Thomas Heatherwick has created South Africa's biggest art museum – by hollowing out the inside of a historic grain silo building. More about Thomas Heatherwick reveals Zeitz MOCAA art galleries carved out of Cape Town grain silo
The living spaces of this seaside house in Cape Town are lined with sliding glass walls that can be pulled aside to connect the interiors with a series of external decks, patios and balconies overlooking the ocean. More about Glazed corners peel back to allow sea breezes into Malan Vorster's Cape Town house
A rooftop swimming pool offers views over Cape Town from this house, which was designed by local studio The Fold Architects with pink-painted walls to offset a verdant vertical garden. More about Pink Cape Town house by The Fold Architects features rooftop pool and vertical garden
The first part of Heatherwick Studio's renovation of a former grain silo building in Cape Town's harbour has been completed, with the opening of a hotel featuring bulging windows. More about Luxury hotel opens inside Heatherwick's converted grain silo in Cape Town
A+Awards: South African studio SAOTA received a 2016 Architizer A+Award for this residence in Cape Town, which enjoys views of the area's dramatic rock formations. More about Mountainside villa by SAOTA frames Cape Town's spectacular scenery
Four cylindrical towers are elevated on stilts to create this retreat in Cape Town, which was designed by local studio Malan Vorster to offer views among the trees. More about Malan Vorster's treehouse-like residence offers views of Cape Town forest
Stone, brick and wood introduce subtle textures to this house near Cape Town, which was designed by architect Jan Sofka to resemble a Japanese home spotted on Dezeen. More about Jan Sofka takes cues from Japanese home for rural residence near Cape Town
Architect Snøhetta has revealed a prototype of an arch in honour of South African anti-apartheid activist Desmond Tutu, which will be built near the National Parliament in Cape Town. More about Snøhetta presents memorial arch to Desmond Tutu at Design Indaba
South African studio Metropolis has completed a concrete pavilion in the grounds of a house in Cape Town, featuring sheltered seating and dining areas with views of nearby Table Mountain (+ slideshow). More about Concrete garden pavilion by Metropolis offers outdoor dining to a Cape Town villa
Design strategy collective Urban-Think Tank has designed and built a prototypical house as part of an initiative to improve housing conditions for slum dwellers in some of the 2700 informal settlements across South Africa (+ movie). More about Urban-Think Tank develops housing prototype for South African slums
A portable router designed to bring constant internet connectivity to tough locations in Sub-Saharan Africa and beyond was presented at the Design Indaba conference in Cape Town this week. More about BRCK portable internet router by Ushahidi "designed to work anywhere"
News: British designer Thomas Heatherwick has unveiled plans to create a new art gallery at the V&A Waterfront museum in Cape Town by hollowing out sections of a grain silo complex. More about Heatherwick unveils gallery inside grain silos for Cape Town's V&A Waterfront
A bright red shipping container at the entrance to the offices of Cape Town branding agency 99c houses a waiting room for visitors. More about 99c offices by Inhouse Brand Architects feature a waiting room inside a shipping container
Dezeen and MINI World Tour: with four cities down and four to go, we're halfway through our Dezeen and MINI World Tour. Before our next stop at London Design Festival in September, here are some movie highlights from our trips to Cape Town, Milan, New York and Berlin. More about Dezeen and MINI World Tour: pit stop
Dezeen and MINI World Tour: in our final movie from Design Indaba in Cape Town, Ben Terrett, head of design at Government Digital Service, explains the design principles behind the new Gov.uk website, which combines all the UK Government's websites into a single site. Update: this interview is featured in Dezeen Book of Interviews, which is on sale now for £12. More about "We're trying to get design out of the way"
Dezeen and MINI World Tour: in our next movie from Design Indaba in Cape Town, designer Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg discusses synthetic biology - a new field of science that could see designers creating artificial lifeforms. More about "We've been designing biology for 10,000 years"
Dezeen and MINI World Tour: Google Creative Lab creative director Alexander Chen explains how he created a digital string you can pluck like a viola and discusses Google Glass and the future of user interface design in this movie we filmed at Design Indaba in Cape Town last month. More about "Digital technology will continue to disappear"
Dezeen and MINI World Tour: in the second part of our interview at Design Indaba in Cape Town, Masashi Kawamura, partner at creative agency PARTY, explains the process behind a television commercial he made featuring dancing sperm. More about "I think we were the first in history to motion-capture our own sperm"
Dezeen and MINI World Tour: in latest video from Design Indaba in Cape Town, Masashi Kawamura of Japanese creative agency PARTY talks about the pop-up 3D photo booth he ran in Tokyo last year. More about "We wanted to bring the family portrait into the next century"
Dezeen and MINI World Tour: recent design graduate Leanie van der Vyver speaks to us about her project Scary Beautiful, a pair of extreme, back-to-front high heels, which she presented at Design Indaba in Cape Town. More about "I wanted to see where sexy ends and grotesque begins"