Lödige Industries' automated car park has been installed beneath a library in Denmark, which was designed by Schmidt Hammer Lassen (+ movie). More about Europe's biggest robotic car park opens below Scandinavia's largest library
Our US job of the week on Dezeen Jobs is for a director of competitions at the Van Alen Institute in New York, which organises an annual contest to design a holiday installation in the Flatiron district (pictured). Visit the ad for full details or browse other architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs.
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A London borough came under fire earlier this month for rejecting plans to transform a car park into 800 creative studios, but architect Carl Turner says his alternative proposal will offer a resource for the entire local community, not just artists. More about Carl Turner's Peckham plans will provide spaces for "ordinary people" as well as creatives
New York-based architecture firm REX has been chosen to design a performing arts centre at the World Trade Center site in Lower Manhattan, replacing Frank Gehry's previous stacked-box design. More about REX Architecture to replace Gehry on World Trade Center performing arts centre job
Competition: Dezeen has teamed up with Swedish brand VOID Watches to offer five readers the chance to win a limited-edition timepiece (+ slideshow). More about Competition: five limited-edition timepieces by VOID Watches to be won
American fashion designer Jeremy Scott has added his signature wing motifs to a collection of baby pushchairs and buggies by German brand Cybex, unveiled at luxury Milan boutique 10 Corso Como this week. More about Jeremy Scott debuts winged Cybex prams at 10 Corso Como
World Architecture Festival 2015: in this exclusive movie, architect Kai-Uwe Bergmann explains how BIG's proposed skyscraper in Vancouver is designed to transform a site dominated by a motorway flyover into an attractive neighbourhood. More about BIG's Vancouver House aims to transform motorway flyover into a "wonderful civic space"
Paris firm BVAU has built an extension to the headquarters of a French social security agency, featuring a glass facade that opens and closes automatically in response to the climate (+ slideshow). More about BVAU designs translucent bioclimatic skin for French social-security agency HQ
Famous architects from David Chipperfield to Herzog & de Meuron, Norman Foster and Álvaro Siza are working on residential towers in Manhattan.
But the wave of skinny skyscrapers, mainly filled with luxury apartments, has sparked protests over shadows in Central Park. It has also prompted concerns over spiralling inequality in the city, with Steven Holl warning that "architecture with a sense of social purpose is becoming increasingly rare" in the city. See more New York skyscrapers »
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Images of British architect David Chipperfield's first residential tower in Manhattan have been released to entice buyers into purchasing luxury units starting at $2 million (£1.3 million). More about David Chipperfield's first New York residential tower to open in 2017
Our job of the week on Dezeen Jobs is for two experienced interior designers at Richard Hutten Studio in Rotterdam, whose multicoloured Layered Cloud Chair uses 545 stacked layers of fabric (pictured). Visit the ad for full details or browse other architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs.
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A team of architects and designers have used a huge robot to construct a 130-square-metre building inside a former industrial machine hall in Rotterdam (+ movie). More about Studio RAP completes "first robotically fabricated building in the Netherlands"
A portable circuit-board printer that could dramatically reduce prototyping and production time for designers has been awarded the 2015 international James Dyson Award. More about Laptop-sized Voltera V-One circuit-board printer wins 2015 Dyson Award
Graduate students at the Yale School of Architecture have designed and built a contemporary family home in a low-income neighbourhood in New Haven, Connecticut (+ slideshow). More about Cedar-clad house by Yale students could serve as a model for affordable housing
Carpenters Workshop Gallery, which showcases work by leading contemporary designers such as Studio Job and Robert Stadler, has opened a location in New York to strengthen its presence in the American market (+ slideshow). More about Carpenters Workshop Gallery opens its first US branch in New York
AMBS Architects has proposed a 1,152-metre-tall skyscraper for Iraq's Basra Province, which would surpass Jeddah's Kingdom Tower and Dubai's Burj Khalifa to become the tallest building in the world (+ slideshow). More about World's tallest building planned for Iraq's Basra Province
This London townhouse by Jamie Fobert Architects features handmade bricks, bronze panelling and Georgian-inspired window shutters. More about Jamie Fobert pairs handmade bricks with bronze panelling for London townhouse
Opinion: former Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili may be wanted on multiple criminal charges in his home country, but his architectural legacy has helped him win political favour in Ukraine, says Owen Hatherley. More about "Saakashvili didn't need interesting architects to design the New Georgia"
Dezeen promotion: What Design Can Do, a conference that aims to promote the role of design as a tool for social change, is launching its first event in São Paulo with a nature-themed series of talks. More about What Design Can Do conference in São Paulo will focus on nature in design
Graphic designer Stefan Sagmeister's exhibition documenting his psychological and substance-related explorations into happiness has taken up residence at the MAK museum in Vienna (+ slideshow). More about Stefan Sagmeister's The Happy Show moves to Vienna's MAK