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Alison Brooks creates giant smile using cross-laminated tulipwood

London Design Festival 2016: architect Alison Brooks has pushed the limits of cross-laminated timber with The Smile, an inhabitable "mega-tube" with both of its ends raised up into the air (+ slideshow).

 
 

Job of the week: junior design architect at Büro Ole Scheeren

Dezeen Jobs architecture and design recruitment

Our job of the week on Dezeen Jobs is for junior design architect at Büro Ole Scheeren in Berlin, which won World Building of the Year 2015 with its "vertical village" in Singapore (pictured). Visit the ad for full details or browse more architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs.

 
 

Omer Arbel suspends aluminium lighting sculpture above Barbican foyer

London Design Festival 2016: Bocci's creative director Omer Arbel has created a site-specific lighting installation for London's Barbican Centre (+ movie).

 
 

Four angular white volumes form house in Mallorca by OHLAB

Oliver Hernaiz Architecture Lab has completed a house on the Spanish island of Mallorca, made up of white blocks that are all oriented towards different viewpoints (+ slideshow).

 
 

OMA and Bengler propose digital platform to disrupt the sharing economy

OMA has teamed up with creative studio Bengler to propose Panda, a app that allows workers being exploited digital sharing platforms like Uber and Airbnb to fight back against their employers.

 
 

Norwegian climbing centre by Reiulf Ramstad Arkitekter resembles a snow-capped mountain

The jagged form of this climbing centre by Reiulf Ramstad Arkitekter is covered in grey, brown and white shingles that reference a snow-covered mountain behind the building (+ slideshow).

 
 

Giant window fills gable end of Hamptons guest house by TA Dumbleton

Brooklyn studio TA Dumbleton Architect took cues from two divergent typologies – an old farmhouse and a city loft – while designing this weekend retreat on Long Island in New York (+ slideshow).

 
 

Brexit could trigger skills crisis in architecture and construction says RIBA

Brexit: the Royal Institute of British Architects has written to the UK's Brexit minister David Davis to warn that construction is facing a skills deficit.

 
 

Issey Miyake and Muji among participants at first New York Textile Month

Dezeen promotion: an Issey Miyake fabric-pleating demonstration, a talk at Muji's flagship store and an installation made of recycled materials will take place during the inaugural New York Textile Month (+ slideshow)

 
 

Architects create 10 installations for RIBA Regent Street Windows 2016

London Design Festival 2016: architecture firms have created installations along one of London's most famous shopping streets for the Royal Institute of British Architects' annual Regent Street Windows project (+movie).

 
 

World Trade Center lamps by Rolf Bruggink are designed to be dismantled

These models of New York's Twin Towers by Rolf Bruggink can be stacked to create a pair of columnar lanterns or collapsed to form stools (+ slideshow).

 
 

Marc Newson joins rapidly growing number of supporters for Dezeen's Brexit Design Manifesto

BDM: Marc Newson and more sign

Brexit Design Manifesto: designer Marc Newson and architect Patrik Schumacher are among the leading industry figures to have added their names to the Brexit Design Manifesto since its launch yesterday.

 
 

Dezeen Mail issue 323 features this week's best stories and discussions

Dezeen Mail issue 323 features this week's best stories and discussions

The launch of Dezeen's Brexit Design Manifesto features in this week's issue of Dezeen Mail, along with a honeycomb structure of 154 staircases by Thomas Heatherwick and a Tokyo museum dedicated to architectural models (pictured).

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Asif Khan and MINI create "forests" in see-through boxes across east London

London Design Festival 2016: architect Asif Khan has created three temporary pavilions thick with plants to give the harried London public space to relax, work and socialise (+ slideshow).

 
 

Saks Fifth Avenue opens Downtown Manhattan outpost by Found

A branch of luxury department store Saks Fifth Avenue has opened close to the World Trade Center site in New York, with interiors designed by London studio Found (+ slideshow).

 
 
 
   
 
 

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