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WeWork's parent The We Company has announced Mexican architect Michel Rojkind of Rojkind Arquitectos as its new senior vice president of architecture. Read more

This week five years ago our readers were all talking about goldfish, as designer Roger Arquer presented a series of unusual bowls including one with a plug (above) and another that makes a fish share water with a plant (below). (more…) View the full article

An asymmetric tunnel leads through an all-black facade to a bright and spacious interior at this house in Chiba Prefecture, Japan (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Drones, lightweight furniture, national costumes and astronaut training centres feature in this year's Designers in Residence exhibition at London's Design Museum (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Dezeen promotion: Chinese architects Lu Wenyu and Wang Shu, who was awarded the 2012 Pritzker Prize, will deliver the Royal Academy's prestigious Annual Architecture Lecture this year. (more…) View the full article

Hospitality company Bridgeton and Studio Tack have collaborated to renovate the Marram hotel in Montauk, New York, influenced by the colours and textures of the sand that covers the neighbouring landscape. Read more

White latticed screens and trailing planting shade the glazed facade of this Vietnam day spa, by MIA Design Studio, from the midday sun (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Barcelona studio NOEM has designed a home for a film director and science-fiction fan that resembles a spaceship raised above its forested site in a suburb of Madrid (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Dutch designer Lex Pott has created a collection of cylindrical vases from oxidised metals for his first collaboration with Danish design brand &tradition. (more…) View the full article

Dezeen editor Anna Winston picks the quotes that sum up the year in architecture, covering the changing status of refugee camps, the relationship between New York's skinny skyscrapers and inequality, and the blurring lines between designers and architects. (more…) View the full article

Renaissance artist El Greco lived and worked in the Spanish city of Toledo and Pardo + Tapia Arquitectos has refurbished and added a glazed entrance pavilion to the small museum that houses some of his most important paintings (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Stockholm 2015: Beckman's College of Design student Matilda Beckman has used dust from the floors of vintage clothes shops to form a collection of furniture. (more…) View the full article

Scroll on for all the latest from our recruitment site Dezeen Jobs, including positions with architects Foster + Partners, tree house makers Blue Forest and interior designers David Collins Studio, plus this is the last chance to apply for roles with United Designers, Established & Sons, Tom Dixon and more… (more…) View the full article

Indian architecture firm Studio Mumbai will exhibit 14 furniture and homeware items crafted from a mix of "universal" and more unusual materials, at Maniera gallery in Brussels. Read more

London Design Festival: hundreds of intricate models by emerging Japanese architect Akihisa Hirata are pinned onto the looping walls of this installation at the Architecture Foundation in London (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

News: a range of drinking glasses, jugs and vases incorporating dye that generates electricity from sunlight by Marjan van Aubel has won the DOEN Materiaalprijs at Dutch Design Week (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

In this series of movies, Pritzker Prize 2017 laureates Rafael Aranda, Carme Pigem and Ramon Vilalta describe how nature, landscape and "atmospheres" influence their approach to architecture. Read more View the full article

Japanese studio UID Architects often place gardens inside buildings and this house in Fukuyama is no exception (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Ini Archibong presented the second instalment of his Beyond the Heavens furniture for Sé during Milan design week. In this interview, the designer says his aim is make objects that help you "escape your mundane reality". Read more

The green-tiled facade of this Lisbon townhouse by Camarim Arquitectos has varying textures and opacities designed to reference the building that previously stood on the site (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Spiralling stone walls will be carved with images of extinct species - with space reserved for future extinctions - at this observatory and education centre designed by Adjaye Associates for the Isle of Portland, England. (more...) View the full article

Mexican design studio Esrawe has created a set of experimental lights by pouring molten glass over bulging wooden shapes. Read more View the full article

Warsaw studio Moko Architects has unveiled plans to build a diving and indoor skydiving centre outside Warsaw by surrounding a pair of abandoned cement silos with a tower of shipping containers. (more...) View the full article

News: robots could soon be operating on beating human hearts while a surgeon based in a different part of the world directs the procedure remotely, according to a designer working on a new generation of medical equipment. (more...) View the full article

A staple in cafes around the world, Thonet's steam-bent No 14 chair is T in the alphabetical list of iconic seats we're publishing each day until Christmas. (more…) View the full article