Pets to receive spa treatments at Gensler-designed JFK animal airport terminal
Gensler has designed a terminal for animals that will contain a "pet resort" offering lodging and spa services at New York's JFK airport (+ slideshow). More
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Bow-wow House by Design Band YOAP is a guesthouse for dog lovers in rural South Korea
This dog-friendly guesthouse and residence in the South Korean province of Chungcheongnam features doors decorated with canine illustrations and a sloping playground overlooking the rural landscape (+ slideshow). More
Zurich Elephant House boasts a domed wooden roof and swimming pools for animals
Swiss firm Markus Schietsch Architekten has completed a new elephant house for a zoo in Zurich featuring an elaborate wooden gridshell roof and a glass-sided swimming pool (+ slideshow). More
Tiny crab faces giant obstacles in Anton Tammi's glitching music video for Bruce Smear
Music: Finnish director Anton Tammi warped imagery of a crab battling metallic fluids and a huge scorpion to create this music video for Bruce Smear's track Pick & Roll. More
Bloodflow of beefed-up bovines harnessed for energy in The Cow of Tomorrow project
Graduate shows 2015: tiny turbines installed in the arteries of genetically modified cows provide a solution to future energy production in this fictional scenario by RCA graduate Paul Gong. More
Timber-framed equestrian centre completed by Castanheira & Bastai in Portugal
Castanheira & Bastai Arquitectos conceived this horse-riding centre in northern Portugal as a group of four connected house-shaped structures with sloping walls and exposed timber frameworks (+ slideshow). More
NEXT Architects' bat-friendly bridge to have winter roosts built into its concrete structure
The Vlotwateringbrug by NEXT Architects will span a river that forms an important natural pathway for the local bat population, and provide shelter for the mammals with a series of covered roosting spots. More
Geneva students make ink from salamanders and electricity from dog poo for Milan show
Milan 2015: a machine that converts dog poo into battery power, fashion accessories laced with catnip and a 3D printer that uses ink made from salamander bacteria are among products designed by students from the HEAD Geneva School of Art and Design. More
Michael Kühnlein builds a timber barn for his herd of pygmy goats
A small wooden shed constructed from stacks of timber planks in a Bavarian field forms a home for a herd of goats owned by German architect Michael Kühnlein (+ slideshow). More
Equestrian centre on Australia's south coast features a curving rammed-earth wall
A curving wall of rammed earth channels a stream of water around the edge of this horse riding centre near Melbourne, by London studio Seth Stein Architects and local firm Watson Architecture + Design (+ slideshow). More
Kathryn Fleming proposes engineering animals to thwart extinction
Design Indaba 2015: designer Kathryn Fleming has presented prototypes for new organisms that could be created using synthetic biology, including a cat-dog hybrid with reflective fur and a tightrope-walking herbivore. More
Massimo Faion's Posa Project reinterprets falconry perches
Italian designer Massimo Faion has created a set of bespoke falconry stands for a live performance at this year's Design Days Dubai fair. More
Happy Chinese New Year from Dezeen!
To celebrate the year of the "yang" – which can be translated as sheep, goat or ram – we've trawled the Dezeen archive to create a slideshow of buildings that have been photographed alongside a horned animal, from a house on a working sheep farm in Tasmania to a modern farmhouse built from shipping containers in Northern Ireland. More
Sheffer Chicken Coop is a metal-clad New York home for eight hens
Asked to design a New York home for chickens rather than people, Architecture Research Office has completed a metal-clad bunker featuring wooden nesting boxes and underfloor heating (+ slideshow). More
Refurbeasts project aims to rehabilitate "taboo" fur coats
Dutch costume designer Lisa Louwers turns unwanted fur coats into soft toys as a tribute to the animals that the material was taken from (+ slideshow). More
Vera Knoot makes leather from unwanted goose skin
Dutch Design Week 2014: School of Arts Utrecht graduate Vera Knoot has developed a new type of leather from the skin of geese culled in the Netherlands due to overpopulation. More
Architects design cat shelters for animal charity fundraiser
A series of cat houses designed by Los Angeles-based architects were created for Architects for Animals "Giving Shelter" fundraiser this month (+ slideshow). More
Studio Job's Pussy Cats sculptures capture aggressive feline behaviour
Belgian artists Studio Job have designed a collection of feline bronze pieces with lights instead of eyes for London's Carpenters Workshop Gallery (+ slideshow). More
Playpen for dogs installed within Soichi Yamasaki's S Residence
The living room of this home in Japan's Hyogo prefecture, by Tokyo architect Soichi Yamasaki, features a dog pen so the owner's pets can be involved in family life without running riot (+ slideshow). More
Monk Mackenzie and Glamuzina Patterson create angular giraffe shelter at Auckland Zoo
The two intersecting roofs of the Giraffe House at Auckland Zoo in New Zealand were designed to comfortably accommodate both its long-necked inhabitants and their human keepers (+ slideshow). More