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A louvred wooden X-shape filled with staircases connects the two laboratory wings of this scientific research centre by architects Lyons at the Australian National University in Canberra (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Architectural designer Amey Kandalgaonkar has created renderings of House Inside a Rock, a concept for a modernist concrete house built within a giant rock. Read more

Charlotte and Clementine Fiell's book, Women in Design, highlights what made figures like Apple icon designer Susan Kare and architect Zaha Hadid revolutionary. The authors pick five women from the book who transformed design. Read more View the full article

EU referendum: architects and designers in the UK should stop complaining about the outcome of the EU referendum and instead start fighting for better post-Brexit policies for their industry, according to a former senior policy adviser to the government. (more…) View the full article

News: Korean architect Seung H-Sang is set to be officially named as Seoul's first city architect this week, in a move to re-establish the city's "architectural identity" after decades of unchecked development (+ interview). (more...) View the full article

Architecture studios BIG, MVRDV, Snøhetta and Architetto Michele De Lucchi have all unveiled proposals for the new San Pellegrino Flagship Factory in northern Italy (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

These new shots by London photographer Rory Gardiner show the tapered form of The Leadenhall Building by Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners, which is nearing completion in the City of London (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Nike has worked alongside a team of athletes to develop a single-layer stretchy hijab that could "change the face of sport for Muslim girls". Read more View the full article

Austrian studio chmara.rosinke created this Japanese-influenced daybed with rotating textile screens as a place to retreat and think, for a design competition run by fashion house Hermès (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

The three-fingered plan of this rural Californian retreat by Mork-Ulnes Architects is oriented to frame views of a mountain ridge, vineyards and a local landmark named Eagle Rock (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

A long white staircase leads straight to the top floor of this small house in Tokyo by Japanese office Apollo Architects & Associates. (more...) View the full article

New York design studio The Very Many, led by Marc Fornes, has designed a blue-and-yellow covering outside a leisure centre in El Paso, Texas. Read more View the full article

Scroll on for all the latest from our recruitment site Dezeen Jobs, including positions with Form Us With Love, Central St Martins College of Art and Design and Tom Dixon, plus this is the last chance to apply for roles with Marcel Wanders, UNStudio, Russell Sage Studio and more… (more…) View the full article

Folding screens of woven steel surround the upper level of the latest building at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie, which provides three storeys of exhibition, workshop and teaching spaces. Read more

Royal College of Art graduate Po-Chih Lai has invented an add-on for a stove-top coffee pot that uses pressurised steam to froth up the milk (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

Eindhoven designer Rene Siebum has added textures to a set of commercial door handles to investigate ways of making them more interesting to touch (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Cameron Clarke has proposed integrating a series of community healthcare facilities into Beijing's hutongs to help alleviate China's mental health crisis. Read more

London architecture studio ShedKM used walls of locally quarried red sandstone to help this concrete house in north-west England fit in with its coastal surroundings (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

A motorway sign symbol of a church was translated directly into the structure of this roadside chapel on the outskirts of Wilnsdorf, Germany, by Frankfurt architects Schneider+Schumacher (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

News: a water-filtration system that uses plants to extract arsenic from water supplies and allows the user to sell the poisonous substance at a profit has been voted the "Idea that will change the world" at the Global Design Forum in London today (+ interview). (more...) View the full article

Our pick of the best architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs this week include positions with Snøhetta in Hong Kong and OMA in Rotterdam. Read 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

Interview: earlier today, London studio Softkill Design unveiled plans for a 3D printed house. We spoke to Softkill's Gilles Retsin about the viability of printed architecture and how he intends to print a plastic dwelling in just three weeks. "When we started this research, it was a kind of science fiction," he says. "It's not actually that far off any more." (more...) View the full article

Danish design company Architectmade has combined elements from two previous Poul Kjaerholm pieces for its sculptural PK-Marble bowl. Read more View the full article

Product news: despite its name, this chair by Dutch designer Reinier de Jong is made from old wooden broom handles. (more...) View the full article