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A pair of 450 metre-high towers with glass scales by Chicago firm Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture are the latest of fifteen skyscrapers commissioned for the Yongsan International Business District in Seoul, South Korea, following recently released designs by BIG and MVRDV. (more…) View the full article

Movie: following our story earlier today about the new Gardens By The Bay in Singapore, directors of landscape architects Grant Associates Andrew Grant and Keith French explain how they created the tropical garden on a slice of reclaimed land. (more…) View the full article

Rubber pellets made from recycled car tyres form the knobbly surfaces of these bowls and pots by Dutch designer Debbie Wijskamp. (more…) View the full article

A continuous band of lighting shines down onto a long concrete table at a Japanese restaurant in Sydney refurbished by architects Facet Studio (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

London Design Festival: Edward Barber and Jay Osgerby, Jasper Morrison and AL_A are among the designers who have created benches with British design brand Established & Sons for the central courtyard of the V&A museum (+slideshow). (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

ECAL graduate Su Jung-Cheng has designed a collection of boxes and flat surfaces that clip together to make stools, shelves or whatever’s needed at the time. (more…) View the full article

A spiral staircase climbs the all-timber facade of this house in Amsterdam by Dutch studio Egeon Architecten (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Scroll on for all the latest from our recruitment site Dezeen Jobs, including positions with AL_A (whose Timber Wave installation is pictured above), Skandium and Barber Osgerby, plus this is the last chance to apply for roles with Ross Lovegrove, Priestmangoode and more... (more...) View the full article

Milan 2013: pulses of electricity change the colour of this workstation unveiled by designer Ron Arad at Salone in Milan this week (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

News: Ole Bouman, former head of the Netherlands Architecture Institute, has been named as the director of a major new design museum developed in collaboration with the V&A in Shekou, Shenzhen. (more…) View the full article

London designer Benjamin Hubert has created a chair that looks like it's wrapped up in a cloak for Italian brand Moroso. (more...) View the full article

Royal College of Art graduate Bilge Nur Saltik has designed dimpled glassware that creates kaleidoscopic effects (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

Snøhetta unveiled its design for the new Paris headquarters of French newspaper Le Monde this week, so we've collected together the multidisciplinary design firm's best projects from the pages of Dezeen and pinned them to a new Pinterest board. Follow Dezeen on Pinterest | See more projects by Snøhetta View the full article

Portuguese architect Eduardo Souto de Moura has completed a cultural centre in Viana do Castelo, Portugal, which is designed to look more like a machine than a building (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

News: the forthcoming National Stadium of Japan by Zaha Hadid Architects is now set to become the main sporting venue for the 2020 Olympic and Paralympic games, following the news that Tokyo will be the host city. (more...) View the full article

Graphic designer Cristina Vanko has been writing out all the SMS messages she sends by hand with a calligraphy pen. (more...) View the full article

Dutch supermarket Spar's flagship store in Budapest features a series of undulating wooden forms through its interior by local firm LAB5 architects (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Here are some wintery views of the new spotty stadium for Belarusian football club FC BATE Borisov designed by Slovenian firm OFIS Arhitekti, which is nearing completion and looks set to open later this year (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Milan 2014: objects made out of lava from Mount Etna in Sicily will be presented by design duo Formafantasma in Milan next week (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

News: Yves Behar of San Francisco design studio fuseproject has created a new identity for PayPal as part of the brand's shift towards providing payment solutions on mobile and wearable devices (+ interview). (more...) View the full article

Venice Architecture Biennale 2014: this new movie by White Arkitetker reveals the firm's masterplan for the relocation of an entire Swedish city, before continued iron ore mining destabilises the ground beneath it (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

Opinion: the restored heritage site of Dubrovnik, with its Game of Thrones-buoyed tourism industry, is a historical drag act that exposes conflicting tensions between history, reconstruction and modernity, says Sam Jacob. (more...) View the full article

News: Norman Foster has hit back at the London city officials that have ruled out his proposal to build a new airport on the Thames estuary, claiming that the decision lacked "courage". (more...) View the full article

Sports brand Nike has combined elements from its previous running and basketball footwear designs to create a "SneakerBoot" with a pleated sole and a neoprene cover. (more...) View the full article