Dezeen promotion: British set designer Es Devlin has erected a solar-powered pavilion, containing films made at 12 locations in Cape Town, to show people the potential of electric mobility. More about Es Devlin creates pavilion showing films from around Cape Town
The Nova mobile office pod supports the flexible working needs of the modern nomad with fast wifi, a minibar and a daily changing view. More about The Nova pod is a solar-powered co-working office on wheels
South African fashion designer Rich Mnisi named his first leather and steel furniture pieces Nwa-Mulamula after his great-grandmother, the "guardian figure". More about Fashion designer Rich Mnisi creates furniture inspired by his great-grandmother
Local Studio has renovated a 1930s office building in the inner city suburb of Braamfontein to create the 99 Juta Street hub for creatives in Johannesburg, South Africa. More about Local Studio clads 1930s office building in pink and green tiles to create design hub in Johannesburg
Large-scale coloured mirrors recreate the iridescent beauty of Johannesburg's toxic sunsets in this installation by architecture studio Counterspace. More about Folded Skies installation mimics the light created by Johannesburg's mine dust
An old coastal fortification in Cape Town has been transformed into an urban park, skatepark and garden by South African studio DHK. More about Battery Park brings skateboarders to V&A Waterfront in Cape Town
South African architect Nadine Englebrecht has completed an off-grid home featuring a central conservatory in the countryside outside Pretoria. More about Barn-inspired Conservatory House is an off-grid escape on a Pretoria farm
South African design studio Dokter and Misses have created a series of lights reminiscent of surrealist artworks. More about Moonjelly lights by Dokter and Misses look like surrealist melting forms
South African artist-cum-designer Jesse Ede has launched the Orbit light, his latest celestial-inspired collectable design piece. More about Orbit light turns full circle to mimic the movement of moon around a planet
Architecture firms Snøhetta and Local Studio celebrate South African anti-apartheid activist Desmond Tutu with this monumental arch, which was unveiled in downtown Cape Town during this year's Design Indaba. More about Snøhetta and Local Studio build tribute arch to Desmond Tutu in Cape Town
Dutch landscape architect Peter Veenstra has revealed plans to build a plant-covered bamboo sphere in Cape Town's Luthuli Plaza, providing an extra venue for next year's Design Indaba conference. More about Peter Veenstra to build dome of plants at Design Indaba venue in Cape Town
Urban-Think Tank has completed the next phase of its Empower Shack project, bringing safe low-cost housing to residents of South Africa's informal settlements. More about Urban-Think Tank develops low-cost housing for South African slum
Stefan Antoni of South African architecture studio SAOTA has refurbished a modernist villa overlooking Cape Town and reorganised its open interior to make it better suited to contemporary living. More about SAOTA completes "challenging" restoration of Gilbert Colyn's modernist Cape Town home
In an exclusive interview with Dezeen, designer Thomas Heatherwick reveals how he overcame early fears that no one would visit the art galleries in his new Cape Town art museum. More about Thomas Heatherwick: "There was a real worry about whether we could get people to come inside"
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
Sheppard Robson and John Copper Architecture have completed a children's hospital in Johannesburg, which features brick facades and large windows that allow patients to take in the landscaping. More about Nelson Mandela Children's Hospital combines concrete and brick with colourful details and big windows
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