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Caroline Baumann has "abruptly stepped down" from her position as director of the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, the New York Times has reported. Read more View the full article

Dezeen's Face to Face podcast series continues with a conversation with Dutch industrial designer Hella Jongerius, who explains how she grew up on a tomato farm and discovered her creative ability when she took an evening course in carpentry. Read more View the full article

This week, commenters are divided over whether it's time for production to start again in Italy after factories closed in a bid to fight Covid-19. Read more View the full article

Puma is introducing Design to Fade, a biodegradable sportswear collection, as part of the VDF x Ventura Projects collaboration. Read more View the full article

Tom Kundig has selected his 10 favourite projects, including a house in Rio de Janeiro and a hillside winery in British Columbia, ahead of the release of a monograph detailing the American architect's work. Read more View the full article

Here is another project by our featured architects Suppose Design Office, this time the renovation of a house in Hiroshima city, Japan, where interiors are divided by walls that only reach halfway down from the ceiling. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Shanghai Expo 2010: architectural photographer Iñigo Bujedo Aguirre has send us another update from Shanghai Expo 2010; this time the German Pavilion designed by architects Schmidhuber + Kaindl. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This sloping Corten steel footbridge by Spanish civil engineers Alfa Polaris straddles a main road to connect two parts of Granollers, Spain. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Here’s some more nautical design from London designers PostlerFerguson (see their buoy-shaped lamps in our earlier story), this time a set of wooden toy ships. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This algae-producing tower designed by Sir Peter Cook and Gavin Robotham of London studio CRAB came second in the recent Taiwan Tower Conceptual International Competition. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This house in Hiroshima city by Japanese firm Suppose Design Office has a central staircase branching into wooden volumes that create a series of rooms and platforms. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Japanese architects Takeshi Hosaka have completed this office building in the Tokyo suburb of Yoyogi. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Architect Keiichi Hayashi of Japan has converted this traditional timber townhouse in central Kyoto into a cosmetics store. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

The façade of this house in Valencia by Spanish architects BBLab Arquitectos is punctured with a pattern of circular holes. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Mark Nixon of London studio CZWG has turned a bridge in Aarhus, Denmark, into a musical instrument by hanging metal pipes from the underside. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This Barcelona cafe looks more like a warehouse, with everything from sofas to fridges housed within tall shelving units. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Scroll on for all the latest from our recruitment site Dezeen Jobs, including positions with us at Dezeen, Hopkins Architects and Sugru, plus this is the last chance to apply for roles with David Chipperfield Architects, Marcel Wanders and more… (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Chinese architects MAD have sent us new images of a remote museum they completed earlier this year in the Gobi desert. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Ribbed timber framework folds around the walls and ceiling of this bar in Porto by Portuguese studio AVA Architects (photos by José Campos). (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Milan 2012: in response to the growing number of freelancers looking for workspaces outside of their homes, London studio Aberrant Architecture have created pub tables that can be adapted into desks by day and games tables by night. (more…) View the full article

We just sent the latest issue of our Dezeen Mail newsletter, which leads with the completion of London’s Olympic venues and, in particular, our readers’ horrified reaction to Anish Kapoor’s ArcelorMittal Orbit sculpture (above). One commenter described as an “evil scientist’s lair“. Also included in this issue are all the latest jobs, competitions (including how to win a £520 bike), music tracks plus the usual round-up of the best stories and comments from the past week. Read Dezeen Mail issue 101 » Subscribe to Dezeen Mail » View the full article

This picture frame by Odoardo Fioravanti is specifically designed to annoy people with obsessive-compulsive disorder. (more…) View the full article

Dezeen Wire: Dezeen has been named Digital Business Publisher of the Year 2012 by the Association of Online Publishers. Judges of the AOP 2012 Awards described Dezeen as “A smart entrepreneurial brand, with beautifully designed products – from websites to pop-up shops. Strong evidence of experimentation, fast growing revenue and audience”. (more…) View the full article

This small faceted house by Japanese studios D.I.G Architects and Nawakenji-m is embedded in a steep slope overlooking the city of Nagoya (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Dutch studio i29 have coated everything in grey at this pop-up furniture shop in Amsterdam. (more…) View the full article