Milan 2010: British designer Thomas Heatherwick presented a chair resembling a spinning top at the Salone Internazionale del Mobile in Milan earlier this month. More about Spun Seat by Thomas Heatherwick for Magis
Architects Guillermo Hevia García, José Tomás Rodríguez and Nicolás Urzúa have won a competition to reuse a former prison in Talca, Chile, as a public space and arena. More about Espacio Talca by Guillermo Hevia García, José Tomás Rodríguez and Nicolás Urzúa
Milan 2010: Eindhoven designers Boaz Cohen & Sayaka Yamamoto of BCXSY presented a collection of vessels and a light made up of beaded coils at Spazio Rosana Orlandi in Milan earlier this month. More about Coiled by BCXSY for Editions in Craft
Shanghai Expo 2010: Dezeen reader Chaz Hutton snuck into the Shanghai Expo 2010, due to open this weekend. Here are his photographs of a selection of the pavilions. More about Shanghai Expo 2010 pavilions
Hong Kong designer Michael Young has created a collection of computer bags for Chinese brand Zixag. More about City Series and Studio Line by Michael Young for Zixag
Dezeen promotion: at interiors event Designer Werktag in Munich next month 14 studios will present their work alongside lectures including Bjarke Ingels of Copenhagen and Tristan Kobler of Zurich. More about Bjarke Ingels and Tristan Kobler at Designer Werktag
Designaffairs Studio of Germany have designed a conceptual oxygen inhaler for a future scenario where there's not enough oxygen in the air for humans to survive. More about O3 by Designaffairs Studio
In this Dezeen podcast for the Design Museum architect David Adjaye talks to curator Gemma Curtin about Urban Africa, an exhibition of his photographs on show at the museum in London. More about Dezeen podcast: David Adjaye at the Design Museum
Mexican studio TEN Arquitectos have recently completed a laboratory for studying genomics in Irapuato, Mexico. More about National Laboratory of Genomics by TEN Arquitectos
A ping-pong table divided by a brick wall by Portuguese artist Carlos No is on show at the Raiano Cultural Centre in Idanha-a-Nova, Portugal. More about Intifada by Carlos No
Design Miami/ director Ambra Medda will leave the organisation in June, five years after co-founding the limited-edition design fair. More about Ambra Medda to leave Design Miami/
Milan 2010: London design studio Study O Portable presented a set of bangles made of layers of ceramic resin in Milan earlier this month. More about Baum by Study O Portable
Shanghai Expo 2010: architectural photographer Iñigo Bujedo Aguirre has sent us another update from Shanghai Expo 2010; this time the German Pavilion designed by architects Schmidhuber + Kaindl. More about German Pavilion by Schmidhuber + Kaindl
Industrial designer Yves Béhar of fuseproject has created a range of spectacles that will be distributed free to children in Mexico. More about VerBien by Yves Béhar
Eindhoven graduate Lotte van Wulfften Palthe of Studio lvwp has designed a collection of furniture assembled from objects she's collected over the years, including this lamp with a moustache. More about The Possibilities of Parts by Studio lvwp
Photographer Roland Halbe has sent us his photographs of a holiday home in Spain by Anton García-Abril of Ensamble Studio, cast in the earth and hollowed out by a cow. More about Trufa by Anton García-Abril
An exhibition of new work by Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec has opened at Galerie Kreo in Paris. More about Lianes, Roches, Conques by Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec at Galerie Kreo
Milan 2010: at Eurocucina in Milan earlier this month Italian brand Riva 1920 presented a collection of furniture for a laundry room designed by Terry Dwan in solid cedar to repel moths. More about Laundry Room Collection by Terry Dwan for Riva 1920
Visualisation artist, architect and designer Áron Lõrincz has sent us a short movie that takes a real communist-era tower block in Budapest and imagines it extruded beyond our atmosphere. More about Theoretical Block by Áron Lõrincz
Milan 2010: Slovenian designer Nika Zupanc presented a chair decorated with rose patterns in Milan earlier this month. More about 5 O'Clock Chair by Nika Zupanc for Moooi