Dezeen and MINI World Tour: earlier this month we kicked off our Dezeen and MINI World Tour at the Design Indaba conference in Cape Town. Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs rounds up the highlights of the week. More about Dezeen and MINI World Tour at Design Indaba
News: concrete made with unprocessed sea sand has been found in at least 15 buildings under construction in Shenzhen – including what will be China's tallest building when completed – putting them at risk of collapse. More about Corrosive concrete halts construction of China's tallest building
Shimmering steel panels chequer the facade of this office building at an aluminium plant outside Buenos Aires by Argentinean architects Adamo-Faiden and Estudio Silberfaden. More about Industrial Pavilion Hydro Aluminium by Adamo-Faiden and Estudio Silberfaden
Dezeen promotion: the founders of lighting consultancy Light Collective are inviting readers to attend an online seminar about how lighting designers find their inspiration on 26 March. More about Inspired by Light online seminar call for participants
Austrian firm Coop Himmelb(l)au has completed the Dalian International Conference Center, a contorted steel building in China with conference halls bursting through its facade. More about Dalian International Conference Center by Coop Himmelb(l)au
News: a nominee for the Design Museum's Design of the Year award has caused controversy by presenting 3D-printed copies of two of the other finalists' work. More about Design award contender exhibits copies of rivals' objects
Product news: London designer Paul Cocksedge has launched a gadget on Kickstarter that plays music wirelessly through vintage speakers (+ movie). More about The Vamp by Paul Cocksedge
News: American 3D printing company MakerBot has unveiled a prototype of a desktop scanner that will allow users to digitally scan objects they want to replicate with a 3D printer at home. More about MakerBot reveals prototype desktop 3D scanner
Dezeen promotion: Dutch tile company Mosa has launched three ranges of ceramic wall tiles that use graduated colour, contrasting textures and embossed surfaces to modulate light falling across a wall. More about Mosa launches Mosa Murals tile collection
Here are some photos from an exhibition of David Bowie memorabilia that opens this week at London's V&A museum, featuring costumes, album artwork and set designs from his personal archive. More about David Bowie is at the V&A
News: Rem Koolhaas' OMA has been granted planning permission to transform a building on Venice's Grand Canal into a department store and public event space. More about OMA wins planning to convert Venice palazzo into department store
Chunks missing from the sloping roof of this house in Kagawa by Japanese architect Hironaka Ogawa reveal an open-air courtyard at the centre (+ slideshow). More about House in Sanbonmatsu by Hironaka Ogawa
Product news: London print designers Eley Kishimoto teamed up with Icelandic design collective Vík Prjónsdóttir for DesignMarch in Reykjavík last week, where they presented a seal-shaped blanket inspired by an Icelandic folk tale. More about Seal Pelt Remix by Eley Kishimoto and Vík Prjónsdóttir
A towering wall of perforated brickwork lets light filter gently into the rooms of this house, cafe and gallery building in Seoul, South Korea (+ slideshow). More about The West Village Building by Doojin Hwang Architects
Dutch designer Hella Jongerius has created a new cabin interior for Dutch airline KLM, including textiles inspired by the Milky Way and carpets made from recycled uniforms. More about World Business Class cabin by Hella Jongerius for KLM
Design Indaba 2013: Dutch trend forecaster Li Edelkoort curated an exhibition drawing parallels between the Italian Memphis movement of the 1980s and contemporary South African design at Design Indaba Expo in Cape Town earlier this month. More about Totemism: Memphis meets Africa at Design Indaba Expo
An exhibition of projects nominated for Designs of the Year including Zaha Hadid's table inspired by a glacier and a stool made on a fishing trawler (above) opens tomorrow at London's Design Museum. More about Designs of the Year 2013 exhibition at the Design Museum
Rough walls of locally sourced rubble surround this house on the south coast of Ireland by Dublin studio Aughey O'Flaherty Architects (+ slideshow). More about Carnivan House, Fethard on Sea by Aughey O'Flaherty Architects
An undulating canopy of cardboard tubes by American studio Cristina Parreño Architecture and students from MIT hovered over visitors at the ARCOMadrid art fair in Spain last month (+ slideshow). More about Paper Chandeliers by Cristina Parreño Architecture and MIT
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