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News: architects and critics have called for the earthquake-damaged Christchurch Cathedral in New Zealand to be restored to its original gothic appearance after rejecting two contemporary proposals as "bizarre" and "architecturally illiterate". (more...) View the full article

Spanish architect Alberto Villanueva's Mars Utopia concept would see the planet transformed into an inhabitable environment using towers formed by bacteria (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Following claims that Thomas Heatherwick's Olympic cauldron design isn't original, we've compiled our top stories about copying in design. (more...) View the full article

Five years ago Zaha Hadid’s installation at the Venice Biennale (above) featured sculptural, shiny forms, which cropped up in a lot of designers’ work around the same time. (more…) View the full article

See the latest from our recruitment site Dezeen Jobs, including positions with Tom Dixon, Lee Broom and Erick van Egeraat, whose mixed-use block in Hamburg with a facade that parts like a pair of curtains is pictured. This is also the last chance to apply for roles with The Manser Practice, Serie Architects, Adjaye Associates and more... (more...) View the full article

New photos capture the latest progress on the headquarters that BIG and Heatherwick Studio have designed for Google in California's Mountain View. Read more

Scroll on for all the latest from our recruitment site Dezeen Jobs, including positions with Balmond Studio, Rick Mather Architects and the Carpenters Workshop Gallery, plus this is the last chance to apply for roles with UXUS, Lane Crawford and more… (more…) View the full article

Alain Carle Architecte has completed a black home in Quebec, with a split-level organisation that creates "interior landscapes" for its owners to inhabit. Read more

Belgian studio AWG Architecten added pivoting golden cabinets and a golden platform to adapt an old church into a cultural centre in the Dutch village of Leegkerk (+slideshow). (more...) View the full article

News: robotic tractors will create patterns across a field of crops on the roof of this pavilion that Italian architect Carlo Ratti has designed for the World Expo 2015 in Milan. (more...) View the full article

Cacti, gravel, concrete floors and a wooden bridge feature in this Brussels fashion boutique by JDS Architects (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Competition: Dezeen has teamed up with Domaine de Boisbuchet in south-west France to offer the chance to win a place on an architecture and design workshop this summer (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Architects and designers in Japan have defended unpaid internships in the country, saying it is a cultural tradition with deep roots. Read more

In memory of musician Prince, who died suddenly last week, LACMA has used purple lighting to turn the popular Rain Room installation into a tribute based on one of the musician's most famous tracks. (more…) View the full article

Dezeen promotion: there are just two weeks left to enter Samsung and Dezeen's competition to create new accessory and wallpaper designs for Galaxy mobile devices. Read more

News: Finnish furniture brand Artek has acquired the production facilities that were used by its co-founder Modernist architect Alvar Aalto to develop his signature bent wood furniture. (more...) View the full article

Giant panes of glass form the walls of this triangle-shaped maze at The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City by artist Robert Morris. (more...) View the full article

This hanging acoustic panel system by Swedish design student Johanna Jacobson Backman has LEDs set into the underside to provide lighting for desks positioned below. (more…) View the full article

Cork Screw House, designed by Rundzwei Architekten in Berlin, has a facade and roof made from a bottle manufacturer's waste cork. Read more

Scroll on for all the latest from our recruitment site Dezeen Jobs, including positions with architects Gort Scott, Allford Hall Monaghan Morris and March & White, plus this is the last chance to apply for roles with Benjamin Hubert Studio, Da Rosee Sa Architects, Royal College of Art and more…(more…) View the full article

Recycled shopping bags and clothing labels adorn the walls at budget fashion retailer Primark's international headquarters in Dublin by British studio MoreySmith (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

News: Danish studio BIG has been appointed to lead a team of architects and engineers to redesign the campus of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC. (more...) View the full article

With Rem Koolhaas curating the Venice Biennale and Zaha Hadid, Frank Gehry and Moshe Safdie pulling no punches, 2014 was a busy year for opinionated architects. Dezeen's editor Anna Winston chooses her architecture quotes of the year. (more…) View the full article

News: NASA's Space Mission Analysis Branch has unveiled a research project to send astronauts to Venus, envisioning "lighter-than-air" pods that could hover above the clouds to house explorers. (more…) View the full article

Designer Martino Gamper has created a fake front for a "disco" at Coal Drops Yard in London's King's Cross that can house just a few revellers at a time. Read more