RED Arquitectos builds Casa Numa from coconut-palm wood
Mexican studio RED Arquitectos has created a screen-wrapped house made almost entirely out of wood from coconut palm trees, which was designed to blend into its surroundings on a small island off the Yucatán Peninsula. More
Polestar unveils electric roadster with personal drone
Electric carmaker Polestar has revealed the O2 roadster concept car that features its own personal drone. More
New concrete vaulted floor suggests path to cutting carbon emissions
A type of flooring that uses 75 per cent less concrete than the current standard has been invented by researchers at the universities of Bath, Cambridge and Dundee, who say it could make a "major difference" to the construction industry's carbon footprint. More
Vulva Spaceship aims to counter prevalence of phallic spacecraft
A German feminist art group has revealed a vulva-shaped spaceship concept, which it is encouraging the European Space Agency to help realise in order to better represent humanity in space and "restore gender equality to the cosmos." More
David Saik gives Emeco a cactus-filled Californian brand home
US furniture brand Emeco has worked with architect David Saik to convert an old sewing factory in Los Angeles into a multipurpose hub and "conversation place" with a cactus growing from the ground indoors. More
MIT engineers invent plastic that is stronger than steel
Massachusetts Institute of Technology chemical engineers have invented a new type of plastic that is twice as strong as steel and could one day be used as a building material. More
Danielle Brustman creates yellow highlights in sunny Melbourne hair salon
Yellow-tinted glass partitions and droplet-shaped mirrors give a unique personality to Australian hair salon Mitch Studio, renovated by interior designer Danielle Brustman. More
Stufish designs "world's largest kaleidoscope" in Saudi Arabia
Stage architecture studio Stufish has built what it says is the world's largest kaleidoscope — a mirrored installation that shows ever-shifting images of Saudi Arabia. More
Reports that Christo and Jeanne-Claude's final project is set to be built "misleading"
The Christo and Jeanne-Claude Foundation has denied reports that the duo's Mastaba project is set to be realised in the UAE as it still doesn't have government authorisation. More
Agrotopia is a giant rooftop greenhouse built atop an existing building
Meta Architectuurbureau and Van Bergen Kolpa Architecten have designed Agrotopia, a greenhouse in Belgium that was added to the roof of an agricultural market to create an urban food production centre. More
Roar to open Meta Space studio to design property in the metaverse
Emirati studio Roar has announced it is expanding its architecture and interior design business to the metaverse, where it has purchased land for its new showroom. More
Transformable flying AirCar awarded airworthiness certificate
A flying car capable of converting from a road to an air vehicle has been granted an airworthiness certification in Slovakia, as its makers eye mass manufacturing. More
Powerhouse Company designs serene mass-timber lecture hall for Tilburg University
Dutch studio Powerhouse Company has unveiled its design for the Netherlands' first mass-timber university building — a square lecture hall that references modernist and monastic architecture. More
Previously unrecycleable clothing made into Fibers Unsorted textile
Design studio Envisions has worked with engineering company Imat-Uve to make a recycled textile from used clothing usually considered unfit for recycling. More
Animated ArchiPaper farmhouse gets built in Poland
BXB Studio has completed a house built of five overlapping barns that was the basis of the dream-like animated short film ArchiPaper. More
Ikeuchi Hiroto sculpts wearable cyberpunk fantasias from gadgets
Overloaded cyberpunk masks, hulking exoskeletons and other imagined wearable tech feature in an exhibition by artist Ikeuchi Hiroto, who mixes pop culture references and model-making. More
Milan's L'Innesto development to provide net-zero social housing
Architecture studio Barreca & La Varra has designed a social housing project for Milan called L'Innesto, which will be carbon-neutral and encourage community self-management through shared spaces. More
Google buys Renzo Piano's Central Saint Giles as London office
Search engine company Google has purchased the Renzo Piano-designed Central Saint Giles development in London for £730 million, as it commits to a future of physical office working. More
Paul Priestman announces departure from PriestmanGoode
Paul Priestman, the chair of design studio PriestmanGoode, has announced he is leaving the company which he co-founded more than three decades ago. More
Hyundai proposes "Mobility of Things" system to add robotic technology to everyday objects
Hyundai has revealed its concept for a system called the "Mobility of Things", which would turn previously inanimate objects into robots and allow people to reconfigure spaces on demand. More