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Our job of the week on Dezeen Jobs is a position for a senior design engineer at London studio rAndom International, whose Rain Room (pictured) is currently installed as part of the EXPO 1: New York exhibition at the MoMA PS1 in New York and allows visitors to play in the rain without getting wet. See more stories about rAndom International on Dezeen here. Visit the ad for full details or browse other architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs. View the full article

Dezeen and MINI World Tour: in our first movie from the German capital, DMY Berlin founder Joerg Suermann shows us around his favourite neighbourhood of Kreuzberg and tells us why he believes the relaxed atmosphere and low cost of living that attracts many designers to the city can also trap them there. (more...) View the full article

Volcanic rubble is scattered across the curved rooftops of these villas by Japanese architect Kengo Kuma on Jeju Island, South Korea (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

New York designer Joe Doucet created this mirror that makes the viewed look as if they're immersed in water as a tribute to victims of Hurricane Sandy. (more...) View the full article

Opinion: in the first of two columns about the impact of digital culture on design, Sam Jacob asks what America's Prism surveillance program tells us about design thinking. (more...) View the full article

News: Thomas Heatherwick has released images of a proposal for a garden to span the River Thames on a new pedestrian bridge (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Readers' reactions to Apple's iOS 7 software design revealed earlier this week lead Dezeen Mail issue 156, which also includes all the latest news, jobs and comments from Dezeen. Read Dezeen Mail issue 156 | Subscribe to Dezeen Mail View the full article

News: the Royal Institute of British Architects in London has announced 52 winners of this year's RIBA Awards, including a faceted auditorium in Alicante, a shimmering seaside gallery and a museum that mimics volcanic formations. (more...) View the full article

Japanese firm Kengo Kuma and Associates has completed an art and culture centre with a chequered timber facade on the banks of the Doubs river in Besançon, France (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Winners of this year's W Hotels Designers of the Future Award have revealed their projects at Design Miami/Basel (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

News: London is set to offer a rival to New York's acclaimed High Line park with these competition-winning proposals for a landscaped promenade linking gardens and railways arches along the River Thames. (more...) View the full article

News: Ikea has announced that it is to produce miniature versions of some of its most popular products for children to play with. (more...) View the full article

Renzo Piano has become the latest high-profile architect to add a building to the Vitra Campus in Weil am Rhein, Germany, by completing a tiny wooden cabin with room for just a single inhabitant. (more...) View the full article

German designer Philipp Weber's glassblowing pipe with valves like a trumpet won the New Talents Award at DMY Berlin last week (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

The head of this lamp by London designer Klemens Schillinger can rotate freely without the interruption of wires. (more...) View the full article

These billboards by creative agency Ogilvy & Mather stretch outwards to double as street furniture (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

Tokyo practice Klein Dytham Architecture referenced traditional Japanese festivals, bathhouses, fishponds and timber houses for the interior of Google's new Japan office (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Dutch studio MVRDV has transformed the facade of an ageing mixed-use building into a stack of shop windows in Gangnam, the trendy district of Seoul described in the world-famous Korean pop song. (more...) View the full article

News: British-Iraqi firm AMBS Architects has disclosed its designs for the first public library to be built in Iraq since the 1970s. (more...) View the full article

New work by the Campana Brothers including a cabinet made from the skin of the world's largest freshwater fish is on show at gallery Friedman Benda in New York (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

News: Dezeen has now been used in product demonstrations at three consecutive presentations by software giant Apple. (more...) View the full article

News: Zaha Hadid has masterplanned a 276-hectare site beside a lagoon in Izmir for Turkey's bid to host the World Expo 2020. (more...) View the full article

Clerkenwell Design Week 2013: designers including Patricia Urquiola, Ab Rogers and Jay Osgerby talk about their participation in Clerkenwell Design Week in the first of a series of movies we filmed during the event. (more...) View the full article

Ma Yansong of Chinese studio MAD is exhibiting architectural models and sculptures in a Beijing courtyard to illustrate his vision for a future city inspired by nature and shaped by human emotion (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

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