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While OMA is busy finalising designs for a new home for the Garage Centre for Contemporary Culture in Moscow, the arts organisation has temporarily moved into a pavilion with cardboard columns by Japanese architect Shigeru Ban (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

This week’s job of the week is a position at Central Saint Martins School of Art and Design in London as a tutor for the MA Textile Futures course. See Dezeen Jobs for more roles in architecture and design. (more…) View the full article

This office desk by Danish design studio KiBiSi is a cross between an ironing board and a car jack – simply turn the handle on the corner to raise or lower the surface. (more…) View the full article

This university library in Paris by French practice Beckmann-N’Thépé Architectes has a knobbly concrete facade that looks like blocks of earth. (more…) View the full article

World Architecture Festival 2012: Pan Yi Cheng of Singapore studio P.A.C won the award in the retail category at the World Architecture Festival with his design for a shop for furniture brand Herman Miller. In this movie we filmed, the architect explains how a recent emergence of young practices is helping Singapore become a “more vibrant” place that is starting to find its own identity. (more…) View the full article

News: architect David Adjaye has topped a list of Britain’s most influential black people, ahead of Olympic athlete Mo Farah, the shadow business secretary and the Archbishop of York. (more…) View the full article

French designers Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec have designed all the furniture for the remodelled Faculty of Humanities at Københavns Universitet in Copenhagen, which is due to reopen in January. (more…) View the full article

News: WXY Architecture are the third and final studio with plans for the future of New York’s Grand Central Terminal and have suggested a 380-metre skyscraper and a network of elevated cycling paths (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

News: a tool that lets businesses measure and predict the financial outcomes of investing in design is being developed by a research team in Finland, whose project leader says designers should talk numbers rather than aesthetics to appeal to prospective clients. (more…) View the full article

SOM’s proposal for a ring-shaped observation deck hovering over New York’s Grand Central Terminal (above) leads this week’s issue of Dezeen Mail, which also contains all the latest news, jobs, competitions and reader comments from Dezeen. Read Dezeen Mail issue 124 | Subscribe to Dezeen Mail View the full article

Belgian designer Carl de Smet of Noumenon has developed high-tech foam furniture that can be squashed to 5% of its original size for easy transportation and then expanded “like popcorn” by heating it up (+ movie + interview). (more…) View the full article

Competition: Dezeen are giving readers the opportunity to win one of ten Pin World or Pin City wall maps by designers Emanuele Pizzolorusso and Alessandro Maffioletti for Palomar. (more…) View the full article

Hackney studio Levitt Bernstein has won a housing design competition with a proposal to turn disused parking garages into tiny pop-up homes. (more…) View the full article

World Architecture Festival 2012: architects Kristen Whittle and Ron Billard explain how meerkats, fish and open-plan offices for consultants helped provide better care for sick children at the Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne, the winner in the health category at the World Architecture Festival. (more…) View the full article

News: artist and architect Vito Acconci is to receive the Designer of the Year award at Design Miami in December and has designed a playground (above) to be installed in the Miami Design District. See our recent interview with Acconci. (more…) View the full article

Hackney designer Paul Cocksedge has launched an invisible bookend to find out if people will buy an object for its function rather than its appearance. (more…) View the full article

News: Norwegian studio Snøhetta has won a competition to design a waterside opera house in Busan, South Korea. (more…) View the full article

News: work is about to start on a high-density, car-free “satellite city” for 80,000 people that will be built from scratch in a rural location close to Chengdu and later replicated in other parts of China. (more…) View the full article

News: French practice bureau faceB has won a competition to design a bridge across the Seine in Paris with plans for a wobbling crossing of stretched steel cables. (more…) View the full article

Beams of light appear to bend into curved gothic arches above this illusory passageway by London design studio Troika at the Interieur design biennale in Kortrijk, Belgium, this week. (more…) View the full article

Danish architecture firm BIG has scattered miscellaneous street furniture from 60 different nations across a brightly coloured carpet of grass and rubber at this park in Copenhagen (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

News: design fairs need to be better designed to provide a better experience to visitors, according the curator of the Interieur design biennale in Kortrijk, Belgium, which opened this weekend (+ interview). (more…) View the full article

News: the company that makes London’s famous taxis, Manganese Bronze Holdings, is going into administration having failed to make a profit since 2007. (more…) View the full article

Dezeen Watch Store: Grow by Andrea Morgante of Shiro Studio for Alessi is now available at Dezeen Watch Store for only £84.00. Inspired by the act of growing, Morgante designed the surface of the watch to replicate the muscle fibres of the wearer’s arm. (more…) View the full article

News: architect Maurice Shapero has released plans for a cross-shaped skyscraper on the waterfront in Liverpool, England. (more…) View the full article