Dezeen and MINI World Tour: in our first Dezeen and MINI World Tour despatch, Ravi Naidoo takes us on a tour of his home city and explains why he founded the Design Indaba conference that is taking place in Cape Town this week. More about Africa today is a place of "renewal, regeneration and growth"
Next week Dezeen will be at the SXSW technology conference in Austin, Texas, as part of Hackney House Austin, a showcase of the most exciting creative and digital companies from the London borough. More about Dezeen at SXSW
More from architect Hironaka Ogawa: the two trees felled to make way for this house extension in Kagawa, Japan, were reinstalled inside the living room (+ slideshow). More about Garden Tree House by Hironaka Ogawa
Milan 2013: London studio PearsonLloyd has designed a range of plastic stacking chairs with colourful metal legs for Danish brand HOWE. More about SixE stacking chairs by PearsonLloyd for HOWE
New York architecture studio WORKac has reorganised the galleries of the Blaffer Art Museum in Houston, Texas, by adding a glazed entrance pavilion in front (+ slideshow). More about Blaffer Art Museum renovation by WORKac
Milan 2013: architect Zaha Hadid has designed a system of twisting auditorium seats for Italian brand Poltrona Frau Contract. More about Array auditorium seats by Zaha Hadid for Poltrona Frau Contract
Here are some images of the competition-winning proposals by Snøhetta, Duncan Lewis and Casson Mann for a visitor complex at the Paleolithic cave paintings in Lascaux, France. More about Lascaux IV: Cave Painting Centre by Snøhetta, Duncan Lewis and Casson Mann
British architect David Chipperfield has completed a new gallery building at the Saint Louis Art Museum in Missouri (+ slideshow). More about Saint Louis Art Museum East Building by David Chipperfield
Flights of stairs in odd places (above), a flat-pack concert hall by Renzo Piano and a hotel in a former prison all feature in this week's Dezeen Mail, along with all the latest news, jobs, competitions and reader comments from Dezeen.
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Opinion: in this week's column, Sam Jacob calls for an end to the "tyranny of fun" in office design. More about "Offices designed as fun palaces are fundamentally sinister"
French designer Philippe Starck and car company Peugeot have unveiled a prototype bicycle crossed with a scooter, designed for a free cycle scheme in Bordeaux, France. More about Pibal bicycle by Philippe Starck and Peugeot
London firm Threefold Architects designed this long gabled artists' studio in Norfolk, UK, so that the owners could construct it themselves (+ slideshow). More about The Long Studio by Threefold Architects
An exhibition of drawings by architect Daniel Libeskind will go on show at the Ermanno Tedeschi Gallery in Rome next month. More about Architectural Drawings by Daniel Libeskind at Ermanno Tedeschi Gallery
The folded tops of these two-legged side tables by Taiwan designer Kenyon Yeh allow them to rest against a wall. More about Kaki side tables by Kenyon Yeh
Columns branch outwards like a grove of trees around the aisle of this wedding chapel in Gunma, Japan, by Tokyo architect Hironaka Ogawa (+ slideshow). More about Forest Chapel by Hironaka Ogawa
An assortment of building typologies appear to be stacked on top of one another at this housing block in Middlesborough, England, by London architects FAT (+ slideshow). More about Community In A Cube by FAT
A nineteenth century prison in the Netherlands has been converted into a boutique hotel where guests sleep in the former cells. More about Het Arresthuis hotel in a former prison by Van der Valk hotels
Walls, shelves and desks are all made from piles of modular blocks at this office in Paris by French studio h2o Architectes (+ slideshow). More about Hypernuit Offices by h2o Architectes
Spanish architects DAHL&GHG designed this house in northern Madrid so that every room faces the garden (+ slideshow). More about Vivienda en la Moraleja by DAHL&GHG
London-based design duo Raw Edges arranged hundreds of fabric ribbons around the edge of their display stand for Danish textile manufacturer Kvadrat at this year's Stockholm Design Week. More about The Picnic by Raw Edges for Kvadrat