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Scroll on for all the latest from our recruitment site Dezeen Jobs, including positions with interior designer Marcel Wanders (pictured above), Studio Egret West and HawkinsBrown, plus this is the last chance to apply for roles with Universal Design Studio, Russell Sage Studio and more… (more…) View the full article

Travellers visting the Mexican town of Tepoztlan can spend a few nights, months or even years at this three-armed concrete guesthouse by architects Cadaval & Sola-Morales (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

This carbon-fibre and aluminium bicycle with no upright in the diamond-shaped frame weighs just eight kilograms. (more…) View the full article

The locker room at the London School of Economics is now a village of cabinets with house-shaped profiles and bold graphics. (more…) View the full article

This home on a golf course complex in Belas on the outskirts of Lisbon consists of five smaller houses connected by interior passages.(+ slideshow) (more…) View the full article

To prove that germs aren’t all bad, Paris-based studio Bold-design came up with an activity kit that uses bacteria to turn sand from the beach into stone souvenirs (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

In a movie filmed by Alice Masters for the Design Museum’s annual Designers in Residence exhibition, Lawrence Lek explains how he created a modular system of plywood pieces that can be bent into objects including a stool and a pavilion. (more…) View the full article

Interieur 2012: Studio Makkink & Bey built a house of scaffolding and stairs to represent the transient, roaming lifestyle of the future as their contribution to the Future Primitives series at last month’s Interieur design biennale in Kortrijk, Belgium. (more…) View the full article

The peeling, brightly painted walls of an abandoned house provide a striking backdrop to this collection of over-dyed handmade rugs by American designer homeware brand ABC Carpet & Home. (more…) View the full article

This student housing block in Norway by MEK Architects is named MySpace, as the architects imagined the building as a social network where each of the 116 residents can get to know one another (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Designer Dominic Wilcox speaks about his Sounds of Making in East London record that found its way onto a Japanese radio station in this movie we filmed during the Pecha Kucha at our Designed in Hackney Day. (more…) View the full article

Montreal-based designers St Ely have created a sofa made up of three interchangeable modules with sliced-off corners. (more…) View the full article

As areas affected by Hurricane Sandy began the recovery process this week, Iwan Baan’s photos of New York during the ensuing blackout featured in our most popular story. (more…) View the full article

French designer Jérôme Dumetz placed a wheel on each corner of this wooden sideboard to turn it into a miniature truck (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

This week’s job of the week is a position at Marcel Wanders for a graphic/pattern designer. See Dezeen Jobs for more roles in architecture and design. (more…) View the full article

This thatched visitor centre by architects Wingårdhs sits beside the shallow waters of Sweden’s Lake Tåkern, the annual nesting habitat for over a hundred species of bird (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

News: designer and urbanist Dan Hill has been announced as the new managing director of Fabrica, the Benetton Group’s communication research centre in Treviso, Italy. (more…) View the full article

Our second story this week about Japanese architects no.555 features a low-budget house inspired by animals’ nests beside a rice field in Matsumoto (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

German design graduate Meike Harde has designed a range of upholstered benches and stools simply by folding foam mats and fixing them to wooden frames with elastic bands. (more…) View the full article

This police station in eastern Spain by architects Daniel Martí and Natàlia Ferrer has perforated aluminium walls that let arriving visitors take a peek at what’s going on inside (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Swiss studio Mauro Turin Architectes wants to celebrate the history of the Lavaux wine-making region in Switzerland by cantilevering a museum from the side of a mountain (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

In this movie filmed by Dezeen, Bandar Antabi of designer electronics brand Jawbone explains how the company took a holistic approach to designing their Big Jambox wireless speaker. (more…) View the full article

Photographer Iwan Baan’s images of post-Sandy New York (above) lead this week’s issue of Dezeen Mail, which also features all the latest news, jobs, competitions and reader comments from Dezeen. Read Dezeen Mail issue 126 | Subscribe to Dezeen Mail View the full article

Following the sad news that experimental architect and artist Lebbeus Woods passed away last week, here’s a look back at some of his early drawing projects from the 1980s. (more…) View the full article

News: a trawler fishing net that filters out young and endangered fish from the catch has won this year’s James Dyson Award for students working on innovative engineering solutions. (more…) View the full article