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This week's job of the week on Dezeen Jobs is for a senior design manager at Selfridges, whose flagship store on London's Oxford Street is pictured. Visit the ad for full details or browse other architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs. View the full article

Detroit studio Rootoftwo has installed weather vanes shaped like headless chickens on five buildings in Folkestone, England, which spin around and change colour in response to fear levels on the internet rather than the climate (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

This series of hand drawings by Bartlett School of Architecture graduate Ned Scott presents a science-fiction world in which London grows a jungle of crops for fuel and food next to Buckingham Palace. (more…) View the full article

Dezeen's design editor Dan Howarth picks 10 of his favourite gadgets from this year, including a robotic fish tank and a vaginal activity monitor. (more…) View the full article

Architecture studio Gort Scott has unveiled plans to replace an out-of-use office block in London's Walthamstow with 45 "pocket" apartments. Read more View the full article

New York 2016: Canadian design studio Lambert & Fils has balanced pairs of glass globes within folded metal frames for its Laurent lighting collection, designed as a reinterpretation of classic pendant lighting (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Canadian designer Alexandra Hutchison has opened an eatery with her husband in Toronto, creating interiors influenced by a trip to coastal California. Read more

Interieur 2012: American architect and designer Greg Lynn has created a prototype for a motorised compact-living cocoon that rotates to provide space for relaxing, sleeping and bathing (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

Artist and activist Ai Weiwei took to Instagram to show Chinese authorities knocking down his studio in Beijing, with many of his artworks still inside. Read more View the full article

Maine architect Carol A Wilson has built a two-bedroom home in Batson River on the foundations of a ranch that previously occupied the site, to prevent disturbing nearby trees (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

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

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

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

Chevron motifs taken from military uniforms are interspersed around this cafe at London's Royal Arsenal Riverside by Paul Crofts Studio (+ 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

Our Pinterest board showcases the best-designed bakeries and patisseries, including one with "monolithic" cast in-situ concrete walls and a bike-powered bakery that relies on human exertion in New England. Follow Dezeen on Pinterest ›

An extruded T-shaped roof that is also a walkway covers a glazed box in this dramatic house designed by Fran Silvestre Arquitectos in Valencia, Spain. Read more

MIA Design Studio has completed another project at the Naman Retreat in Vietnam: a series of holiday villas featuring rooftop pools that surround sunken lounges (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

A series of light-filled living spaces feature inside this Barcelona apartment, which Raúl Sanchez Architects has stripped back to highlight the building's sloped facade. Read more

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

This shed-inspired house in rural Victoria, Australia, features a low-maintenance fire-resistant facade of corrugated steel that also helps to reflect heat, keeping the building cool in summer (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Dezeen promotion: German plastics manufacturer Rehau has teamed up with Ippolito Fleitz Group to imagine what an apartment of the future will look like. Read more

This small house in the French city of Tours by local architecture office Atelier 100architecture features a material palette of zinc panels, plaster and wooden boards that references its historical neighbours. (more...) View the full article

Charred larch slats now cover the exterior of this Modernist house in north London, thanks to a "macabre" upgrade intended by architecture studio Denizen Works to reference the nearby Highgate Cemetery (+ slideshow) (more…) View the full article

One of this week's most popular stories was a house in Spain featuring a cantilevered rooftop swimming pool, so we've collected together all the Spanish houses that have appeared on Dezeen in a new Pinterest board. See our Pinterest board of Spanish houses » Follow Dezeen on Pinterest » View the full article