Shelves slide up and down the stem of Yu Ito's Impila lamp
Japanese designer Yu Ito has designed a floor lamp for Italian furniture brand Formabilio with lipped tray-like shelves that move up and down its neck and stack inside the base. More
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Plan Bureau imagines a twin-peaked wooden house in the mountains
A mountain setting prompted the design of this conceptual wooden residence, which features two cuboid volumes rotated at 45 degrees (+ slideshow). More
Timber-clad pavilions by Barkow Leibinger form a campus for a computing thinktank
These four asymmetric wooden pavilions completed by German studio Barkow Leibinger in a Bavarian village accommodate a thinktank for a computing and microelectronics institution (+ slideshow). More
Cox and Bacon build wooden structure with a lower carbon footprint than an iPhone 6
Clerkenwell Design Week 2015: British designer Sebastian Cox has collaborated with sculptor Laura Ellen Bacon to create The Invisible Store of Happiness – a large wooden installation comprising a skeletal frame and intricate ribbon-like swathes. More
AERO designs wooden bicycle frame to explore techniques for architecture
Milan 2015: bike manufacturer AERO created this prototype bicycle frame from layers of birch to test wooden structural techniques that can be applied to architectural projects (+ slideshow). More
Log-clad museum by Bornstein Lyckefors honours the legacy of Finnish slash-and-burn farmers
Bornstein Lyckefors Architects pays tribute to an agricultural technique known as slash-and-burn with this forest museum near Torsby, Sweden, clad with wooden logs (+ slideshow). More
Hiroki Tominaga Atelier uses deconstructed pallets to dress a Tokyo office in planks of timber
Over 100 wooden transport pallets were broken down to create floorboards, wall coverings and furniture for a temporary office space in Tokyo (+ slideshow). More
Jovan Mitrović wraps a glass-walled sports hall in protective timber battens
This underground sports hall for a school in the Serbian town of Obrenovac is topped with a glass box covered in vertical wooden laths to protect it from stray balls (+ slideshow). More
Seungji Mun's Economical Chair is designed to minimise waste
Four of these simple stacking chairs by Korean designer Seungji Mun can be made from a standard sheet of plywood without leaving any material left over. More
Slatted timber screens shade poolside residence in Thailand by Architectkidd
Strips of recycled hardwood enclose the narrow balcony that runs around the edge of this family residence on the outskirts of a fishing village in Thailand (+ slideshow). More
Make Architecture adds perforated wooden facade to renovated and extended Melbourne house
Melbourne studio Make Architecture has renovated a red brick bungalow outside the city, adding an extension featuring a decorative timber facade that references brickwork patterns (+ slideshow). More
House in rural Germany features a slatted wooden facade and copper fittings
Narrow strips of wood screen both walls and windows at this house in Bavaria by Kühnlein Architektur, which comprises a pair of connected sheds (+ slideshow). More
Paolo Carlesso clads Italian family house with cement panels
This family home near Milan features a partially exposed steel and timber frame modelled on the historical rural farm buildings in the surrounding area. More
Raw Edges installs dye-soaked wooden floor across 19th-century sculpture gallery
Curved wooden benches and stools "grow" from a gridded floor of dyed timber installed in the sculpture gallery at English stately home Chatsworth House. 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
Tham & Videgård designs wooden residential towers for Stockholm waterfront
Swedish studio Tham & Videgård Arkitekter has unveiled plans for a row of high-rise apartment blocks constructed from timber that will tower over an old harbour in Stockholm. More
Daast's Big Foot table sits on chubby wooden legs
The Big Foot dining table by Sydney design studio Daast features oversized rounded legs that slot into its slim tabletop. More
David Chipperfield creates simple furniture from wooden planks
Milan 2015: British architect David Chipperfield has designed a solid wood table, bench and stool for German furniture brand e15 (+ slideshow). More
Jaime Hayón designs furniture based on Le Corbusier architecture
Milan 2015: Spanish designer Jaime Hayón has created a range of wooden tables that are shaped to look like the curved structural elements of iconic buildings by Le Corbusier. More
Carved Bowls store small objects in scooped-out sections
Spanish-based designers Kutarq Studio have created a pair of carved bowls based on the shapes left in yoghurt when it is being eaten with a spoon (+ slideshow). More