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Dezeen is giving away three copies of a book filled with interiors, installations, products and more by New York design studio Snarkitecture in this competition. Read more View the full article

Competition: Dezeen is giving readers the chance to win one of 20 pairs of tickets to the Global Design Forum 2014 talks, which take place over five days during the London Design Festival with speakers including designers Tord Boontje (pictured) Gadi Amit and Ab Rogers. (more...) View the full article

This chair by Copenhagen designer Thomas Bentzen for Danish design brand Muuto has armrests made of folded plywood. (more...) View the full article

Architecture studio Feld72 have completed the Maierhof housing estate in the Alpine town of Bludenz, Austria, comprising eight timber buildings in a mountain landscape. Read more

A rotating 10-metre sphere is the centrepiece of the set for British pop group Take That's current world tour, which was designed by Ray Winkler of Stufish. Read more

Photographer Dan Tobin Smith used footage of more than 100 gemstones, blown up to 60 times their size, to create an immersive installation in the basement of Collins Music Hall for London Design Festival. Read more

Spanish design studio Masquespacio have turned a dilapidated Valencia art gallery into an office for a law firm, featuring clusters of empty picture frames on the walls (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

A large tree grows through the centre of this Amsterdam cold pressed juice shop, which local practice Standard Studio designed to reflect the city's hidden green spaces (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

This week we've selected five exciting architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs, including vacancies at international architecture firms OMA and FR-EE. Read more

Our job of the day from Dezeen Jobs is for a creative assistant at The Conran Shop in Marylebone, which showcased Zuza Mengham's exhibition of crystal-shaped resin sculptures for last year's London Design Festival. More › View the full article

American fashion brand Everlane has launched sneakers made from leather, recycled rubber and plastic bottles that it claims are completely carbon neutral. Read more

This steel and glass restaurant extension by Austrian studio Architekten Rüf Stasi Partner juts out over the edge of Karren Mountain in the Austrian Alps (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Faceted white walls frame the entrances to this monochrome auditorium in rural New South Wales by Australian architects Silvester Fuller (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Fashion house Valentino's New York flagship store, with a grey Terrazzo interior by British architect David Chipperfield, has opened to shoppers (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Japanese studio Nendo explored the relationship between people and objects with its Milan design week exhibition, which featured unconventionally shaped hourglasses, flexible container lids and alternatives to the traditional zipper. Read more View the full article

Milan 2013: Fabio Novembre presented these giant skull-shaped chairs for Italian brand Gufram at the Salone Internazionale del Mobile last week. (more...) View the full article

Product news: Northumbria University graduate Josie Morris has created a range of copper-spun pendant lamps with chunky handles. (more...) View the full article

A broken skateboard and fake designer handbags form parts of chairs in this recycled furniture collection, exhibited in Barcelona by designer Curro Claret. (more...) View the full article

Our job of the week is an internship in London with Swedish design group Front. Their work includes the chair Gentle for Italian brand Porro and their Surface Tension Lamp that blows a bubble round itself (pictured above). See all of our stories about their work here. Visit the ad for full details or browse many other architecture and design job opportunities on Dezeen Jobs. View the full article

French artist Didier Faustino has included a salacious hole in the centre of this ornately framed silver mirror. (more…) View the full article

News: the board of directors of non-profit group Architecture for Humanity has confirmed it will file for bankruptcy, but 57 international chapters have pledged to continue working under a new umbrella network. (more…) View the full article

News: American architect Rick Mather, whose projects included the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, UK, and the masterplan for London's Southbank, has died aged 75. (more...) View the full article

Yves Behar has designed a connected thermostat for UK energy supplier British Gas aimed at ordinary consumers rather than technology lovers (+ movie). (more…) [url={url}]View the full article[/url]

World Architecture Festival 2012: the Kallang River Bishan Park in Singapore by landscape designers Atelier Dreiseitl has been given the title Landscape of the Year at the World Architecture Festival (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Australian audio company Nura has launched what it says are the world's first adaptive earphones, which alter their output to suit the user's hearing. Read more