As architecture and design students prepare for their final shows, we’ve collected together our guide to the best graduation gifts, from a watch based on architectural drawings to a lightweight electric bicycle for the commute to their first job and a sofa for their first post-student flat (+ slideshow). (more…)
An exhibition has opened at London’s V&A museum charting the career and legacy of Ove Arup, who “forged a new role for engineers” in the 20th century (+ slideshow). (more…)
London creative agency Studio Mills has completed a Manhattan store for online watch brand Larsson & Jennings, featuring a cantilevered display counter and a bar serving typical Swedish refreshments (+ slideshow). (more…)
These new images by British photographer Jim Stephenson offer a look around Herzog & de Meuron‘s extension to Tate Modern in London, which officially opened on Friday (+ slideshow). (more…)
Competition: Dezeen has teamed up with New London Architecture to give readers the chance to win one of five pairs of tickets to a lecture delivered by architecture collective Assemble later this month. (more…)
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill has completed a 55-storey tower in Beijing with exterior glass panels that function as prisms, capturing and refracting daylight (+ slideshow). (more…)
See the latest from our new and improved recruitment site Dezeen Jobs, including positions with Oppenheim Architecture + Design, Benthem Crouwel Architects and David Kohn Architects, whose projects include a house extension designed to look like the profile of a fox (pictured). This is also the last chance to apply for roles with Squint/Opera, NC Design + Architecture, AB Rogers Design and more…
Most Loved: in this exclusive movie, British designer Tom Dixon says the light that helped turn his company into an international brand would have been less successful if the design had achieved what he set out to create. (more…)
Architecture studio Edwards Moore has converted a small Melbourne apartment into a Airbnb-style rental property, where guests are invited to buy the furniture, art and accessories when they leave. (more…)
Design Miami/Basel 2016: Italian design collective Nucleo has continued to cast furniture in resin, this time including a classic bentwood Thonet chair among three new pieces for Cologne’s Ammann Gallery (+ slideshow). (more…)
