US firm Ross Barney Architects has completed a transit station for an emerging Chicago neighbourhood, featuring a tubular structure made of stainless steel and polycarbonate panels (+ slideshow). More about Ross Barney Architects wraps a Chicago rail station in a perforated tube
Our US job of the week on Dezeen Jobs is for a full-time faculty position in designed objects at the School of Art Institute of Chicago, which is partly housed in the Chicago museum that was extended by architects Renzo Piano Building Workshop (pictured). Visit the ad for full details or browse other architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs.
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Pomo summer: Memphis Group designer Martine Bedin's Super Lamp can be trailed along like a dog on a leash, demonstrating the collective's playful style. This next article in our summer series on Postmodernism tells the story behind one of Memphis' most comical products. More about Postmodern design: Super Lamp by Martine Bedin
Berlin architecture firm Atheorem has used dark grey curtains and metallic fixtures to update an apartment that dates back to the late 1800s in the city's Mitte district. More about Atheorem refurbishes compact apartment in Berlin's Mitte district
This pavilion in Holon, Israel, designed by New York-based architects MODU with Geotectura, has a dynamic canopy made of mesh fabric and small balls that move with the wind (+ movie). More about Cloud Seeding Pavilion by MODU features canopy made of 30,000 plastic balls
Australian design brand Page Thirty Three has released a range of homeware, including objects that owners are encouraged to "complete" themselves. More about Page Thirty Three launches customisable Tactile Equations homeware collection
Sheltered beneath an oversized roof, this tiny timber cabin by AA graduate Nozomi Nakabayashi stands on stilts among the oak trees of a wood in Dorset, England (+ slideshow). More about Nozomi Nakabayashi creates writer's hut on stilts in the Dorset woods
Future Makers: today we're launching a new collaboration with Autodesk exploring the future of making things. In the first movie in the series, Dutch designer Anouk Wipprecht tells us about the digital tools she used to create a collection of interactive 3D-printed dresses for Audi. More about Anouk Wipprecht integrates parking sensors and headlights into 3D-printed fashion collection
Brazilian firm Vitrô Arquitetura has renovated a 1960s apartment in São Paulo, revealing structural concrete pillars and brickwork walls (+ slideshow). More about Vitrô Arquitetura exposes structural concrete pillars within 1960s São Paulo apartment
The three parallel boxes that form this house in Tel Aviv all culminate in a full-height glazed wall facing the garden, while large square apertures puncture the various side walls (+ slideshow). More about Three white boxes extend into the garden of Paritzki & Liani's T/A House
Belgian creative agency Dift has designed the interiors for a loft apartment housed in a former office space in the centre of Ghent (+ slideshow). More about Dift transforms former Ghent office space into WATT loft apartment
A house-shaped extension protrudes from the side of this children's centre by Seoul studio UTAA, providing a playful space for reading that faces out onto a garden (+ slideshow). More about UTAA extends South Korean children's centre with "a house within a house"
A requirement for this house in Matsuyama, Japan, was for views of the city's summer firework display, so architect Teruki Takayoshi added a balcony, a roof terrace and a two-storey-high window (+ slideshow). More about Matsuyama house by TTArchitects features dedicated spaces for watching fireworks
Photo essay: London-based photographer John Short was determined to depict the death of New York's creative scene, but his images of its once-legendary arts venues proved that the spaces are far from "lost" (+ slideshow). More about John Short rediscovers New York's lost creative spaces
London architect Simon Astridge has renovated the disused basement of a kitchen showroom in Putney, adding textured materials and a spiral-shaped wine vault with a glass trapdoor (+ movie). More about Simon Astridge creates "wine cave" beneath south London kitchen showroom
British designer Kris Lamba has folded a 20-metre-long piece of carbon fibre into a chair that facilitates different sitting positions (+ slideshow). More about Kris Lamba's RV1 Carbon Chair is made from a single carbon-fibre sheet
This oxidised-steel extension to an end-of-terrace Victorian house in east London peeks over the top of the adjacent brick boundary wall, which is interrupted by a matching steel gate (+ slideshow). More about HÛT uses pre-rusted steel for extension to Victorian brick house in London
Turkish creative consultancy Designnobis has devised a temporary shelter that could be easily transported and quickly assembled to house those displaced by natural disasters (+ slideshow). More about Designnobis proposes pop-up disaster relief shelter for earthquake-affected families
Architects are increasingly proposing new architectural uses for shipping containers, such as replacing slum housing with skyscrapers formed from the stacked metal boxes and forming staircases by balancing them at an angle. We've collected together the best shipping-container projects, both realised and proposed, from the pages of Dezeen and pinned them to a new Pinterest board.
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A timber sunshade folds in on itself to form a balcony for this nautical-inspired house overlooking the Mediterranean sea near Saint-Tropez, designed by London architecture office Jak Studio (+ slideshow). More about Timber sunshade becomes a viewing deck for retreat near Saint-Tropez by Jak Studio