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This week we've selected four opportunities on Dezeen Jobs for architectural assistants in London, including roles at British architecture firms Hopkins Architects and Studio Seilern Architects. Read more View the full article

Carl Fredrik Svenstedt Architect has designed a curving facade carved out of sandstone by a robot for the Delas Frères Winery in France's Rhône Valley. Read more View the full article

Daily coronavirus briefing: today's architecture and design coronavirus briefing includes magazine covers and movie posters that reflect the pandemic, as well as face shields by Nike, Adidas and Apple. Read more View the full article

The Hanwha headquarters office tower in Seoul has been remodelled by Dutch architecture firm UNStudio, retrofitting its facade to hold solar panels. Read more View the full article

Filipino graphic designer Julius Raymund Advincula sat half-naked in front of a mirror looking for letters and numbers in the folds of his skin and limbs to make up this Body Type typeface. Read more View the full article

Reflected greenery shrouds the mirrored extension that architecture practice Delavegacanolasso added to house in Madrid, which occupies a disused art studio. Read more View the full article

Yuri Suzuki will join Dezeen for a live Screentime interview as part of Virtual Design Festival. Watch from 4:00pm UK time. Read more View the full article

Milan 2010: Paris designer Constance Guisset presented a combined bird cage and fish tank at Spazio Rosana Orlandi in Milan last week. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

New York studio Volido have completed the interiors for a fashion store in New York that’s intended to look like a fashion runway. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Rotterdam architects OMA have announced their proposed masterplan for a new cultural district in Hong Kong. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

London Design Festival 2010: London interior designers and stylists Studio Toogood launch their inaugural furniture and lighting lighting collection made from a mixture of stone, wood and brass inside a west London garage this week. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Photographer Nelson Garrido has sent us some images of a house designed by AGi Architects located next to a beach in Bnaider, Kuwait. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Screen: this movie, filmed at Ventura Lambrate in Milan, features Italian designer Denis Guidone explaining to Dezeen the design concepts and mechanisms behind the watches Ora Lattea, Ora Unica and Tempo Libero. Watch the movie » </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Rotating walls with acid green edges slot together like jigsaw pieces between a London lighting showroom and its window display. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Spanish designers Normal have completed a Barcelona cocktail bar with tables made of drawers, a bar made of doors and a door made of cupboards. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Wire: in her latest article for The New York Times, design critic Alice Rawsthorn analyses the career of influential graphic designer and filmmaker Saul Bass. Rawsthorn explains that the designer’s bold style “reflected his fascination with constructivism, modernism and surrealism,” adding that his work with some of the most important directors in history ”transformed what were once cursory lists of the cast and crew into thrilling complements to the movies.” See more articles by Alice Rawsthorn here. </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Screen: this timelapse movie shows how a group of Oporto University architecture graduates, who call themselves Dose, constructed a spiky temporary bar for a student festival using blue plastic tubes and cable ties. Watch the movie » </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Screen: in this movie we filmed at Berlin design fair Qubique 2011, Mangus Wästberg of Swedish lighting company Wästberg presents lamps designed by Studioilse, James Irvine and David Chipperfield. Watch the movie » </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

It may look like a giant bird’s nest but this stick-covered dome is actually a horse-riding arena in the Czech Republic. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

. This week’s highlights include starchitects excavating a London park, a movie involving Dita Von Teese and a stiletto and a chocolate penis… read on for full details of the week on Dezeen. (more…) View the full article

Hackney designers PearsonLloyd preview their workstations for office furniture brand Bene at Hackney House in Shoreditch tonight, with music by Dezeen Music Project. (more…) View the full article

This time last year designers were going to extreme lengths to devise and manufacture their projects, as an architecture graduate proposed hanging a skyscraper upside-down over a river (above) and another designer created stools using explosions (below). (more…) View the full article

Dezeen Watch Store: the third watch added to our new summer collection at Dezeen Watch Store is the VOID V03 designed by David Ericsson of Hong Kong watch brand VOID. (more…) View the full article

In this movie filmed by Dezeen, designer Erwan Bouroullec talks to Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs about the textured Pico tiles that he and his brother Ronan exhibited during Clerkenwell Design Week. (more…) View the full article

The Interieur Foundation’s Designer of the Year Alain Gilles will launch a bed that lets users hide chairs, a desk or even a bath behind its adaptable headboard at design fair Interieur 2012, which opens tomorrow in Kortrijk, Belgium. (more…) View the full article