Opinion: the Chicago Architecture Biennial's diverse range of participants and mediums offers hope for the future of the discipline, despite protestations from self-appointed "gatekeepers" of the profession like Patrik Schumacher, says Mimi Zeiger. More about "Architecture is finally moving beyond a homogeneous status quo"
The governor of Illinois has announced plans to sell Helmut Jahn's James R Thompson Center in Chicago – a move that could lead to the demolition of the Postmodern government office building. More about Helmut Jahn's Thompson government centre faces demolition threat
Our US job of the week on Dezeen Jobs is for an interior designer at the studio of Karim Rashid, the New York designer who created the curvaceous interior of Munich sex shop Fun Factory (pictured). Visit the ad for full details or browse other architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs.
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Italian design office Make That Studio has unveiled a jug based on the water-smoothed shapes of riverbed pebbles (+ slideshow). More about Make That Studio designs minimal version of traditional Sicilian jug
As SelgasCano's Serpentine Gallery Pavilion closes this weekend, this movie by Stephenson/Bishop takes a closer look at the details of colourful plastic structure, which will now move to a permanent home in Los Angeles (+ movie). More about SelgasCano's Serpentine Gallery Pavilion closes this weekend after attracting 170,000 visitors
Thousands of curved tiles cover the gabled rooftops of the new folk-art galleries at the China Academy of Arts, designed by Japanese firm Kengo Kuma & Associates to look like a small village (+ slideshow). More about Kengo Kuma creates sprawling "village" of folk-art galleries for China Academy of Arts
A deep slice through the body of this house by Japanese studio Alphaville reveals a trio of staircases that angle up between different rooms (+ slideshow). More about Alphaville's Slice of the City is a house cut into two uneven sections
Our job of the week on Dezeen Jobs is for intermediate architects at the Beijing headquarters of MAD Architects, which modelled its Chaoyang Park Plaza (pictured) on the topography depicted in Chinese landscape paintings. Visit the ad for full details or browse other architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs.
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Italian architect Renzo Piano has unveiled plans to convert a power station on the banks of Moscow's Moskva river into a new venue for contemporary art. More about Renzo Piano to convert Moscow power station into art gallery
Dutch Design Week 2015: Eindhoven designer Jessica Smarsch used digitally captured body movements to inform the raised patterns across the clothes in this fashion collection. More about Jessica Smarsch transforms muscle movements into textured garments
Seoul studio Doojin Hwang Architects has completed a stone house with a bowed roof for a citrus farm on the South Korean island of Jeju (+ slideshow). More about Stone residence by Doojin Hwang stands among citrus trees on Jeju island
American artist Jennifer Angus has used an intricate pattern of insects to decorate a vivid pink room at the Renwick Gallery in Washington DC, set to reopen next month following renovation work (+ slideshow). More about Bugs adorn the walls at renovated Renwick Gallery in Washington DC
The overhaul of a Modernist 1950s school for girls in London by Allford Hall Monaghan Morris has won the RIBA Stirling Prize 2015 for the biggest contribution to British architecture in the last year (+ slideshow). More about Burntwood School by Allford Hall Monaghan Morris wins Stirling Prize 2015
Londoners working in the creative industry have an almost 20 per cent higher average hourly salary compared to those in non-creative jobs, according to a government report. More about London creatives paid more than city's average hourly wage
Designed to looked like a four-petalled flower, this office block is the first of 10 buildings that Dutch firm MVRDV is constructing beside Shanghai's Hongqiao Airport (+ slideshow). More about MVRDV completes flower-inspired office block near Shanghai Hongqiao Airport
This week's Dezeen Mail features BIG's plans for an art gallery that twists across a river, Elon Musk's attack on tech giant Apple and Marc Newson's mammoth-ivory tea set. There's also the latest news, jobs and reader comments from Dezeen.
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Modelled on the head of a windswept woman, this copper observation pod is one of three holiday homes completed by South Korean architect Moon Hoon on a stone-walled plot on Jeju Island (+ slideshow). More about Golden observation pod tops Jeju island holiday cottages by Moon Hoon
Business news: Bradford Shellhammer's online design retailer Bezar has announced the addition of a digital marketplace to its current offerings of pop-up and flash sales (+ slideshow). More about Bezar launches e-commerce site Storefronts to offer a "broad view of design"
Aerospace company Boeing has released a film that demonstrates the properties of what it describes as "the lightest metal ever" (+ movie). More about Microlattice metal is "world's lightest material" says Boeing
Los Angeles-based Lorcan O'Herlihy Architects (LOHA) has restored and updated the Julius Shulman Home and Studio in the Hollywood Hills, where the influential photographer lived for six decades (+ slideshow). More about LOHA updates mid-century home built for legendary photographer Julius Shulman