This week we've selected five of the best opportunities in architecture and design available on Dezeen Jobs, including positions with the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Studio Egret West. More about Top architecture and design jobs this week include the Met and Studio Egret West
The Tiger Penis Project is a speculative design that proposes using synthetic biology to create organs that can replace the animal products used in traditional Chinese medicine, including parts from endangered species. More about Kuang-Yi Ku proposes creating hybrid animal organs for use in Chinese medicine
Portuguese studio Promontorio has transformed a 1980s office building in Lisbon into a high-tech headquarters featuring a spiralling concrete staircase. More about Promontorio adds concrete spiral staircase to 1980s office building in Lisbon
Brazilian firm Bloco Arquitetos has completed a white house in the country's capital, comprising geometric blocks that create an interplay of shadow and light. More about Stacked white volumes form Morrone House in Brazil by Bloco Arquitetos
New York firm Buro Koray Duman has redesigned the interiors of an iconic eatery in Manhattan's West Village, which has been taken over by celebrity chef Antoni Porowski. More about Buro Koray Duman revives interiors of The Village Den restaurant in New York
A pastel-pink church hall has been added to the 1930s-built Huaxiang Church in Fuzhou, southeastern China, featuring rooftop amphitheatres that offer open-air services. More about Inuce completes pink pebbledash church hall in Fuzhou
Forty brushes produced by German brand Bürstenhaus Redecker are celebrated in this exhibition curated by British designer Michael Marriott. More about Bürstenhaus Redecker Müseum is a travelling showcase of brushes
To coincide with Design Week Mexico, we've created a new Pinterest board that showcases the best architecture in Mexico City, including David Chipperfield's Nuevo Polanco and a concrete culinary school with board-marked walls. Follow Dezeen on Pinterest ›
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Christien Meindertsma: Beyond the Surface, at the Vitra Design Museum in Basel examines the designer's work with wool, flax, incinerator ash and recycled wool. More about Christien Meindertsma exhibition explores the potential uses of four materials
A library by Gonzalez Moix Arquitectura is the latest addition to a cultural complex in the residential district of La Molina, Peru, which also includes a plaza, school, and public park. More about Gonzalez Moix designs Biblioteca Sur community library in Lima
Guests at this hotel in Mexico City, designed by local architect Regina Galvanduque, can bathe in rooftop jacuzzis, drink tea on tatami mats or find zen in its courtyard garden. More about Ryo Kan hotel blends Mexican materials and Japanese traditions
Brown brick facades of Promontorio's tower in the Angolan town of Lubango recall the tones of traditional African rammed-earth buildings. More about Promontorio's brick-clad Lubango Center rises above an Angolan town square
Concrete sound mirrors, used in the UK to intercept coastal attacks in the aftermath of the first world war, are captured in this photography series by Piercarlo Quecchia. More about Piercarlo Quecchia reveals England's acoustic defences of the 1920s in Sound Mirrors photos
This week on Dezeen, Foster + Partners' giant stone Bloomberg HQ won the Stirling Prize 2018, and a concrete university building by Barclay & Crousse took home the Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize. More about This week, Foster + Partners and Barclay & Crousse won architecture prizes
American designer Anna Meddaugh has created a personal urinal that women in refugee camps can use in shelters at night to avoid the threat of sexual violence outside. More about Night Loo is a safe portable toilet for women in refugee camps
Architecture firm BIG has released renderings of its first project in South America: a curved tower covered with planted balconies that would become the tallest building in Quito. More about BIG releases plans for IQON skyscraper in Ecuador
Smokey black walls, old chimneys and machinery surround this exhibition of design collective EWE Studio's works inside a 17th-century mint in Mexico City. More about Blackened Mexico City coin factory provides moody setting for EWE exhibit
Zaha Hadid's design for a skeletal building overlooking Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro has been shelved, according to local reports. More about Zaha Hadid's first Brazilian building scrapped after long delays
London newspaper the Evening Standard has named Dezeen founder Marcus Fairs as one of the city's 1,000 most influential figures. More about Dezeen founder Marcus Fairs named one of London's most influential people
Awarding the Stirling Prize to Foster + Partners for its Bloomberg building sends the wrong message and risks runaway global warming. We need a new approach to sustainability says Phineas Harper. More about "The world's most sustainable office building isn't enough to save the planet"