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Today is the tenth letter in our A-Zdvent calendar and features John Pawson. His British firm remodelled this old church in Augsburg, Germany earlier this year (pictured) and yesterday announced he'll be the latest designer of a holiday home for Alain de Botton's Living Architecture project. See more architecture by John Pawson Architects » View the full article

This concrete house in Tokyo was designed by Japanese firm Apollo Architects & Associates for a family that regularly accommodates foreign exchange students (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

News: a tower under construction in Miami by Porsche Design and Dezer Development is to feature car elevators, allowing some of the world's wealthiest people to park right next to their living rooms (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

News: John Pawson has become the latest designer of a holiday home for Alain de Botton's Living Architecture project with his proposal for a black brick lodge in the Welsh countryside (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Scroll on for all the latest from our recruitment site Dezeen Jobs, including positions with Moooi, David Collins Studio and Fredrikson Stallard, the London designers whose crystal lamp resembling the human eye is pictured. This is also the last chance to apply for roles with Foster + Partners, The University of Hong Kong, Christopher Jenner and more... (more...) View the full article

News: president of the Rhode Island School of Design John Maeda has announced he will leave the school to join a Silicon Valley venture capital firm and chair eBay's new Design Advisory Board. (more...) View the full article

This combined dental clinic and beauty salon in Takashima, Japan, by Osaka designer Ryutaro Matsuura features a plain white facade that conceals windows and patios behind perforated metal screens (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

A quick traffic report: we're proud to say Dezeen has had over 100 million pageviews this year. Thanks to all our readers! View the full article

These wearable devices by designer Ling Tan cause unpleasant sensations when the wearer becomes inactive or stops concentrating (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

This small house in Japan by architect Hiroyuki Shinozaki features volcanic stone walls and a ribbed structure that forms the shape of a dome over the central living space (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

New York-based Israeli designer Ron Gilad has added a modular shelving system and an oval table to his TT furniture collection, which features surfaces that appear to hover unsupported within a metal frame. (more...) View the full article

Letter I stands for Japanese architect Arata Isozaki in the ninth window from our A-Zdvent calendar of architects. Isozaki's most famous projects include the Museum of Modern Art in Gunma, but he more recently completed an inflatable mobile concert hall in collaboration with artist Anish Kapoor and the Qatar National Convention Centre, where tree-like columns support an overhanging roof (pictured). See more architecture by Arata Isozaki » View the full article

Curved walls made from sun-bleached timber slats screen the exterior of this sports centre by Explorations Architecture in the French commune of Arpajon, near Paris (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Dublin designers Notion have established their own design brand called NTN with an inaugural collection featuring wooden sunglasses, an aluminium watch and a table with a hammock underneath (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

London designer Emilie Voirin has created a minimal nativity set where characters in the Christmas story are represented by wooden blocks with their names printed in plain black capital letters. (more...) View the full article

Dezeen and MINI World Tour: next in our series of movies from Eindhoven, Dutch designer Piet Hein Eek discusses his fascination with waste materials and explains how we set up his huge studio complex in the city to manufacture his own products. (more...) View the full article

A rare prefabricated one-room house designed by Jean Prouvé in 1945 is on sale at Design Miami for $2.5 million (+ movie + interview). (more...) View the full article

We've recently featured a house with a fritted glass facade and an energy efficient house in a glazed box located in the Netherlands. From the iconic Piet Blom cube houses to the traditional Dutch townhouse, here is a selection of Dutch homes from the pages of Dezeen. See our new Dutch houses Pinterest board » Follow Dezeen on Pinterest » View the full article

Following a preview of the nearly completed Pérez Art Museum in Miami this week, our eighth A-Zdvent calendar window features Swiss architecture duo Herzog & de Meuron. Here's a picture of their Vitrahaus showroom shaped like a pile of houses. See more architecture by Herzog & de Meuron » » View the full article

Decorative tiles salvaged from different apartments are rearranged in stripes across the floor of this Barcelona residence by Spanish studio Bach Arquitectes (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Dezeen and MINI World Tour: in our first movie from Miami, Jacques Herzog of Herzog & de Meuron claims the Swiss architecture studio is trying to create a "new vernacular for Miami" that eschews sealed, air-conditioned buildings in favour of more "transparent or permeable" structures. (more...) View the full article

Design Miami 2013: designer Simon Heijdens has created a series of hand-blown glass vessels that turn data from wind movement into projected patterns of light (+ slideshow + interview). (more...) View the full article

Dutch studio NL Architects used turquoise-coloured bricks to build this apartment block in Rotterdam, which staggers at the top to make room for sunny balconies on one side (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

G is for Frank Gehry in our seventh A-Zdvent calendar window. The American architect's Guggenheim Museum in the Spanish city of Bilbao (pictured) famously sparked a trend for cities commissioning iconic buildings as catalysts for regeneration, while other high-profile projects include his Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles and the upcoming new headquarters for Facebook. See more architecture by Frank Gehry » View the full article

We've been soaking up the sun at Design Miami this week, where a previously unbuilt house by Charlotte Perriand (pictured) and 3D-printed wearable sculptures are among the projects on display. Read on for more of the week's top architecture and design news. (more...) View the full article