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San Francisco company Molekule has partnered with London studio PostlerFerguson to design an air purifier that breaks down pollen and dust at a molecular level (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

This week we've selected five companies with plenty of job opportunities available on Dezeen Jobs, including a number of vacancies at design firm AvroKO and British studio Tom Dixon. Read more

Architect Rafael Viñoly's candid thoughts on his 432 Park Avenue tower in New York lead this week's Dezeen Mail, which also features Instagram's rebrand and robot-built architecture. Read Dezeen Mail issue 305 | Subscribe to Dezeen Mail View the full article

Squares of light shine through the perforated brick facade of this former storehouse, which architect Ryo Matsui has converted into an entertaining space after it was partially destroyed in Japan's 2011 earthquake. (more…) View the full article

Fraser Brown MacKenna Architects has obtained planning permission for a development of micro homes made from shipping containers with green roofs in Aylesbury, England. Read more

Our second project this week from British studio Simon Conder Associates is a timber-clad house built around a nineteenth-century railway carriage on Dungeness beach in Kent, England. (more...) View the full article

Australian office Tribe Studio has hollowed out the centre of a 1920s house in Sydney to create angular ceilings and a wide entrance to the garden (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Scottish architect David Burgher has developed a new virtual reality tool that mimics the visual impairments experienced by dementia sufferers to help architects design better spaces. Read more View the full article

Perforated walls and sliding timber doors feature in this stable in Uruguay by architect Nicolas Pinto da Mota (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Melike Altınışık Architects has unveiled plans for a Robot Science Museum in Seoul, which will be built using robotic construction techniques. Read more

Our job of the week on Dezeen Jobs is for a designer maker at London studio Glithero, which recently installed a kinetic "abstract clock" inside a stairwell at London's V&A museum (pictured). Visit the ad for full details or browse more architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs. View the full article

Alchemist Lauren Bowker has embedded ink that changes colour depending on different climatic conditions into a feathered garment (+ movie). (more...) View the full article

Brutalism: a 27-storey slab block is next up in our Brutalist buildings series. As the precursor to the larger and more famous Trellick Tower, Ernö Goldfinger's Balfron Tower in east London was a testbed for the architect's utopian housing ideals (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Norman Foster, Calvin Klein and Dieter Rams are among over 100 high-profile designers that have sided with Apple as it continues an ongoing patent case against tech rival Samsung. (more…) View the full article

Competition: Dezeen has teamed up with Frame Publishers to give readers the chance to win one of five books released to coincide with Dutch designer Marcel Wanders' retrospective exhibition at Amsterdam's Stedelijk Museum. (more...) View the full article

News: American firm Steven Holl Architects has begun construction of a new building for the University of Iowa’s School of Art and Art History, adjacent to the award-winning Art Building West that the practice completed in 2006. (more...) View the full article

Competition: Dezeen has teamed up with Michiel van Raaij, editor-in-chief of Dutch architecture blog Architectenweb, to give away five copies of his new book Building as Ornament. (more...) View the full article

A white timber roof masks the upper storey of this Japanese house by Takeru Shoji Architects, but is raised on wooden stilts to reveal the pale timber facade of the lower level (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

This mysterious dark gable facing the Piazzale Roma in Venice marks the entrance to a long narrow courthouse by Italian studio C+S Architects (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Work has completed on the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture by British architect David Adjaye, which is poised to open next month (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Members of a private club pay to exchange elaborately wrapped presents in ceremonies held inside this dimly lit, wood-lined room in Paris (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

This week on Dezeen, Grenfell Tower became a major talking point once again. Read more View the full article

American studio Specht Architects has renovated and expanded a "mid-century-utilitarian" carpenters' union hall building to create this hotel near downtown Austin. Read more

This Greek olive oil comes in simple circular bottles and stripped-back packaging. (more...) View the full article

This half-scale model of a spiral staircase by American studio Matter Design is made from concrete treads that slip neatly over each other. (more...) View the full article