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News: Japanese architect Toyo Ito has been named as the 2013 laureate of the Pritzker Architecture Prize. (more...) View the full article

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...) View the full article

Clean white walls contrast with the stripped-back columns and beams of these offices inside a former factory in Turin (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

London designer Craig Green fashioned masks from splintered planks of wood for his Autumn Winter 2013 collection. (more...) View the full article

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 » See all our archive stories » View the full article

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...) View the full article

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...) View the full article

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...) View the full article

Product news: London architect Zaha Hadid has designed a limited edition of marble tables. (more...) View the full article

News: three residential towers designed by Foster + Partners for a riverside development in central London have been given the go-ahead by Lambeth Council. (more...) View the full article

Our job of the week on Dezeen Jobs is a call for architects at the Paris and Rome offices of Studio Fuksas, the firm behind the fabric-covered Zenith Music Hall in Strasbourg (pictured above). See more stories about Studio Fuksas on Dezeen here. Visit the ad for full details or browse many other architecture and design job opportunities on Dezeen Jobs. View the full article

Product news: the covers of these sofas by Italian industrial designer Giulio Iacchetti look like they're made of crumpled paper (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

News: the under-30s spend more time on the toilet than the over-55s – and they're checking social media rather than reading a book, according to new research on Europe's bathroom habits. (more...) View the full article

Architects Lily Jencks and Nathanael Dorent have teamed up and fitted out a tile showroom in London to look like a psychedelic cartoon (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

South Korean designer Wonmin Park constructed these chairs and tables from slabs of coloured resin (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

A sliding plywood wall divides this OMA-designed art gallery inside a historic building in Hong Kong (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

This is not a distorted digital photo - it's a cabinet that's been intricately carved to look like one. (more...) View the full article

Crazy 3D printing, a new London tower by UNStudio and an apartment with a four-storey slide all feature in this week's issue of Dezeen Mail, along with the latest news, jobs, competitions and reader comments from Dezeen. Read Dezeen Mail issue 143 | Subscribe to Dezeen Mail View the full article

Opinion: in his latest column, Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs discusses why gated communities are "becoming the default setting in towns and cities around the world" and asks whether it matters who owns the land beneath our feet. (more...) View the full article

Product news: what appear to be black lines drawn on a wall are in fact 3D clothes rails designed by Canadian studio +tongtong. (more...) View the full article

London studio David Mikhail Architects has renovated a nineteenth-century house in London and added a glazed kitchen and dining room at the rear (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Competition: we're giving readers the chance to win a pair of portable wireless speakers by Stockholm studio Nocs (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

News: architect David Adjaye has been commissioned to design a fashion hub in Hackney as part of efforts to regenerate the area after the 2011 riots. (more...) View the full article

Dezeen Watch Store: Simply Elegant is the second watch inspired by iconic Swiss railway clocks from Mondaine at Dezeen Watch Store. (more...) View the full article

A rescued stone colonnade stands amongst planes of concrete at this religious shrine in the Spanish countryside by Pamplona studio Otxotorena Arquitectos (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article