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At the launch of his giant De Rotterdam building last week, architect Rem Koolhaas discussed his home city and his latest contribution to it. "This building is not the same from any angle," he said. "We consider that not so much an innovation but a new ambition in architecture" (+ transcript). (more...) View the full article

Dezeen Watch Store: we're setting up a Christmas pop-up watch store in our north London showroom on two weekends next month. (more...) View the full article

News: robotic tractors will create patterns across a field of crops on the roof of this pavilion that Italian architect Carlo Ratti has designed for the World Expo 2015 in Milan. (more...) View the full article

Undulating branches emerge from the centre of a dining table at this Swiss natural foods restaurant by Ippolito Fleitz Group (+ slideshow + photographs by Zooey Braun). (more...) View the full article

Folded steel staircases lead to elevated rooms atop freestanding metal towers inside this old industrial building in Brussels that adn Architectures has converted into an open-plan apartment (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

This rusty metal tower was designed by Austrian studio Marte.Marte Architects to help tourists locate excavated Roman ruins on the outskirts of a town in western Austria (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Artists Studio Job customised a Land Rover Defender by adding a golden horn, a tongue and a stained glass window in celebration of the iconic vehicle's sixty-fifth birthday. (more...) View the full article

A nomadic city moves from place to place like an enormous tank in this conceptual proposal by architecture graduate Manuel Domínguez. (more...) View the full article

Opinion: as MoMA launches an online exhibition investigating design's relationship with violence, Dezeen columnist Justin McGuirk looks beyond objects like 3D-printed guns and drones to ask "what do our weapons say about the systems they support?" (more...) View the full article

This 25-metre wooden lookout in the Czech Republic by Mjölk Architekti is named Cucumber Tower in an attempt to discourage association with phallic forms (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Scroll on for all the latest from our recruitment site Dezeen Jobs, including positions with Martha Schwartz Partners, the University of Melbourne and UNStudio, which unveiled designs for a 60-metre tower in Munich last week (pictured). Plus this is the last chance to apply for roles with Heatherwick Studio, Studio Fuksas, OMA and more... (more...) View the full article

Movie: in our next exclusive interview from Inside Festival, Aman Aggarwal explains how his studio Charged Voids combined traditional designs with modern construction techniques to create the interior of Tashya, a high-end Indian bridal store in Chandigarh. (more...) View the full article

French studio Perraudin Architecture has constructed a family house out of solid stone, claiming the material is "cheaper and faster" to build with than concrete. (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

Dezeen Watch Store: Titan, the first digital pocket watch from Ziiiro, is now in stock in five distinctive colours. (more...) View the full article

Two initials are merged so each be read from different angles in this 3D-printed metal jewellery (+slideshow). (more...) View the full article

American artist Phillip K Smith III has added mirrors to the walls of a desert shack in California to create the illusion that you can see right through the building (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

These wooden storage boxes by Japanese designers Torafu Architects stack up to make little trolleys (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Movie: Julia Borghesi of design studio Hassell discusses the hybrid aesthetic of advertising agency Clemenger BBDO's office in Sydney, which topped the office category at last month's Inside Festival. (more...) View the full article

Extravagant outfits and hats from the wardrobe of the late stylist and fashion muse Isabella Blow have gone on display in London (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Dezeen Watch Store: the 351 Series is the newest collection from London-based watch brand Uniform Wares. (more...) View the full article

Japanese designer Yasutoshi Mifune has created a clothes stand with Y-shaped coat hangers that slot into the base when not in use. (more...) View the full article

Just when we thought things couldn't get much weirder than last week, we featured human cheese, humans giving birth to dolphins and bees that can sniff out cancer this week. Read on for more architecture and design news from the past seven days, plus our Dezeen Music Project track of the week. (more...) View the full article

Movie: in this exclusive interview, Rem Koolhaas tells Dezeen why the colossal new De Rotterdam tower is the most visible OMA skyscraper yet. "Nobody will be able to avoid" seeing it, he says. (more...) View the full article

News: condoms made by combining latex with new wonder material graphene would be "thinner, stronger, safer and more pleasurable," according to scientists developing uses for the ultra-thin material. (more...) View the full article