Ukrainian designer Oksana Dolgopiatova has transformed the first floor of a historic building in Kyiv, Ukraine, into an office featuring earthy tones and curated artworks aimed at creating a calming atmosphere. More about Oksana Dolgopiatova completes gallery-like lawyer's office in Kyiv
A palette of local clay, sand, hemp and wood was used to create Hedeskov Living Lab, a research and educational centre in Rønde, designed by Danish architecture studio Djernes & Bell. More about Djernes & Bell designs Danish research centre as "living laboratory"
Locally sourced, bio-based materials, including hemp and crushed seashells, feature in Spring Studio's interior for the World Heritage Centre building in Lauwersoog, the Netherlands. More about Spring Studio uses biomaterials to create sustainable interiors for World Heritage Centre Wadden Sea
Architectural studio BLDUS has created a slender home in an urban alleyway called Brown House, which features a rooftop farm and the use of "healthy" building materials such as cork, bamboo and hemp. More about BLDUS creates alley house in Washington DC with cork cladding
Architectural studio CAN has extended a terraced London house with a palette of wood and hemp and a large curved window that aims to redraw its connection to the garden. More about CAN relinks Verdant House with garden using statement green window
Architecture studio State of Kin has paired an olive-toned hemp render with aluminium awnings at Proclamation House, a light-filled family home in Western Australia. More about State of Kin uses hemp render to create family home with "organic feel"
Architect Yussef Agbo-Ola has created a tent-like temple informed by Sharjah's topography and biodiversity as part of the Sharjah Architecture Triennial. More about Yussef Agbo-Ola creates jute and hemp temple for Sharjah Architecture Triennial
Norwegian studio Snøhetta has teamed up with lighting brand Ateljé Lyktan to create Superdupertube, an office lamp made from extruded hemp and sugarcane bioplastic. More about Snøhetta designs compostable hemp light Superdupertube
Plastic-free, fake fur made from nettle, hemp and flax fibres envelops these special edition bags that Danish fashion brand Ganni has unveiled at Copenhagen Fashion Week. More about Ganni makes BioFluff bags from "world's first plant-based fur"
Design duo Foersom & Hiort-Lorenzen has worked with furniture brand Norman Copenhagen on a collection of plant-based chairs, unveiled today as part of Stockholm Design Week. More about Normann Copenhagen launches Mat chairs made from hemp and eelgrass
Design firm Prowl Studio has proven that bioplastic can be load-bearing with the launch of its mono-material Peel Chair, which is made from corn-derived PLA and hemp fibres, at Milan design week. More about Prowl Studio develops "first injection-moulded chair that can be composted"
Hemp is becoming an increasingly popular material among architects seeking to reduce the carbon impact of their projects. Here is a roundup of nine buildings constructed using the versatile cannabis crop. More about Nine buildings constructed using hemp that show the biomaterial's potential
London design studio JamesPlumb blended handwoven bulrush shelves with earthy hemp accents to create the interiors for this Aesop store in Cambridge, which takes cues from the nearby River Cam. More about JamesPlumb fuses bulrush and hemp elements at Cambridge Aesop store
Architecture practice Studio AX has showcased the potential of biomaterials with a timber and hemp pavilion at Chart Art Fair, which is captured in this video created as part of the Dezeen x Chart Art Fair 2022 collaboration. More about Studio AX aims to highlight potential of biomaterials with Danish fairytale-informed pavilion
Irish social enterprise Common Knowledge has teamed up with hemp producer Margent Farm to design a low-carbon micro home that it claims can support people affected by the housing crisis. More about Hemp-clad Tigín Tiny Homes offer a way to "escape the rent trap" says social enterprise
The latest edition of our Dezeen Agenda newsletter features a hemp alternative to steel rebar, which could avoid the problem of corrosion and cut carbon emissions from construction. More about A hemp alternative to steel rebar features in today's Dezeen Agenda newsletter
Researchers at the USA's Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have invented an alternative to steel rebar made from hemp, which they claim avoids the problem of corrosion while cutting carbon emissions from construction. More about Hemp rebar could offer low-cost non-corroding alternative to steel
Dezeen Showroom: made from one of the world's most carbon-sequestering crops, the Hemp fabric by Camira is designed to showcase a rich variation in tone. More about Hemp fabric by Camira
Paris studio Lemoal Lemoal has used hempcrete blocks to build the Pierre Chevet sports centre in France, which the studio believes is the country's first public building built from the biomaterial. More about Lemoal Lemoal completes first public building in France to be made from hempcrete
Architecture firm Barrault Pressacco used biomaterials including wood and hempcrete to construct this mixed-use building that references traditional Parisian apartment blocks. More about Barrault Pressacco uses hempcrete to create social housing in Paris