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Architect Daniel Delgoffe has renovated and extended old brick boiler house to create a new home for ESAC, a leading Belgian circus school. Read more

This week's job of the week on Dezeen Jobs is for a 3D architectural visualiser at Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners, whose design for four waterfront skyscrapers in Abu Dhabi is pictured. Visit the ad for full details or browse other architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs. View the full article

Curving brass partitions and vaulted stone ceilings both feature inside this Japanese beauty store in Paris, designed by local architecture firm Archiee. Read more

French designers Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec have put their spin on the humble roller blind using textiles the duo created for Danish brand Kvadrat (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

OMA, MAD and Studio Gang are among seven teams vying to overhaul Paris' Tour Montparnasse – a 209-metre tower that caused such uproar on completion that it sparked a 42-year skyscraper ban in the city. Read more View the full article

Hacked Ikea kitchens by famous architects dominated the headlines this week, so we've updated our dedicated Pinterest board with some of the best examples of kitchen design from the pages of Dezeen. Follow Dezeen on Pinterest | See more kitchens on Dezeen View the full article

World Heritage Corb: many of French-Swiss architect Le Corbusier's most important works feature on our latest Pinterest board, which we've created to mark the end of our series exploring the 17 of his buildings recently added to UNESCO's World Heritage List. Follow Dezeen on Pinterest | See more Le Corbusier in our archive View the full article

A pedestrian bridge in Bristol, England, is the latest architectural landmark to be enveloped in fog by Japanese artist Fujiko Nakaya (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Jan Hendzel Studio has designed a range of wooden furnishings for a pop-up cafe at Camberwell College of Arts, forming part of the £62 million redevelopment of the southeast London campus (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

This week's Dezeen Mail includes a concept proposing meatballs made out of insects for Ikea, Apple's gadget to increase iPhone 6 battery life and our Christmas gift guide, which features a Lego set created for architects (pictured). Read Dezeen Mail issue 283 | Subscribe to Dezeen Mail View the full article

British Designer Michael Young's LessThanFive carbon fibre chair for US-based furniture company Coalesse is launching after two years of development. (more…) View the full article

This conceptual house would be wrapped entirely in a plastic insulating material normally used on roofs. Intended for Łódź in Poland, it’s the lowercase letter l in our A-Zdvent calendar. Read more about l House » View the full article

Stockholm 2015: London design studio Industrial Facility has collaborated with Swedish lighting company Wästberg to create lamps that provide power from multiple USB outlets. (more…) View the full article

American studio Graham Baba Architects has used perforated metal, blackened steel and salvaged wood to create an industrial-style, mixed-use building in Seattle, which includes a beer hall. Read more

Barcelona designer Martin Azua has created a table that plays on the contrast in properties between wood and stone (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

London-based director Fernando Lazzari combined 3D animation with 360 degree images of natural environments to develop a "unique universe" in the music video for Reid Willis' The Slow Knife (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

Stockholm 2016: Sweden-based Note Design Studio has created a collection of shelves for furniture brand Fogia that feature half-moon shapes created by bent wooden supports. (more…) View the full article

Jagged tunnels edged with red trim, scooped walls and wave-like canopies are among the defining features of these vacant concrete skateparks in California, photographed by artist Amir Zaki. Read more

Dutch designer Ineke Hans plays on traditional Canadian furniture as part of these collections for remote artists' community Fogo Island (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

The curvaceous Panton Chair by Danish designer Verner Panton continues our alphabetical list of iconic seating designs for the run up to Christmas. (more…) View the full article

Two of the UK's leading architecture magazines have announced a reshuffle with the appointment of new editors for the Architects' Journal and the Architectural Review. (more…)

Creating communally for social good has to be the future of design, says Robert Phillips, author of Futurekind: Design by and for the People. He picks out five projects from the book that demonstrate the idea in action. Read more

Architect Guilherme Machado Vaz has completed the geometric House in Afife, in Portugal, which appears as a solid volume when its shutters are closed. Read more

Foster + Partners has been appointed to design an £8 billion transport system for Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, that will encompass a network of new metro, ferry, bus, and cycle terminals. (more…)

Forming a new end to a 1960s housing estate in London, this timber-framed house extension was designed to look contemporary but also to match the aesthetic of the original block (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article