Design Indaba 2013: South African designers presented a wide range of pieces made from metals at this exhibition in Cape Town during Design Indaba earlier this month (+ slideshow). More about Heavy Metal at the Woodstock Foundry
Competition: we’ve teamed up with publisher Wiley to give away five copies of their new book Inside Smartgeometry, about advances in parametric design. More about Competition: five copies of Inside Smartgeometry to be won
Czech architecture studio Atelier Hoffman has converted a riverside coal mill near Prague into a studio, workshop and exhibition space (+ slideshow). More about Coal Mill by Atelier Hoffman
GMP Architekten has won a competition to design a 1.2 million-square-metre exhibition centre for Tianjin, China (+ slideshow). More about National Convention and Exhibition Centre, Tianjin by GMP Architekten
News: graphic designer Thomas Widdershoven of Amsterdam studio Thonik has been appointed creative director of Design Academy Eindhoven after a turbulent period for the Dutch institution. More about New Design Academy Eindhoven creative director announced
A house-shaped white box seems to float above the dark grey reception of this dental clinic in Porto by Portugese architect Paulo Merlini (+ slideshow). More about Dental Clinic in Porto by Paulo Merlini
Slideshow feature: here is a selection of key buildings by Japanese architect Toyo Ito, who was announced as 2013 Pritzker Prize winner yesterday. More about Key projects by Toyo Ito
News: a Utah congressman has launched an attempt to scrap architect Frank Gehry's proposed Washington D.C. memorial honouring President Dwight D. Eisenhower, citing the project's cost and controversial design. More about US lawmakers move to scrap Gehry's Eisenhower memorial
Product news: Italian designer Michele Daneluzzo took inspiration from tools used by early humans when designing this stainless steel knife (+ slideshow). More about Primitive knife by Michele Daneluzzo for Del Ben
Canadian architect Henri Cleinge built a house for himself in Montreal with concrete walls inside and out. More about La Maison Beaumont by Henri Cleinge Architecte
Designers Kyuhyung Cho and Hironori Tsukue have created tables and chairs that clip together to form an assortment of shelving units. More about Oneness by Kyuhyung Cho and Hironori Tsukue
News: Japanese architect Toyo Ito has been named as the 2013 laureate of the Pritzker Architecture Prize. More about Toyo Ito wins Pritzker Prize 2013
Sliding back the glazed facade allows the upper storey to hang over the open living space of this house in Brittany by French firm Lode Architecture (+ slideshow). More about D House by Lode Architecture
Clean white walls contrast with the stripped-back columns and beams of these offices inside a former factory in Turin (+ slideshow). More about Sempla offices by DAP Studio
London designer Craig Green fashioned masks from splintered planks of wood for his Autumn Winter 2013 collection. More about Autumn Winter 2013 collection by Craig Green
Dezeen archive: afraid of going to the dentist? Visiting one of these designer surgeries might help lessen the pain. See all our stories about dentists »
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Dezeen and MINI World Tour: with Cape Town serving as World Design Capital in 2014, we spoke to programme director Richard Perez about how the title can help the city overcome problems inherited from the Apartheid regime. More about "Segregation was a design exercise during Apartheid"
Interview: struggling smartphone maker BlackBerry hopes to wrestle back lost market share with a new touchscreen keyboard that will eradicate the "embarrassing" mistakes common on rival smartphones. "Sometimes it's kind of scary when you get your own emails back and you read them," said BlackBerry's head of design Todd Wood. More about BlackBerry aims to end "hilarious misspelled messages"
Additive manufacturing got weird this week, with a pavilion-printing robot that behaves like a silk worm and some 3D-printing spider robots using microwaves, solar energy and lunar dust to build on the moon. Read on for our Dezeen Music Project track of the week and other highlights. More about This week on Dezeen
Milan 2013: London architect Zaha Hadid has designed a limited edition of marble tables. More about Tables by Zaha Hadid for Citco