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"
London Festival of Architecture 2015: wrapped around a tree trunk in east London's Hoxton Square, this translucent pod provides temporary office space intended to encourage workers into the borough's parks (+ slideshow). More about Pop-up office created around a tree trunk in London's Hoxton Square
Japanese architect Tadao Ando has revealed details about his first building in New York City, explaining that he wanted to "create something that only a Japanese person could do" (+ movie). More about Tadao Ando says his first New York building will be "a very quiet piece of architecture"
McDonald's golden restaurant in Rotterdam, sex toys created to subvert stereotypes and BIG's stacked-box skyscraper design for New York (pictured), feature in this week's Dezeen Mail. Click through for our pick of the best news, jobs and reader comments from Dezeen.
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Brooklyn studio Tokenlights has designed a set of hand-blown glass pendants based on the fruit of a rare Japanese plant (+ slideshow). More about Tokenlights creates pendant lamps shaped like Japanese fruit
Dezeen promotion: architects, designers and multidisciplinary teams are invited to submit proposals for preserving Cambodia's Tonle Sap lake as part of a competition organised by Eleven magazine (+ slideshow). More about Call for entries to Eleven's Cambodia architecture competition
Set against a background of mature trees in rural Portugal, this primary school is separated into a series of brick structures intended to help fragment the building and lessen its impact on the landscape (+ slideshow). More about Brick blocks hold separate classrooms at Fonte de Angeão School by Miguel Marcelino