Roles at Yinka Ilori Studio and Aesop now advertising on Dezeen Jobs

We've selected five of the top architecture and design roles on Dezeen Jobs this week including positions at designer Yinka Ilori's studio and skincare brand Aesop.

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Part 1/2 architectural assistant at Yinka Ilori Studio

Designer Yinka Ilori is seeking a Part 1/2 architectural assistant to join his eponymous studio in London. The designer created The Colour Palace, a multi-coloured pavilion shown outside Dulwich Picture Gallery as part of the London Festival of Architecture.

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Store design/project coordinator at Aesop

A central London Aesop store has been designed by film director Luca Guadagnino, featuring geometric floor tiles and marble fixtures. The skincare brand is hiring a store design/project coordinator at its New York office to support retail development across the Americas region.

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Senior visualisation designer at BIG

Danish architecture studio BIG has designed a future city prototype for Japanese car company Toyota, set to be built near Japan's Mount Fuji. The firm is recruiting for a senior visualisation designer to join its visualisation department in Copenhagen, Denmark.

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Mid-weight interior designer at Tom Dixon

Tom Dixon has an opening for a midweight interior designer to develop design concepts at its studio in London. The British designer is releasing a series of furniture made from cork including shelving, seating and tables.

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Mandarin-speaking architects at Superimpose Architecture

Chinese firm Superimpose Architecture has converted a historic factory set to be demolished in China's Changzhi, transforming the site into an exhibition centre. The studio has an opening for Mandarin-speaking architects with a minimum of two years' experience to join its practice in Beijing.

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Tomoaki Uno Architects creates peaceful home to be "healing architecture"

Tomoaki Uno Architects has limited the material palette of this windowless Japanese house to cedar and cypress to offer its sick owner a pared-back and therapeutic home.

Named Ogimachi House, the sky-lit dwelling in Nagoya was commissioned by a young client for his mother, who required a private and calming space to help her recover from a mental illness.

Tomoaki Uno Architects' design is deliberately simple, and built almost entirely from wood in recognition of the material's physical and psychological benefits.

"The choice of materials and finishes was made of natural materials as much as possible, and I aimed for healing architecture in all aspects," said the studio's founder, Tomoaki Uno.

"I believe in the beauty of the ordinary things," he continued. "The most interesting is lurking in the most uninteresting. This architecture was made that way. I tried to fill the maximum function with minimal material."

Ogimachi House is also complete without any windows, and instead relies on 37 skylights for natural light. This was designed by Tomoaki Uno Architects to help retain the owner's privacy from neighbouring houses.

"One of the most important considerations in this home is how it relates to private and social," added Uno.

"Eventually, I proposed a house with no windows on the wall. Instead, I designed 32 fixed skylights and fiv large openable skylights," Uno explained.

"When his mother started living there, I heard she was quite stressed. But I'm relieved to hear she is now very at ease."

Tomoaki Uno Architects chose to build Ogimachi House using cedar and cypress as they are the two most widely distributed woods in Japan.

It has been constructed using a traditional Japanese building method called Itakura, in which thick boards of solid cedar are joined without nails to form roofs, walls and floors.

The technique originated for the construction of kura, otherwise known as storehouses, and is understood to enhance a building's fire resistance according to Uno.

Inside, the house is built around a grid-like structure containing all the living spaces, which is wrapped by a double-height corridor lit by the strips of skylights.

On the ground floor, this grid hosts open-plan living and dining areas, alongside an enclosed bedroom, toilet and wash room.

A central flower-like staircase winds up to the first floor above, where there are four more private rooms, which feature the openable skylights.

Here, there is also a bridge over the ground corridor that leads out onto a linear balcony.

Tomoaki Uno Architects is a Japanese architecture studio founded by Uno in 1990, which is based in Nagoya in the Aichi prefecture. In 2012 the studio completed a dark concrete house lit by two narrow light wells.

Other windowless Japanese houses on Dezeen include Black Box by TakaTin and Kamiuma House by Chop + Archi, which featured in our roundup of 10 bunker-like houses that offer total privacy.

Photography is by Ben Hosking.

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Commune designs gluten-free BreadBlok bakery in California with creamy interiors

Los Angeles studio Commune has used plaster walls, wood built-ins and terracotta tile floors to create a rustic feel inside this bakery in Santa Monica.

BreadBlok is a bakery founded by Chloé Charlier that only serves up gluten-free products.

Commune designed the project with a combination of limestone, plaster, wood and terracotta.

The materials are intended to connect the sunny beachside location with Charlier's Provençal heritage.

"We've selected materials that can be left in their raw state and will age beautifully – warm alder wood for shelves and millwork, terracotta floors, plaster walls and textured limestone counters – equal parts Southern California, and the client's native Provence," Commune said.

"Like the product, the materials are timeless but the details are modern," the studio added.

A focal point of the interiors is a white countertop with glass cases for displaying the baked treats. Chunky limestone plinths support the counter and contrast with the clay tiles below.

A built-in cabinet behind the counter has shelves stocked with bread and a counter below. A series of slender wood rods jut out from the wall for keeping baguettes upright.

The storage volume is made of pale alder wood, a relative of birch from the Pacific Northwest.

Walls are covered in plaster and painted in tonal shades of cream, adding to the rustic aesthetic.

BreadBlok bakery doubles as a coffee shop, and Commune created a wood bench to maximise seating in the rectangular space.

This seating is opposite of the counter and comprises oval tables in dark wood and Last Stools by Hem in polished copper.

Linen pillows decorate the bench as well and metal stools have a soft cushion on top for comfort.

Other custom details are a patchwork tablecloth by textile artist Adam Pogue and handwoven rope baskets by local weaver Dax Savage that hang across the ceiling.

Natural light enters the bakery from two large windows flanking the front door.

Rounding out the project is a kitchen in the rear that is enclosed with frosted glass walls.

Santa Monica is a Californian city west of Downtown Los Angeles. Other new additions to Santa Monica are Santa Monica Proper hotel and Santa Monica College.

Other bakery designs include New York's Bourke Street Bakery by GRT Architects, Flourist in Vancouver and Breadway that features bright pink and blue interiors in Odessa.

Photography is by Laure Joliet.

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Picasso-Inspired Portrait Sculptures Rendered by Digital Artist Omar Aqil

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Pakistan-based art director and illustrator Omar Aqil (previously) continues his Character Illustrations series with more collaged portraits made from stacks of 3D objects. Using digital software including Adobe Photoshop, Cinema 4D, Octane, and Adobe Illustrator, Aqil creates Picasso-esque faces and places them into random, casual scenes.

The shadows, highlights, and colors make Aqil’s rendered sculptures and plinths appear as built-objects in a physical location. Implied facial features give each character a personality that is helped by humorous expressions and mundane scenarios. “Making this series I have explored the new simplicity of shapes and forms to make a character’s inner expression which told the whole story,” Aqil writes on Behance. He adds the while the main sources of inspiration for the experimental project are Picasso’s portraits, the work also is inspired by random situations that he and other designers face.

To see more of Aqil’s portraits, check out the illustrator’s portfolio on Behance and follow him on Instagram.

 

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Stine Aas designs stackable wooden chair Cleo "reminiscent of classical architecture"

This arched wooden chair by Norwegian designer Stine Aas is intended to evoke the details of classical architecture when a number are stacked on top of one another or arranged side by side.

Stine Aas – which designed Cleo for manufacturer Dims., – has created the body of the chair from a single piece of bent laminated plywood that comprises the square-shaped seat and semicircular backrest.

"The backrest is shaped in a perfect semicircle, so that when several chairs are placed in a row, they form a pattern reminiscent of the archways and decorative motifs of classical architecture," Dims., said.

The moulded sheet is fixed to a rectangular base that also forms the front set of legs. The rear legs are attached to the chair's back as part of a rectangular frame.

Cleo is made using FSC-certified ash wood and has a certificate from the Business and Institutional Furniture Manufacturer's Association, BIFMA, meaning it has been tested for qualities such as its safety, durability, emissions and environmentally conscious design.

"Stine wanted the simple chair to be both strong and soft – as a material, wood is visual and tactile, and speaks to humans in an emotional way, allowing for an organic expression through the design," the furniture manufacturer added.

On the bottom of each chair the designer has etched the words "Cleo, Stine Aas" along with the manufacturer "Dims.," and the chair's dimensions.

Cleo is available in three colour options, Natural, Fjord Blue and Tobiko Red. The paint is a non-toxic finish certified by Greenguard Gold, meaning it has been tested for harmful chemical emissions that could affect air quality.

Dims., is a furniture manufacturer that collaborates with designers to produce exclusive designs. In addition to this chair created with Stine Aas, the company has worked with Brooklyn's Ladies & Gentlemen Studio and Toronto's MSDS Studio.

Other simple wooden chairs include Soft Chair by Thomas Bentzen a curved design made with moulded wood and a flat-pack chair that uses FSC wood by PearsonLloyd.

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