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Raw concrete and colourful fabrics are combined in this fashion store in Dubai by London designers Studio Toogood (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

This Kevlar rucksack with a built-in protective hood by Israeli designer Hila Raam is perfect for anyone who wants to go backpacking in a war zone. (more...) View the full article

A contemporary house inserted behind the crumbling walls of a ruined twelfth-century castle in Warwickshire, England, by Witherford Watson Mann is one of the six projects nominated for the 2013 Stirling Prize (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

News: a book of photographs showing domestic life in Tehran was temporarily blacklisted by online payments company PayPal for having the word "Iranian" in the title (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

UK designer Thomas Heatherwick has released images of a technology education building under construction at Nanyang Technology University in Singapore. (more...) View the full article

News: London architects Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners (RSHP) have been appointed to design a new terminal at Lyon-Saint Exupéry Airport at Lyon in France. (more...) View the full article

This week on Dezeen unpaid internships were back in the spotlight, as D&AD chairman Dick Powell made a speech advising young people to "work for nothing" in order to get a job in the creative industries, then later moved to defuse the controversy with a follow-up statement. Read on for more news plus Dezeen Music Project track of the week. (more...) View the full article

Zaha Hadid has revealed images of her addition to the Messner Mountain Museum, a string of buildings dotted through the Dolomites of northern Italy. (more...) View the full article

News: architecture firm OMA has been selected to design a major mixed-use public building featuring angled blocks stacked like dominoes for downtown Santa Monica, California (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Our job of the week on Dezeen Jobs is for a Russian-speaking architect to join the Rotterdam office of Dutch firm OMA, whose current projects include the expansion of Moscow and the new Garage Centre for Contemporary Culture (pictured). Visit the ad for full details or browse other architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs. View the full article

News: Dutch office UNStudio has won a competition to design a world trade centre in the growing city of Wenzhou, China, with proposals for a family of segmented skyscrapers. (more...) View the full article

Zaha Hadid's soon-to-complete university building in Hong Kong and a debate surrounding unpaid internships feature in Dezeen Mail issue 161, along with all the latest news, jobs, competitions and reader comments from Dezeen. Read Dezeen Mail issue 160 | Subscribe to Dezeen Mail View the full article

News: a camera that allows users to focus photographs after they've been taken has launched in the UK. (more...) View the full article

This streamlined sculpture by designer Gerry Judah features three Porsche 911s soaring up into the sky like rockets. (more...) View the full article

Dezeen promotion: an exhibition dedicated to the work of British architect Richard Rogers opens at London's Royal Academy of Arts today. (more...) View the full article

News: D&AD chairman Dick Powell has moved to defuse the controversy over a speech advising young people to "work for nothing" in order to get a job in the creative industries. In a letter to Dezeen, Powell states that "there are no circumstances where working unpaid in any capacity is acceptable on any level" and adds: "I apologise to your readers who may wrongly have a different impression". (more...) View the full article

News: six buildings have been shortlisted for this year's Stirling Prize, including the overhaul of Sheffield's notorious Park Hill housing estate (above), an elliptical chapel and a museum that mimics volcanic formations. (more...) View the full article

News: Dutch firm OMA has seen off competition from Danish studio BIG to land the high-profile commission to renovate Miami Beach Convention Center, home to the annual Art Basel/Miami and Design Miami trade fairs. (more...) View the full article

The towering fortress of fairytale character Rapunzel inspired this steel-clad house extension that accommodates the three oldest daughters of Austrian architect Stefan Marte (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

An integrated pulley system allows items to be hoisted up and down around this workstation by Italian design graduate Micaela Nardella (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

We take a tour through the staircases, gyms and study areas of Steven Holl's Campbell Sports Centre at Columbia University in the second of two movies by architectural filmmakers Spirit of Space. (more...) View the full article

This guest house by Russian architect Peter Kostelov has a patchwork timber facade with perforated panels that look like paper doilies (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

These inflatable chairs by Chinese designers Ray Jiao and Yi Wang integrate vacuum compression systems that mould the seats to the shape of each sitter (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

The Andaz Hotel in Amsterdam by Dutch designer Marcel Wanders features chandeliers encased inside huge bells and wallpaper that combines fish with cutlery (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

News: on the eve of a major exhibition about his life, architect Richard Rogers has spoken of how architecture's civic responsibility has been eroded in "an age of greed". (more...) View the full article