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Slideshow feature: this set of images by Dutch architectural photographer Iwan Baan shows the scene in New York over the past week as the city recovers from the effects of Hurricane Sandy that swept across Manhattan last Monday, cutting the electricity and flooding the streets and subways. (more…) View the full article

Scroll on for all the latest from our recruitment site Dezeen Jobs, including positions with industrial designer Benjamin Hubert (pictured above), design brand Moroso and The Royal College of Art, plus this is the last chance to apply for roles with UNStudio, Lee Broom, Theis + Khan and more… (more…) View the full article

Oslo designers Andersson & Voll paired a bright yellow moka pot with a cooking hob sculpted from a slab of marble for an exhibition of Norwegian design at the Design Tide Tokyo trade fair this weekend. (more…) View the full article

Dutch Design Week: this lamp by designer Dennis Parren casts a network of coloured shadows. (more…) View the full article

An ancient Chinese courtyard garden tucked away in the hutongs of Beijing provides the setting for seasonal installations at curated design shop WUHAO. (more…) View the full article

This bone-like tower of concrete by Swiss studio Christ & Gantenbein is one of nine architectural interventions along La Ruta del Peregrino, a 72-mile pilgrimage through the mountain landscape of Jalisco, Mexico (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Interieur 2012: most festival helpers are kitted out with branded T-shirts but staff at the Interieur design biennale in Kortrijk, Belgium, wore geometric uniforms by Norwegian designer Damien Fredriksen Ravn, inspired by the event’s logo. (more…) View the full article

Interieur 2012: data from the ripples of a nearby river animated this mechanical installation by American artist and designer David Bowen, which hung over visitors’ heads at the Interieur design biennale in Kortrijk, Belgium, last week (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

World Architecture Festival 2012: in our final movie from the World Architecture Festival we take another look at the World Building of the Year, Gardens by the Bay, as Wilkinson Eyre Architects’ Paul Baker explains how the design team used vertical planting to create “some real drama in a very flat landscape.” (more…) View the full article

The minimal interior of this collaborative office was converted from a coffee-roasting warehouse by Japanese studio TT Architects (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Following two collaborations with designer Yves Béhar, San Francisco sex toy brand Jimmyjane has launched a travel-friendly vibrator, which comes with a lock to avoid accidental activation inside a suitcase. (more…) View the full article

World Architecture Festival 2012: Vietnamese architect Vo Trong Nghia won two awards at the World Architecture Festival last month and in this second interview he discusses how “green buildings” that use less energy are the future of architecture in Vietnam, like his naturally ventilated Binh Duong School that won the schools category. (more…) View the full article

Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer has created a collection of sneakers and slip-ons for American shoe company Converse, featuring a handwritten poem celebrating the “sensual curve” for which his architecture is famous (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

The big news this week is Apple bringing its hardware and software design teams together under the direction of Jonathan Ive (above), a move our readers think is “long overdue” and they hope will mean the end of “that nasty skeuomorphism fetish” where software interfaces are styled to resemble leather and wood. (more…) View the full article

Dutch Design Week: a Victorian scientist’s laboratory experiments inspired Dutch designer David Derksen to create these glass lamps and vases, which have double walls like a Thermos flask. (more…) View the full article

Mexican firm Fernando Romero EnterprisE (FREE) has won a competition to design a chapel in Miami with plans modelled on the pleated fabric gown of religious figure the Lady of Guadalupe. (more…) View the full article

Interieur 2012: objects that seem like half-finished sketches of candle holders, vases, bowls and bottles won British designer Maya Selway second prize in the Object category of the Interieur Design Awards at the Interieur design biennale in Kortrijk, Belgium, last week (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

This week’s job of the week is a position at The Royal College of Art in London for a part-time tutor in vehicle design. See Dezeen Jobs for more roles in architecture and design. View the full article

World Architecture Festival 2012: architect Kerry Hill won the award in the housing category at the World Architecture Festival with his design for an apartment building in Singapore and in this interview we filmed he discusses how he believes the nation is developing an “emerging approach to design” rather than an architectural style. (more…) View the full article

News: Italian architect and designer Gae Aulenti, best known for the interior design of Paris art gallery the Musée d’Orsay, has died at the age of 84. (more…) View the full article

Hard hats and high visibility jackets are displayed as fashion items at this Singapore boutique that architects Ministry of Design designed for a safety equipment brand (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Interieur 2012: soft leather seats hang between the colourful plastic shelves of this furniture by Belgian design duo Muller Van Severen presented at the Interieur design biennale in Kortrijk, Belgium, last week (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

World Architecture Festival 2012: architect Paul Williams of Stanton Williams tells Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs why his team designed the new campus for London art and design college Central Saint Martins as “a blank canvas” where different disciplines could “take form and ownership”, in this movie we filmed at the World Architecture Festival last month. (more…) View the full article

News: Moscow skyscraper Mercury City topped out today and has overtaken Renzo Piano’s The Shard as the tallest building in Europe. (more…) View the full article

In this movie filmed by Dezeen, Studiomama founder Nina Tolstrup talks about the chair she modified for the Stepney Green Design Collection and how “there are always materials to be found” in east London. (more…) View the full article