Clare Cousins Architects creates first carbon-positive home in Australia's Victoria
This timber-clad residence designed by Australian firms Clare Cousins Architects and The Sociable Weaver is the first home in the Australian state of Victoria to achieve a "10 Star" energy rating. More
IKEA lab Space10 creates algae-producing pavilion in Copenhagen
IKEA's external innovation lab Space10 has worked in collaboration with three young architects to create a four-metre-high bioreactor dome for growing microalgae. More
Francisco Sutherland Architects inserts an oak structure into a Barbican flat
Francisco Sutherland Architects has slotted a timber structure containing a bathroom, mezzanine and wardrobes into a triplex apartment in London's brutalist Barbican Estate. More
Residents of Sydney high-rise estate use lights to protest against gentrification
Night after night, the windows of the tower blocks that make up the Waterloo Estate in Sydney have been gradually lit up in different colours as part of a public art project that aims to make the community more visible. More
TNA's dream holiday home is an upside-down concrete pyramid
Takei Nabeshima Architects has released new renderings of its design for an extravagant concrete holiday home, which forms part of French developer Christian Bourdais' Solo Houses series. More
Matchstic reworks Atlanta's zoning signs to make them more readable
Brand identity firm Matchstic has worked with Atlanta's Department of City Planning to redesign its branding and create new zoning signs around the city. More
Hem unveils Chlorophyll and Ink furniture collection inspired by exotic plants and fabrics
Furniture brand Hem has unveiled its 2017/18 collection, which includes new rugs and pouffes with elements borrowed from exotic plants and shimmering fabrics. More
Holiday home by Masato Sekiya cantilevers over a river bank in Nara Prefecture
Masato Sekiya's firm Planet Creations has completed a concrete weekend house, which cantilevers six metres over a rocky ledge in Japan's Omine mountain range. More
Audi set to unveil car with solar roof by end of 2017
German automaker Audi is working with Chinese solar-cell specialist Hanergy to develop thin-film solar cells that can be integrated into the panoramic glass roofs of its cars. More
Isay Weinfeld reveals irregularly stacked tower block for São Paulo
Brazilian architect Isay Weinfeld has designed a tower for São Paulo comprising four irregularly stacked volumes fringed with greenery, which is expected to complete later this year. More
Beech Architects creates guest house inside derelict Suffolk windmill
UK firm Beech Architects has converted a 125-year-old windmill stump in Suffolk, England, into a guest house topped with an elliptical zinc-clad pod. More
World's lightest folding bike goes into production with race-car makers Prodrive
Following a successful Kickstarter campaign, the world's lightest folding bike, by London start-up the Hummingbird Bike Company, has gone into production with British motorsport company Prodrive. More
Ferm Living's autumn winter 2017 collection channels "Nordic decadence"
Danish brand Ferm Living's autumn winter 2017 collection, simply titled The Home, incorporates popular design trends including so-called millennial pink, brass hardware and forms inspired by mid-century furniture. More
Grotesque star of a road-safety campaign is nominated for Designs of the Year award
An interactive lifelike sculpture called Graham, the only "person" on earth designed to withstand a car collision, has been nominated for this year's Designs of the Year awards. More
Jonathan Tuckey slots home and fashion boutique into Knightsbridge mews
A bathroom doubles as a meeting room in this live-work space created by Jonathan Tuckey Design for Egg fashion boutique inside a small mews house in Knightsbridge, London. More
Carlo Ratti to transform Italian military barracks into open-source architecture laboratory
Architect Carlo Ratti has revealed plans to transform a former 19th-century military complex in Turin, Italy, into a campus where students, workers and makers can set up their own labs and studios. More
World's largest bicycle parking garage opens in Utrecht
Ector Hoogstad Architecten has completed the first stage of the world's largest bicycle parking facility, in Utrecht's Central Station area in the Netherlands. More
Cassidy Reid devises Hyperloop network to "make Europe great again"
Bartlett School of Architecture graduate Cassidy Reid has designed a concept for a high-speed transport network based on Hyperloop to create infrastructural and cultural corridors across Europe, and shrink travel time between cities. More
Aurora Arquitectos opens up 1970s apartment in Lisbon with angular skylights and folding walls
A long bright corridor punctuated by three wood-lined skylights spans this apartment in Lisbon, Portugal, which was been refurbished by local office Aurora Arquitectos. More
Scullion Architects adds charred-larch tower to terraced home in Dublin
Located near Dublin's docklands, this three-storey Georgian terraced house has been converted from three bed-sits into one light-filled "upside-down house" with a charred-larch extension at the back. More