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This week's job of the week on Dezeen Jobs is a position for a site architect at Heatherwick Studio, whose proposal for a garden to span the River Thames on a new pedestrian bridge is pictured. Visit the ad for full details or browse other architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs. View the full article

Dezeen Watch Store: MMT Calendar, a distinctive pocket watch with a wooden shell, is now available in two finishes at Dezeen Watch Store (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

London designers Studio Swine built a mobile foundry and used it to cast aluminium stools from drinks cans they collected on the streets of São Paulo (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

The clients for this small house in Tokushima, Japan, asked architect Naoko Horibe for a timber interior and an exterior that looks like a sports car. (more...) View the full article

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We've relaunched and updated our World Design Guide to the best architecture and design events to include festivals for 2014, plus read on for details of key fairs and conferences taking place this month. (more...) View the full article

This house in Tel Aviv by Israeli studio Paritzki & Liani Architects has a transparent ground floor, which reveals a terracotta-brick floor that extends out into the garden (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Dutch Design Week 2013: graphic design graduate Evelien Crooy has made her own ink from insects and used it to screen-print the cover of a book about the creatures. (more...) View the full article

The pieces in this chess set by American designer Stefan Gougherty are formed from coloured tubes drilled into see-through acrylic blocks (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

The folded concrete walls of this lakeside visitor centre in China's Anhui Province were designed by architects Archiplein to mimic the uneven surfaces of the surrounding mountains (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Dutch Design Week 2013: Amsterdam designer Pieke Bergmans developed a technique similar to glass blowing to create these plastic lighting installations (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Opinion: in his latest Opinion column, Sam Jacob argues that objects tell us more about ourselves than literature or imagery and sets out his manifesto for "a culture of design informed by archeology and anthropology". (more...) View the full article

Vertical yellow and grey stripes decorate the exterior of this family house in Mexico by León firm tactic-a (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Dezeen Mail issue 176 includes a phone made from modular Lego-like parts and all the latest news, jobs, competitions and reader comments from Dezeen. Read Dezeen Mail issue 176 | Subscribe to Dezeen Mail View the full article

Our second story today featuring products presented like model kits is Italian designer Fabio Novembre's window installation for Tommy Hilfiger at La Rinascente department stores. (more...) View the full article

This furniture collection by designer Silva Lovasová is based on tiny toy products that have been 3D-scanned and enlarged to full scale. (more...) View the full article

Product news: industrial design firm Dyson has unveiled a cordless vacuum cleaner for hard floors that sucks up dirt and wipes the surface at the same time. (more...) View the full article

Product news: Utrecht studio Today Designers has created a book of nautical tales that smells like the sea because it's printed with squid ink. (more...) View the full article

Brains Unlimited is the name of this recently completed trio of buildings, which provides a neuroscience research facility for Maastricht University in the Netherlands (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Product news: a set of spoons each shaped for eating a specific snack form part of Dutch designer Ineke Hans' collection of homeware for kitchen brand Royal VKB. (more...) View the full article

Dezeen promotion: Thai tile brand COTTO has launched its latest range of faux marble and straited tiles first unveiled at the Cersaie ceramics show in Bologna, Italy, in September. (more...) View the full article

These flat-packed schools have been designed for assembly in Southeast Asia by Californian architects Amadeo Bennetta and Dan LaRossa (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

News: New York architect Steven Holl has won a competition to design four museums in Qingdao, China, with a concept for a series of "art islands" linked by a looping route of galleries and pathways (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

Dezeen and MINI World Tour: in our second movie from Eindhoven, Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Dave Hakkens explains his concept for a modular mobile phone made of detachable blocks, an idea that looks set to become a reality now he has teamed up with Motorola. (more...) View the full article

Opinion: journalist and critic Mimi Zeiger argues that trying to rewrite design history with all-female shows like MoMA's Designing Modern Women does nothing to "shake up the dominant masculine ethos" that still plagues the industry. (more...) View the full article