Next in our Social Housing Revival series we examine Life Reusing Posidonia – a group of 14 dwellings on the Mediterranean island of Formentera designed by architects at the Balearic Social Housing Institute using locally sourced materials such as dried seagrass. More
Dutch studio AMO emphasised the "paradoxical dichotomy" between office interiors and the natural world for the Prada Autumn Winter 2024 menswear show, which featured a plexiglass runway above grass and streams. More
Biodiversity should be promoted over aesthetics, says designer Sebastian Cox in this interview following the rewilding of a golf course as part of the Birch Selsdon hotel in South Croydon, UK. More
Fashion brand Loewe has released a pair of grassy sneakers covered in shaggy green raffia, an updated version of the grass-covered shoes revealed at its Spring Summer 2023 collection at Paris Fashion Week last year. More
North Carolina firm Plantd Materials has developed a material consisting of processed perennial grasses that it says will be lighter and stronger than traditional timber boards while capturing more carbon.
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Italian design collective Nucleo has tweaked its popular design for a grass armchair that grows over time, relaunching it with a crowdfunding campaign (+ slideshow). More
The hexagonal pyramids on the roof of this museum are now covered in a layer of grass, helping the building settle into its marshland environment in the Netherlands (+ slideshow). More
Italian studio Henry&Co has used a material created by binding hay and grass to form the seat of this untreated beech wood stool. More
Norwegian artist Per Kristian Nygård attempted to bring the outside inside with this installation that involved building grassy mounds inside an Oslo gallery (+ slideshow). More
Fashion brand Topshop presented its Spring Summer 2014 collection on an indoor catwalk covered in real grass (+ slideshow). More
News: London architecture firm Grimshaw has unveiled a masterplan for the home of the annual Wimbledon Championships tennis tournament. More
This spiralling stone house in Vietnam by architect Vo Trong Nghia has grass on its roof and an oval courtyard at its centre (+ slideshow). More
The stone mullions surrounding this visitor centre by Irish firm Heneghan Peng Architects imitate the towering basalt columns of the volcanically formed Giant's Causeway (+ slideshow). More
This desk lamp resembling bent blades of grass is by American designer Victor Vetterlein. More
Concrete wedges project out from the facade of this single-storey residence near Madrid by Spanish architecture studio A-Cero. More
Hong Kong studio Design Systems have completed the renovation of a penthouse apartment in Shenzhen, China, including the addition of an undulating lawn on the terrace. More
German practice Kadawittfeldarchitektur have completed a kindergarten in Sighartstein near Salzburg, Austria, clad with metal elements designed to look like blades of grass. More