The polycarbonate-clad Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, designed by Rem Koolhaas' firm OMA, has opened in a refurbished Soviet-era restaurant in Moscow's Gorky Park (+ slideshow). More about Garage Museum of Contemporary Art by OMA opens in Moscow
Architecture studio Walker Workshop claims to have "taken a hillside apart and put it back together" to create the subterranean base of this house in Southern California, which is topped by glass-walled living spaces and an infinity pool. More about California home for a violinist features underground rooms and a rooftop pool
Construction work has begun on Foster + Partners' delayed New York tower at 425 Park Avenue (+ slideshow). More about Foster + Partners' New York skyscraper will be first new office tower on Park Avenue in 50 years
This week we reported on architectural projects comprising irregularly stacked boxes – a typology increasingly employed by architects – including Bjarke Ingels' skyscraper for New York, Ole Scheeren's high-rise building in Vancouver and a Parisian nursery by Samuel Delmas. Click through for a roundup of architecture and design news from the past seven days, plus our regular featured music track. More about This week on Dezeen
Our US job of the week on Dezeen Jobs is for a senior industrial designer at M.A.C Cosmetics in New York. Visit the ad for full details or browse other architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs.
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These bowls are formed by a robot that injects paths of resin into sand-filled containers, forming solidified objects that are then dug out like ancient artefacts (+ movie). More about Jon McTaggart forms sand bowls using robot-injected resin
New York 2015: in the next of our series of interviews with New York designers, David Weeks explains how he kickstarted the city's vibrant design scene – and why he doesn't want to be typecast as a lighting designer (+ slideshow). More about "I don't want to be the lighting guy" says New York designer David Weeks
Milan Expo 2015: Nendo has played with the perspective of a dining table and chairs to present a range of tableware inside the Japanese pavilion at the Milan Expo (+ slideshow). More about Nendo creates dining room optical illusion at Japan's Expo pavilion
Competition: Dezeen has teamed up with Architizer to offer readers the chance to win one of five copies of a book featuring architecture projects by the winners of this year's A+ Awards. More about Competition: five A+ Awards 2015 annuals to be won
Architect Ole Scheeren has unveiled his first solo project outside of Asia – a Vancouver skyscraper that will feature a series of offset apartments protruding from the facade in a cluster of irregularly stacked glass boxes (+ slideshow). More about Ole Scheeren's Vancouver skyscraper will offer a "new typology for vertical living"
Dutch architecture firm MVRDV has won a competition to design the Cultural Cluster in the heart of the city of Zaanstad, with a proposal to group multiple institutions inside one building – each with their own house-shaped presence on the facade. More about MVRDV's Zaanstad Cultural Cluster will house five Dutch institutions in one building
Our job of the week on Dezeen Jobs is for a design leader at Martha Schwartz Partners, whose garden for the 2011 Xi’an International Horticultural Expo is pictured. Visit the ad for full details or browse other architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs.
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Students from Swiss university ÉCAL are the latest designers to refit an apartment in Le Corbusier's Cité Radieuse housing block in Marseille. More about ÉCAL students take over Appartement N°50 at Le Corbusier's Cité Radieuse
Singapore-based Ministry of Design has used a 100-year-old colonial building in Malaysia as a "cookie cutter" for a contemporary extension featuring the same profile and materials (+ slideshow). More about Ministry of Design adds contemporary extension to century-old Malaysian heritage building
A huge lightbox is wedged underneath a wave-shaped viewing platform at the end of this pier, designed by Dutch architect René van Zuuk for a lake in the city of Almere (+ slideshow). More about René van Zuuk creates a wavy pier with an integrated lightbox over an Almere lake
Over 100 products designed by Dieter Rams are the subject of an exhibition at a Paris gallery, which explores the German designer's philosophy of "less but better" (+ slideshow). More about Paris exhibition aims to illustrate Dieter Rams' principles of good design
Slovenian studio OFIS Arhitekti has converted a run-down old cattle barn into an Alpine holiday cabin (+ slideshow). More about Alpine Barn Apartment by OFIS Arhitekti is a holiday home in a converted cattle shed
British designers Jay Osgerby and Edward Barber have contributed to the growing trend for glass furniture with a series of cabinets created to display "those weird objects you find" at flea markets. More about Barber and Osgerby design glass cabinets to showcase their own "quantities of junk"
Movie: in this movie, French architect Annabel Karim Kassar explains how her Camera Chiara installation recreated the atmosphere of a Lebanese house in a Milanese courtyard. More about Annabel Karim Kassar’s telescopic pavilions bring a taste of Lebanon to Milan
Opinion: in the noughties, architects OMA worked on a series of optimistic projects for the European Union, including a proposal for a colourful EU Barcode flag and an exhibition suggesting that a united Europe "could be fun". With the EU looking increasingly fragile, OMA partner Reinier de Graaf wonders if they should have bothered. More about "More than just a political system, Europe is a form of modernisation"