This week's job of the week on Dezeen Jobs is a position for an interior designer at the Vitra Campus in Weil am Rhein, Germany, which includes the five-storey VitraHaus showroom designed by Herzog & de Meuron (pictured). Visit the ad for full details or browse other architecture and design opportunities on Dezeen Jobs.
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News: British writer and editor Joseph Grima will curate the cultural programme at this year's Biennale Interieur in Kortrijk, Belgium. More about Joseph Grima to curate Biennale Interieur 2014
BE OPEN Made In... India: Indian handicrafts and contemporary design will be displayed in a space built by local stonecutters (pictured) at an exhibition organised by creative think tank BE OPEN, which opens in New Delhi on 10 February. More about BE OPEN's Made In... India: Samskara exhibition will focus on the future of craft
Sheets of translucent black material separate areas of this Aesop skincare store in Kyoto by Japanese studio Simplicity (+ slideshow). More about Translucent fabric divides Aesop store in Kyoto by Simplicity
A series of pillars raise the interconnected rooms of this house by Benjamin Garcia Saxe Architecture above the tree tops of the surrounding Costa Rican forest (+ slideshow). More about Casa Flotanta by Benjamin Garcia Saxe Architecture is raised above a forest
German brand e15 has launched a collection of wood and marble home accessories (+ slideshow). More about e15 unveils wood and marble home accessories collection
Ornamental doors and windows sit within recesses that appear to have been carved away from the coarse granite walls of this mausoleum in Minneapolis by American architecture firm HGA (+ slideshow). More about Garden Mausoleum by HGA features rough granite, white marble and gleaming onyx
Seattle studio Olson Kundig Architects has produced visualisations imagining the fictional scenes before and after a freight train carrying toxic chemicals haphazardly plunged into a lake where artist Jack Daws was building a house on stilts (+ slideshow). More about Olson Kundig and Jack Daws imagine a house on stilts above a polluted lake
Opinion: Kieran Long responds to the recent closure of ten London fire stations, arguing that architecture built for a specific purpose and location is far more valuable to a city's sense of place than generic, pragmatic solutions. More about "London's fire station closures represent the inevitable carelessness of contemporary cities"
Dezeen Mail issue 187 includes the Google Glass collection of spectacles and sunglasses, a house with glass floors instead of windows (pictured) plus the latest news, jobs and reader comments from Dezeen.
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News: Swiss firm Harry Gugger Studio and Boston office over,under have teamed up to design Central America's largest museum of Mayan history and culture for a site in Guatemala City. More about Central America's largest museum of Mayan culture to be built in Guatemala
The faceted forms of these 3D-printed wireframe bowls and vessels by French designer Michaël Malapert are inspired by the Japanese art of origami. More about Dark Side collection of 3D printed vessels by Michaël Malapert
A curving timber-clad wall divides the work space from a multipurpose meeting room at the offices of domohomo architects in Santiago de Compostela, Spain. More about Architecture studio with a bulging wall by domohomo architects
Spanish architects Josemaria de Churtichaga and Cayetana de la Quadra-Salcedo have built themselves a rural retreat with wooden walls, projecting terraces, and a brilliant yellow door and chimney (+ slideshow). More about Churtichaga + Quadra-Salcedo built their Four Seasons House in an idyllic meadow
Stockholm 2014: the wooden base of this sofa by Swedish firm Note Design Studio extends outwards to become a side table. More about Side table extends from base of Rise sofa by Note Design Studio
Toshiharu Naka of Tokyo-based Naka Studio added an asymmetric roof with overhanging eaves to this house in a Japanese skiing village to create a huge sheltered terrace for residents (+ slideshow). More about Cedar-clad villa by Naka Studio shelters a huge terrace beneath its roof
Students from Łódź University of Technology in Poland built this delicate stacked sculpture to demonstrate the structural properties of curve-folded paper. More about Fragile Beasts sculpture made from paper by Łódź University of Technology students
Dezeen and MINI World Tour: in this movie filmed at Dutch Design Week in Eindhoven, artist Gijs van Bon shows us his machine called Skryf, which prints a trail of sand behind it to form letters on the ground. More about Gijs van Bon's Skryf machine "writes poems on the ground with sand"
Maison&Objet 2014: Catalan designer Eugeni Quitllet has taken the silhouettes of famous modernist chairs and amalgamated them into the back of this bar stool. More about Famous modernist chair shapes merged into a bar stool by Eugeni Quitllet
News: Danish design brand Carl Hansen & Søn has changed its logo back to one originally created by legendary furniture designer Hans J. Wegner in 1950, in honour of the 100th anniversary of his birth. More about Carl Hansen & Son adopts logo designed by Hans J. Wegner in 1950