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Scroll on for all the latest from our recruitment site Dezeen Jobs, including positions with us at Dezeen, architects Matteo Thun and design brand Tom Dixon, plus this is the last chance to apply for roles with Heatherwick Studio, David Gill Galleries and more… (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Wire: Will Alsop and Scott Lawrie are to leave architects RMJM and set up a new design studio in London. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Japanese studio Torafu Architects have designed a lidded bowl that can be split into two parts and mounted on the wall as shelves. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos have completed an underground museum in Spain with weathered steel towers and cylinders that emerge above a grass lawn (photographs by Roland Halbe and Fernando Alda). (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

A forest of timber columns and a stone fireplace feign a woodland campsite inside a visitor centre at the Rocky Mountains. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen archive: as we’ve been bombarded by beautiful Australian houses in recent weeks and our story from last week about a cliff-top house inspired by a Picasso painting (top left) continues to be popular with readers, we’ve grouped together all our stories about houses in Australia. See all the stories » See all our archive stories » </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

A veil of metal lace screened by thin concrete piers clads an extension to a baroque theatre and an adjacent commercial block in Germany. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

A pop-up Italian ice cream stall at St Martins Lane Hotel in London evokes the seaside with yellow beach huts and striped decking. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This time last year Dezeen featured a collection of 3D-printed dresses followed by clothing that becomes transparent when approached. The RIBA predicted a gloomy time for UK architects with a double-dip recession on the horizon and the loathed Strata tower was awarded the 2010 Carbuncle Cup for being the ugliest new building in Britain. Daniel Michel marked the phasing out of incandescent light bulbs in Europe by designing a skeletal shade with invisible bulb, Helge Fischer presented a fluffy children’s playsuit that sounds an alarm if the child is touched inappropriately and Japanese artist Takashi Murakami opened an exhibition of his work Château de Versailles…

Cooling pools of water and trees line corridors and rooms inside an Indonesian house by architects Budi Pradono. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Our most popular story this week featured a steel-plated house with a drawbridge-like flap that one reader thought might come in useful in a zombie apocalypse. Other hotly debated stories included a Mumbai office block sandwiched between a corporate complex and a slum and a leaning house with a tree growing inside. Meanwhile we revealed the first image of the kilometre-high Kingdom Tower, which is set to become the world’s tallest building, whilst sales of air-conditioned clothing continued to increase in Japan and cause power shortages. Highlights from Dezeen Screen include interviews with designers and curators at the Blickfang designworkshop in Vienna, an und…

These twin residences in Riga, Latvia, mirror one another exactly, except that one is clad in timber and the other in blackened steel. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Croatian designers Bruketa&Žinić have created a book that can only be identified in the dark. Watch the movie on Dezeen Screen » (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Leather-bound blades displayed against chunky wooden blocks adorn the walls of a Finnish knife shop in Helsinki by designers Suunnittelutoimisto Amerikka. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This jumbled house in India features an elevated steel tunnel, bridged corridors and a rooftop swimming pool on stilts. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Garments hidden behind semi-circular screens in a Hong Kong outlet can be glimpsed through jagged perforations. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Show RCA 2011: Royal College of Art graduate ShiKai Tseng has decorated a range of vases by covering them in photo-sensitive solution then exposing them inside pinhole cameras. Watch the movie on Dezeen Screen » (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

These shoes by Dutch footwear designer Marloes ten Bhömer are pressed from three pieces of leather. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

The first-ever building to have a carbon fibre structure is a mobile studio-cum-stage by Japanese architects Atelier Bow-Wow, which just opened in New York. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Competition: we’ve teamed up with Italian designer Denis Guidone to give away nine of his Rigolo notebooks with slanted and squiggly ruled pages. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

A translucent training centre in northern Italy has earned architects Iotti + Pavarani the Renzo Piano Foundation prize for the best Italian practice under 40. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

New York architects Work AC have won a competition to design a cultural hub on a St Petersburg island that has been closed to the public for over 300 years. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

In this second movie filmed by Dezeen at the Blickfang designworkshop in Vienna last month, young designers Yi-Cong Lu (above), Hanna Emelie Ernsting and Only ET Will Judge Me talk about what they have learned. Watch the movie » </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

An unusual combination of limestone columns and concrete bands surrounds the exterior of a laboratory by UK architects Stanton Williams in the botanic gardens of Cambridge University. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Unfinished plywood and cement smeared over concrete give a renovated Tokyo apartment the appearance of an elegant building site. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article