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Norman Foster has declared that the stepped 41-storey office tower his firm has designed for New York's Park Avenue will "set new standards for workplace design", as the building tops out in the city. Read more

Dezeen promotion: designjunction, one of the key exhibitions for the London Design Festival, is moving to three new venues on the South Bank. Read more View the full article

Our US job of the week on Dezeen Jobs is for an architect at Lalire March Architects, which helped transform Barneys' Downtown flagship store in New York (pictured). Visit the ad for full details or browse other architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs. View the full article

People are dunked in a pool of wax to create sculptural dresses by Dutch fashion designer Bart Hess as part of a futuristic city on show at this year's Lisbon Architecture Triennale, which kicked off yesterday in the Portuguese capital. (more...) View the full article

London Design Festival 2015: British designer Max Lamb's installation at Somerset House includes 131 logs sourced from an ailing ash tree at his grandfather's farm (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

London firm Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners has completed NEO Bankside, a set of six-sided apartment blocks beside the Tate Modern art gallery on the edge of the River Thames. (more...) View the full article

The government's House of Commons committee has announced plans for an inquiry that will focus in part on employment within the creative industries post Brexit. (more…) View the full article

This former butchers shop in Barcelona has been converted into a shoe shop furnished with wooden pallets, ropes and tyres (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

A pair of 30-metre spiralling ramps provide access to this multi-functional car park in Amsterdam by Dutch studio Benthem Crouwel Architects. Read more View the full article

Graphic patterns and two-way mirrored glass create optical illusions on these furniture pieces by Royal College of Art graduate Kim Thome. (more…) View the full article

Diners can shop from their table at The Manzoni, a new Milan restaurant by Tom Dixon that doubles as a furniture showroom and the designer's European headquarters. Read more

As a new university year begins, we're waving off our freshers and returning students with Pinterest collections of homely bedrooms and alcoves, space saving interiors and storage ideas that even your parents would approve of. Follow Dezeen on Pinterest › Read more

New York architecture firm ODA has released visuals of a centre for a Jewish community in Brooklyn featuring schools, sports facilities and offices stacked on top of each other. Read more

Fetishistic suits of armour, orthopaedic braces and wearable tusks all feature in an exhibition of prosthetics at the SHOWcabinet space in London (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

To gain views of Canada's Lake Erie from a sheltered plot, architecture firm Kariouk Associates designed this house to include a "love nest" that pokes above the treetops (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Dezeen has won Best Content Studio at the Digiday Publishing Awards in New York, beating The New York Times to the honour. (more…)

This movie documents the manufacture of Zaha Hadid's ridged metallic shoes for United Nude and shows someone walking in them (a bit). (more...) View the full article

A Vancouver-based startup's conceptual design for flat-packed recreational cabins would allow users to build for themselves, making the wilderness more readily accessible. Read more View the full article

In our latest competition, we're offering five readers the chance to win a copy of London's Great Theatres by Simon Callow with photography by Derry Moore. Read more View the full article

There's a reason why Bauhaus architects and designers struggled to forge careers in the UK, says Owen Hatherley in the latest instalment of our Bauhaus 100 series. Read more

The London 2012 Olympics are well underway and every day this week we’ll award medals to design and architecture created for the games, starting with the three most popular stories. The Olympic Torch by BarberOsgerby takes the gold, with over 40,000 pageviews. (more…) View the full article

Comments update: two design heavyweights, Marc Newson and Frank Gehry, dominated the debate on Dezeen this week for very different reasons. (more...) View the full article

In celebration of Canada Day, here's a look at some of the best houses situated in the dramatic landscapes of the vast North American country. Our archive includes cliff-top retreats, mountain cabins and lakeside lodges. See more houses in Canada » View the full article

Valencia studio Masquespacio has created an upholstered chair with a back shaped like an eye and adorned with a tasseled fringe. Read more View the full article

Hidden behind a bookcase in a secret room, a fireman's pole offers a fast escape route from the top floor of this Berlin home by local studio NOWlab (+ slideshow). (more…) [url={url}]View the full article[/url]