercially available MakerBot machines (+ movie). (more...) View the full article