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A golf course with a rainwater-collecting canopy is among the architecture projects from Rio de Janeiro on our Brazil-themed Pinterest board, which we've updated ahead of the Rio 2016 Olympics. Follow Dezeen on Pinterest | See more Brazilian architecture in our archive View the full article

See the latest from our new and improved recruitment site Dezeen Jobs, including positions with Piet Boon Studio, Layer and Carlo Ratti Associati, whose projects include a concept for using the Internet of Things to create personalised office environments (pictured). This is also the last chance to apply for roles with Heatherwick Studio, MAD Architects, John McAslan & Partners and more... (more…) View the full article

Rio 2016: German art director Björn Karnebogen has created a tongue-in-cheek alternative logo for the Olympic games after a swathe of Russian athletes were found guilty of doping. (more…) View the full article

Competition: Dezeen has teamed up with Swedish brand VOID Watches to offer five readers the chance to win a V02MKII timepiece, which the brand describes as "Clever. Not Smart". (more…) View the full article

This week's job of the week on Dezeen Jobs is for a store designer with high-street fashion brand H&M, whose Korean flagship store in Seoul is pictured. Visit the ad for full details or browse other architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs. View the full article

News: Facebook has announced that Frank Gehry will design a new office in New York for its engineering team. (more...) View the full article

London Design Festival 2014: design boutique Darkroom looked to grid patterns used in the 1960s and 70s by radical Italian architecture firm Superstudio to inform its latest collection of products and in-store installations (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Corduroy-textured walls enclose planted courtyards at this funeral home in Spain's Catalonia region by Barcelona practice Barceló Balanzó Arquitectes. Read more View the full article

Installations set against the arid landscape of California's Coachella Valley for the Desert X biennial art festival include a huge orange block and a rainbow-like arch. Read more

Taiwan design studio Drilling Lab has created a selection of aluminium vessels that look like they're made from sections of industrial water pipes (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Business news: a lawsuit has uncovered details that suggest the 2014 merger between US furniture brand Herman Miller and retailer Design Within Reach may not have technically happened. (more…) View the full article

The designer for next year's Serpentine Pavilion in London will be selected by a team including architects Richard Rogers and David Adjaye, it was announced today. (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

In the next movie in our Bolon at Heart video series, Cappellini director Giulio Cappellini reveals how the Italian brand is experimenting with a new material by Swedish flooring company Bolon to upholster furniture. Read more View the full article

Japanese architect Tomohiro Hata planned this suburban house in Hyogo Prefecture as a cluster of three buildings around a courtyard, based on the traditional city residences of farmers, artisans and merchants. (more...) View the full article

News: Daniel Libeskind has spoken out against architects who create "morally questionable" buildings in undemocratic countries, calling on them to consider whether their projects are "legitimate". (more...) View the full article

London designer Adam Nathaniel Furman, has created an abstract sculpture that features in a short animation created for UK broadcaster ITV. Read more

Behind the aluminium facade of this innovation centre for the University of Toronto Mississauga, local office Moriyama & Teshima Architects has converted a courtyard into a rotunda with a glass roof (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

News: witness reports people crying in the street as "nightmare" fire continues to burn at the Mackintosh-designed Glasgow School of Art. (more...) View the full article

News: architecture firm Kohn Pedersen Fox has unveiled plans to surround the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles in a cloak of steel ribbons as part of major refurbishment. (more...) View the full article

Milan 2014: Slovenian designer Nika Zupanc has created a collection of furniture and products for London design label Sé, influenced by Modernism and sporting motifs (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Architecture studio NAAD has gutted a 100-year-old house in Kyoto and re-skinned the interior in plywood to create a temporary dwelling that is designed to look incomplete (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Canadian studio Chevalier Morales Architectes has reinterpreted the traditional Swiss chalet to create a top-heavy timber house in the mountain landscape of eastern Quebec (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

This pale brick building for Dutch financial services company Rabobank has been purposefully designed by architecture studio Mecanoo to "not look like a bank" (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Our annual A-Zdvent calendar is back! In the days leading up to Christmas we'll be highlighting an architect for each letter of the alphabet. To start off with, A is for Adjaye. His projects include the Dirty House in east London (pictured) the Moscow School of Management and two libraries in Washington DC. View the full article