This week we reported on the job market for architecture's class of '25

This week on Dezeen, we reported on architecture’s graduating class of 2025, who are set to face the toughest job market in recent decades.

With the UK experiencing its most competitive job market in 30 years, graduates are finding it even harder to land jobs after university – with a reported 140 applications for every graduate vacancy.

We also published an opinion piece by Sana Tabassum on the topic, which explores the need for change at all levels to improve career prospects for architecture graduates.

In other architecture news, Foster + Partners completed its renovation of the Carrington Training Complex for UK football team Manchester United, which included the addition of glazed facades to brighten the interior.

This week also saw sportswear brand Puma unveil a kit for English football team Manchester City, featuring an all-over raindrop graphic that nods to the city’s rainy weather.

We also spoke with leading classical architect Robert Adam about plans set by US president Donald Trump’s to update and extend the White House ballroom.

The plans, which have been designed by James McCrery, were revealed last month and are believed by Adam to be informed by Gilded Age classicism.

In design news, the Chinese division of General Motors unveiled its Buick Electra Orbit concept car, which nods to the 20th-century-space-age.

The concept was designed with the latest electric vehicle technologies and nods to spacecraft, jet aeroplanes and Buick concepts from the 1950s to give the car a retro feel.

Popular projects this week included an Arts and Crafts-style brick extension to a Melbourne home, a home in Kent extended with a light-filled garden pavilion and a concrete housing block finished with colourful details in Switzerland.

Our latest lookbook focused on kitchen interiors complete with elegant and durable marble islands.

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