The government’s House of Commons committee has announced plans for an inquiry that will focus in part on employment within the creative industries post Brexit. (more…)

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This week we’re counting down the most-pinned brick interiors on Dezeen, including an auditorium in the Netherlands featuring vertical brickwork and a converted 1920s shophouse in Singapore (+ slideshow). (more…)

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London Design Festival 2016: French designer Mathieu Lehanneur has convincingly sculpted blocks of black marble to look like the sea for an installation at the V&A museum. (more…)

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Nendo has taken its collection of chairs based on Japanese manga comics to New York, where they are on show as part of a light installation at Friedman Benda gallery (+ movie). (more…)

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Dezeen promotion: New London Architecture is now accepting entries for Don’t Move, Improve! 2017, a competition to find the best house extensions in London. (more…)

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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). (more…)

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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.

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

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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). (more…)

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OMA has teamed up with creative studio Bengler to propose a “disruption-as-a-service toolkit” for the workers of digital sharing platforms like Uber and Airbnb. (more…)

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