Flooring manufacturer Forbo has revealed how agricultural waste from cacao production has been repurposed into flooring that supports cacao-growing communities in West Africa in this exclusive video produced by Dezeen. More about Forbo incorporates discarded cocoa shells into Marmoleum flooring
Promotion: Estonian timber supplier Thermory has announced the winners of its annual wooden architecture design awards, including a villa clad with vernacular lace-like timber, and a home influenced by Japanese wabi-sabi principles. More about Thermory Design Awards 2025 winners highlight "enduring beauty of wood"
Insulation panels made using mycelium and a modular timber construction system were used to create PAKK Pavilion, an angular timber structure in Tallinn, developed by materials company Myceen and the architecture department at the Estonian Academy of Arts. More about Mycelium insulates experimental timber pavilion by Myceen and EKA PAKK
Brussels-based architecture duo Brasebin-Terrisse have erected a bus shelter made using waste materials as part of this year's Tallinn Architecture Biennale. More about Tallinn bus shelter "an experimental fragment" built from reclaimed materials
Anhelina L Starkova explains how her experience of living through the Ukraine war has shaped her approach to curating the 2024 Tallinn Architecture Biennale in this interview. More about Trauma of Ukraine war "was crucial for me as an architect" says Tallinn Architecture Biennale curator Anhelina Starkova
Abandoned steelworks buildings will be repurposed into public space as part of Danish studio Cobe's design for a city district in Tallinn, Estonia. More about Cobe set to transform "treasure box" steelworks site into Tallinn neighbourhood
The latest edition of our Dezeen Debate newsletter features a wooden house in Estonia. Subscribe to Dezeen Debate now. More about Dezeen Debate features a "deliciously sophisticated" house in Estonia
Architects Hanna Karits and Mari Hunt used locally sourced wood to create this house in Estonia, which sits on top of a disused cellar in a forest. More about Stone cellar in Estonian forest forms base for wooden Põro House
Architecture studio Arsenit has designed Piil, a modular wood-and-steel holiday home elevated above the ground at the edge of a forest in Estonia. More about Arsenit nestles one-legged "treehouse" in Estonian pine forest
Interior architect Hanna Karits used natural materials throughout this holiday home in Estonia's Moonsund archipelago to create a soothing environment that references the surrounding forest. More about Hanna Karits uses wood to create "airy and spacious" interior for Estonian holiday home
An edible building envelope and curved mycelium bricks feature in the curatorial exhibition at this year's Tallinn Architecture Biennale in Estonia, which explores the future of architecture through the lens of food. More about Tallinn Architecture Biennale exhibition explores "notion of food both literally and metaphorically"
Architectural design studio Iheartblob has revealed the puzzle-like Fungible Non-Fungible Pavilion at the Tallinn Architecture Biennale in Estonia, which was partly designed by the public using NFTs. More about NFT-funded pavilion at Tallinn Architecture Biennale aims to promote decentralisation
Tiered seating and a children's playground both feature on the roof of a new cruise terminal building in the Estonian capital, designed by local studios Salto Architects and Stuudio Tallinn. More about Tallinn Cruise Terminal topped by 850-metre promenade
A €15 billion project to link the capitals of Finland and Estonia via a tunnel beneath the Baltic Sea will create a metropolitan area "much, much better" for tech startups than Silicon Valley, according to CEO Peter Vesterbacka. More about "We're building tunnels not walls" says Angry Birds co-founder behind plan to link Helsinki and Tallinn via undersea tunnel
This wedge-shaped holiday cabin by Estonian architecture office B210 is raised above its boggy site on stilts and features steps that climb over the building to reach a rooftop terrace. More about B210 designs "treehouse-inspired" Maidla Nature Villa to immerse guests in an Estonian bogland
Blocks of limestone are transformed into furniture in this collection by students from the Estonian Academy of Arts. More about Estonian Academy of Arts students create furniture from raw limestone
Zaha Hadid Architects has revealed visuals for a multimodal Ülemiste terminal in Tallinn, Estonia, which will form part of the Rail Baltica high-speed rail network. More about Zaha Hadid Architects unveils plans for high-speed train station in Tallinn
SoomeenHahm Design, Igor Pantic and Fologram have built a twisting pavilion for the 2019 Tallinn Architecture Biennale using augmented reality and old-fashioned woodworking. More about Digital models and augmented reality used to build twisting pavilion in Tallinn
Two gabled cabins with pitch-black exteriors form a holiday house on Matsi Beach in Estonia, built on the remains of a Soviet-era fishing village by architect Hanna Karits. More about Two gabled black cabins form summer retreat on an Estonian beach
The Arvo Pärt Centre, which is dedicated to the Estonian composer, is deep in an pine forest and has no main entrance or exit. More about Arvo Pärt Centre by Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos is surrounded by Estonian forest