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SOM's David Childs has updated the design of a pair of towers proposed to occupy the site of Santiago Calatrava's Chicago Spire. Read more View the full article

Blades taken from retired wind turbines form a sculptural playground in this conceptual Burning Man installation designed by American architecture firm Michael Mannhard Workshop. Read more View the full article

VDF products fair: the Workshop Table for Muuto "has an almost archetypal appearance," according to designer Cecilie Manz. Read more View the full article

Twelve volumes built with rammed earth form this residence in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, designed by Cherem Arquitectos. Read more View the full article

VDF products fair: Undulating legs characterise the solid wood Curtain table by Berlin-based studio Läufer & Keichel for furniture manufacturer Zeitraum. Read more View the full article

In Milan next month British designer Matthew Hilton will launch an upholstered three-legged chair for Portuguese brand De La Espada. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Architect Alex Josephson, co-founder of Toronto studio Partisans, speaks to Dezeen in a live Screentime talk sponsored by Enscape as part of Virtual Design Festival. Watch the broadcast live from 2pm UK time. Read more View the full article

Photographer Nelson Garrido has sent us these photographs of the recently-opened car park in Miami by Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Photographer Matthew Carbone has sent us his photos of Frank Gehry’s latest project, the recently-completed Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health in Las Vegas. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This Manhattan apartment by Yoshihara McKee Architects‘ New York studio overlooks the city and Washington Square Park, and is decorated with copper leaf screens. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen promotion: business stationary brand Vistaprint have introduced a range of customisable business cards inspired by architecture and design. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

London designers Studio Glithero present an installation of 1000 tiles decorated with photosensitive prints at VIVID Gallery in Rotterdam. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Alfonso Architects have designed a church in Tampa, Florida using the Fibonacci sequence to generate the proportions. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen promotion: architecture and design products database Architonic present video interviews with designers including Naoto Fukasawa (above), Ineke Hans and Antonio Citterio, filmed at Orgatec 2010. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Cologne 2011: Italian brand Cassina present a collection of wooden furniture originally designed by architect Le Corbusier in the 1950s at imm cologne in Germany this week. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs interviews Austrian designer Harald Gründl, member of the imm cologne Trendboard, in this movie interview filmed as part of our Dezeentalks at [D3] Design Talents in Cologne earlier this year. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

A pair of shell-like forms contain the two halls of this performing arts centre in Kansas City by Israeli architect Moshe Safdie of Safdie Architects. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Architects Gundry & Ducker created a pub inside a cardboard box inside the crypt of a London church. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

A scooping concrete roof cantilevers over the rear entrance to a house by the Ganges River in northern India. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This week Zaha Hadid opened the new cave-like London showroom she’s designed for bathroom brand Roca and Ai Weiwei was dubbed art’s most powerful figure. This is the last week of Dezeen Space so your last chance to visit is this weekend! If you can’t be there in person, you can still check out our story on Dominic Wilcox’s Moments in Time sculptures here, watch an interview with him here, visit the online Dezeen Watch Store and pick up your copy of the new Dezeen Book of Ideas for just £12 here. You can also see all the exhibitors from our micro-exhibition Dezeen Platform here and watch interviews with them on Dezeen Screen. Meanwhile, MVRDV have opened an exhib…

Following the controversy surrounding the release of the official London 2012 posters last week, graphic designer Sarah Hyndman has come up with a set of alternatives. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Our pop-up Christmas design store The Temporium has opened at 65 Monmouth Street in Seven Dials, Covent Garden in London. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Funhouse mirrors are mounted on the gabled ends of this playground pavilion in Copenhagen, as well as behind the doors. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Scroll on for all the latest from our recruitment site Dezeen Jobs, including positions with us at Dezeen, Marcel Wanders, Nokia and Barber Osgerby, plus this is the last chance to apply for roles with Herzog & de Meuron, Vitsoe and more… (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This week last year designers BarberOsgerby were appointed to design the Torch for the London 2012 Olympic Games, while they later unveiled in June, a fashion designer and an architect showed a collection of 3d-printed clothing and a boulder-shaped mausoleum opened in Acapulco. Japanese architects Apollo completed two houses with pointy overhangs in Sendai, one black and one white, while in Denmark a physical shop opened where customers can buy digital fonts. A Dezeen commenter accused architects Ooze of raping an old house that they had wrapped with a faceted skin, and another thought an orange showroom building with gaping holes in its facade best resembled a chunk …