Costa Rican studio FAMM Arquitectura has created a coastal house that features overhangs and a central brick volume and was designed around preexisting trees on the site in Playa Hermosa, Costa Rica. More about FAMM Arquitectura lets the landscape "speak first" at Costa Rican house
French fashion house Chanel filled Paris's Grand Palais with Alice in Wonderland-style mushrooms and real trees, which created a runway for the brand's Spring Summer 2026 haute couture show. More about Towering mushrooms transform Grand Palais for Chanel couture show
Students from London's Architectural Association have developed a low-cost and easily repeatable way to build with tree forks – a type of timber that is usually discarded as waste even though it is unusually strong. More about AA Design & Make students devise simple way to build with tree forks
To mark the beginning of harvest festival season in many parts of the world, we've rounded up nine examples of residential architecture that prioritise food production. More about Nine homes designed around growing food for a good life
New York design studio Earth to People has swapped synthetic glue for tree sap to bind its debut furniture collection, which features monolithic chairs hand-crafted from centuries-old cedar. More about Earth to People binds timber furniture with tree sap
Spanish designer Jorge Penadés has unveiled a Madrid Design Festival exhibition showing how the discarded roots of olive trees could be turned into design objects. More about Jorge Penadés shows new uses for olive tree roots in Uprooted exhibition
Belgian design firm Studio Part has developed a demountable metal mould that encourages young willow trees to grow into a self-supporting bench. More about Reusable formwork by Studio Part moulds trees into living bench
Danish firm Natural Material Studio has created four biomaterials out of sawdust salvaged from the sawmill of flooring manufacturer Dinesen to explore the potential of using wood waste to make building materials. More about Natural Material Studio turns wood offcuts into biomaterials to "utilise the whole tree"
Reaching up to two and a half metres in height, these cabinets on show at the Collect craft fair in London were created by Ivorian designer Jean Servais Somian to showcase the natural beauty of coconut wood. More about Jean Servais Somian carves fallen coconut trees into towering cabinets
Careful stitches mend the cracks in these vessels that woodturning studio Ash & Plumb has created for London's Collect craft fair from an oak tree felled by lightning. More about Ash & Plumb forms 14 objects from single lightning-struck oak
Birds, butterflies and trees are considered co-owners of Labri, a glass house in Vietnam designed by local studio Nguyen Khai Architects & Associates. More about Labri house offers shelter for humans and "botanic friends" in Vietnam
Oakland-based landscape office Hood Design Studio has created two "treehouses" covered by an expansive photovoltaic trellis on the campus of a software company in Silicon Valley. More about Tree-like trellis with photovoltaic panels covers outdoor workspace in Silicon Valley
Design practice EcoLogicStudio has turned algae into a biodegradable biopolymer, from which it has "grown" a 3D-printed, 10-metre-tall tree that carries out photosynthesis. More about EcoLogicStudio turns algae into air-purifying biopolymer "tree"
Paritzki & Liani Architects has completed a pair of apartments in central Tel Aviv which are organised around a mini courtyard filled with trees. More about Trees grow through glazed facade of Tel Aviv homes by Paritzki & Liani
Angled glass walls frame close-up views of a mature tree at the centre of the Chestnut House in Vale Flor, Portugal, designed by local architect João Mendes Ribeiro. More about João Mendes Ribeiro creates "elegant shelter" around a chestnut tree
Architect Alexander Symes has added an angular addition to a house in Unanderra, Australia, featuring wood-lined living spaces that open onto a terrace perched in the canopy of a large tree. More about Alexander Symes arranges Pepper Tree Passive House around existing tree
In the face of climate change, Britain's lawned parks should be replaced with urban forests to help control city temperatures and keep green spaces green during hot summers, writes Phineas Harper. More about "Grassy parks are no longer viable in the face of global heating"
Expansive triple-height windows and fully grown trees feature in this eatery at the top of a Mexico City skyscraper, designed by local firm Sordo Madaleno Arquitectos to create the impression of dining in a traditional Mexican courtyard. More about Sordo Madaleno Arquitectos creates alfresco feeling inside Mexico City skyscraper restaurant
Ninety-five pine trees that retain their branches support the roof of Little Finlandia, an events centre in Helsinki designed by recently graduated architect Jaakko Torvinen. More about Little Finlandia in Helsinki is a modular conference venue held up by pine trees
Mexican studio MCxA Group took cues from a forested setting and an archaeological site to create a holiday home with "labyrinthine spaces" and a strong connection to the outdoors. More about MCxA Group arranges Casa Mague in Mexico around existing trees