Interview: in this exclusive interview, IKEA's design manager Marcus Engman reveals how the Swedish furniture giant is using design to overhaul its reputation for "doing cheap stuff". More about "I want to bring the surprise back to IKEA" says head of design
News: construction is now underway on M+, a new museum of visual culture in Hong Kong's West Kowloon Cultural District designed by Swiss firm Herzog & de Meuron. More about Construction of Herzog & de Meuron's M+ museum begins in Hong Kong
Our job of the week on Dezeen Jobs is for architects at Studio Fuksas, whose terminal at Shenzhen Bao'an International Airport in China is pictured. Visit the ad for full details or browse other architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs.
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Business news: Christopher Turner is leaving British design and architecture magazine Icon to join the organisation behind London's annual design festival. More about Icon editor Christopher Turner named deputy director of London Design Festival
News: Spanish architect Andrés Jaque has won this year's MoMA PS1 Young Architects Program contest, with plans to turn the courtyard of the New York gallery into a water filtration plant. More about Andrés Jaque to create water-purifying pipe network for MoMA PS1 Young Architects Program
The stepped profile of this house in Japan by architecture studio IHRMK gives clues about the complicated layout of rooms contained within. More about IHRMK's house with a staggered profile looks out over a landscape of paddy fields
Designers Max Frommeld and Arno Mathies have introduced modern plastic hinging to a traditional sled construction, forming a snow-skimming vehicle that can be folded flat (+ slideshow). More about Max Frommeld and Arno Mathies create a folding sled
Two curving staircases encircle the exterior of this wedding chapel by Tokyo-based architect Hiroshi Nakamura, meeting at a rooftop platform that overlooks the Hiroshima coastline (+ slideshow). More about Intertwining staircases spiral around the glazed core of Hiroshi Nakamura's Ribbon Chapel
Opinion: OMA partner Reinier de Graaf offers his top 10 tips for architects interested in branching out into urban consultancy, including "avoid writing" and "invoice early and invoice often". More about At your service: 10 tips for becoming a successful urban consultant
News: architect Zaha Hadid is working with airport specialist ADPI on plans for a major new terminal in Daxing, Beijing, that will accommodate 45 million passengers per year. More about Zaha Hadid unveils designs for "world's largest airport passenger terminal" in Beijing
News: architecture firm Gensler wants to repurpose London's abandoned tube tunnels to create a subterranean network of pathways that generate electricity as people walk and cycle through them. More about London's derelict tube tunnels reimagined as a pedestrian and cycle network
Daniel Libeskind's convention centre with a pointed prow (pictured), Ilse Crawford's "deliberately low-key" collection for Ikea and a judgemental book cover feature in Dezeen Mail issue 239. Click through for all the latest news, jobs and reader comments from Dezeen.
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Perforated brick walls enclose the concrete structure of an old house in central Vietnam, which has been remodelled by architecture studio Tropical Space (+ slideshow). More about Perforated brick house by Tropical Space is based on termites' nests
Small Discoveries: in our second movie for Perrier-Jouët, Viennese design duo Mischer'Traxler discuss the champagne flute they designed for the brand, which causes bubbles to stream from a small engraved moth. More about Mischer'Traxler's flute for Perrier-Jouët "makes champagne bubble at a certain spot"
Stockholm 2015: furniture giant IKEA has collaborated with London designer Ilse Crawford to launch a range of cork and natural-fibre homeware products. More about IKEA launches "deliberately low key" collection by Ilse Crawford
This labyrinthian theatre set of slatted and solid timber is designed to create an environment for two strangers to act out an improvised performance (+ slideshow). More about TAAT's interactive theatre set is designed to "tickle a higher sense of spatial awareness"
Irish studio NOJI Architects experimented with plywood to create the three different kinds of structure that frame this extension to a terraced house in Dublin. More about Plywood frames create a pattern of triangles inside house extension by NOJI Architects
Stockholm 2015: Oslo designer Andreas Engesvik has expanded his seating collection and added a new table to the range offered by Swedish design brand Fogia (+ slideshow). More about Andreas Engesvik applies simple geometries to Fogia furniture
A bulky concrete wedge creates a plinth for this steel-clad Quebec home by architecture studio Naturehumaine, elevating it above a rocky slope (+ slideshow). More about Quebec residence by Naturehumaine is raised off a slope on a concrete podium
French design student Charline Ronzon-Jaricot has created a "scent vase" that enables users to detect the different notes of a perfume usually only identifiable to experts. More about Ascentium apparatus splits perfume into different notes