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News: "In the spirit of Steve Jobs, when I identify that I am no longer 'with it' I'll retire," says Norman Foster as his firm is named Britain's biggest practice. (more...) View the full article

Built on a steep site in Spain, the seventeenth house in our A-Zdvent calendar consists of three intersecting volumes arranged around a central circulation space. Read more about Q-House » View the full article

Our job of the week on the new and improved Dezeen Jobs is for a head of design at London's V&A Museum, which exhibited British architect Sam Jacob's replica refugee shelter at the Venice Biennale (pictured). Visit the ad for full details of the position or browse more architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs. View the full article

Scroll on for all the latest from our recruitment site Dezeen Jobs, including positions with Heatherwick Studio, Foster + Partners (who recently completed The Bow skyscraper in Calgary, Canada, pictured) and Tom Dixon, plus this is the last chance to apply for roles with OMA, Ross Lovegrove and more... (more...) View the full article

Chinese studio Neri&Hu has added bamboo-lined booths and green glass lampshades to a Shanghai bar that specialises in one drink – punch (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

German designer Samuel Treindl has made a clock, lamp and other products from shapes cut out of existing furniture (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Cologne 2014: Eindhoven designer Tsuyoshi Hayashi has used discarded roof tiles to create curving seats for a series of stools and benches (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Spanish studio H Arquitectes has renovated and extended a tired mid-century school building in Catalonia, adding a new facade of concrete blocks and slatted screens (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Royal College of Art student Axel Bluhme has developed an interactive drum machine that uses an analogue interface of spinning discs and magnets to combine digital sounds (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

Exactly 30 years of footage of a paper pulp press in action is being projected onto a concrete screen inside this pavilion, created by A2 Architects and artist John Gerrard on the site of a former paper mill (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

A burnout culture of "sleep is for the weak" must be stopped in design education for the sake of students' mental health say #DezeenChat participants. Read more

Danish studio BIG has designed an observation tower shaped like a honey dipper for Phoenix, Arizona. (more...) View the full article

A towering steel Holocaust memorial in Italy was popular this week, so we've revisited the best commemorative architecture published on Dezeen. Visit our latest Pinterest board to explore more examples, including a concentration camp house shrouded in glass, a fan-shaped stone structure in Japan and a tribute to suspected witches burnt at the stake in 17th-century Norway. Follow Dezeen on Pinterest | See more memorials in our archive View the full article

Pininfarina and AECOM have beaten proposals from Zaha Hadid and Moshe Safdie in a contest seeking a design for an air-traffic control tower at Istanbul's new airport. (more…) View the full article

Greenery-filled courtyards and waffle ceilings bring light to the interiors of this concrete restaurant, which Vector Architects has erected near the shore of Beidaihe, China. Read more

Dezeen Jobs now has over 30,000 registered jobseekers around the world! Read more

Construction has started on a human-body-inspired headquarters for Chinese fashion group Xinhee, designed by architecture studio MAD (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Dezeen founder and editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs has been named the first-ever international ambassador for Dutch Design Week, alongside homegrown figures Winy Mass of architecture firm MVRDV, and design studio Atelier NL. Read more View the full article

American industrial designer Tucker Viemeister has created a graphic that shows the US flag with portions blocked out, to critique the redacted release of the investigation into president Donald Trump's collusion with Russia. Read more

Calls for Denise Scott Brown to be recognised by Pritzker and a library with a robotic book-retrieval system (above) and wearable technology head-up 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 146 | Subscribe to Dezeen Mail View the full article

News: the "death-ray" effect created by sunlight reflected off the glazed facade of Rafael Viñoly's Walkie Talkie skyscraper in London were predicted over a year ago by a professional CGI artist, it emerged today as developers rush to install protective screens. (more...) View the full article

For the exhibition design of Keith Haring's first major show in the UK, design practice InterestingProjects has taken heed from the distinct material and countercultural context of 1980s New York City. Read more View the full article

This low-cost concrete block house outside Monterrey was designed and built by its owners, with support from a non-profit social housing project led by local architecture office S-AR (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

This image was created for Dezeen by London-based illustrator James Burgess to celebrate our 250,000th follower on Twitter. If you don't already, follow us here for all the latest headlines, projects and reader comments from Dezeen. View the full article

A micro vineyard, a rooftop garden and an abundance of artwork are among the features in an island retreat that New York architect Vibeke Lichten has created for her family. Read more