This week on Dezeen
US job of the week: senior industrial designer at M.A.C Cosmetics
Nendo creates dining room optical illusion at Japan’s Expo pavilion
Competition: five A+ Awards 2015 annuals to be won
Job of the week: design leader at Martha Schwartz Partners
ÉCAL students take over Appartement N°50 at Le Corbusier’s Cité Radieuse
Paris exhibition aims to illustrate Dieter Rams’ principles of good design
Alpine Barn Apartment by OFIS Arhitekti is a holiday home in a converted cattle shed
“More than just a political system, Europe is a form of modernisation”
Pop-up office created around a tree trunk in London’s Hoxton Square
Tokenlights creates pendant lamps shaped like Japanese fruit
Call for entries to Eleven’s Cambodia architecture competition
Jon McTaggart forms sand bowls using robot-injected resin
“I don’t want to be the lighting guy” says New York designer David Weeks
Ole Scheeren’s Vancouver skyscraper will offer a “new typology for vertical living”
MVRDV’s Zaanstad Cultural Cluster will house five Dutch institutions in one building
Ministry of Design adds contemporary extension to century-old Malaysian heritage building
René van Zuuk creates a wavy pier with an integrated lightbox over an Almere lake
Barber and Osgerby design glass cabinets to showcase their own “quantities of junk”
Annabel Karim Kassar’s telescopic pavilions bring a taste of Lebanon to Milan
Tadao Ando says his first New York building will be “a very quiet piece of architecture”
Dezeen Mail #257
Brick blocks hold separate classrooms at Fonte de Angeão School by Miguel Marcelino