Francesco Faccin creates "micro architecture" for bees with Honey Factory
This wooden beehive by Italian designer Francesco Faccin has a 4.5-metre chimney to keep its inhabitants away from children and vandals (+ movie). More
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Herzog & de Meuron completes a mountain-top restaurant around a cable car station
Architecture firm Herzog & de Meuron has reframed the cable car station on the top of Switzerland's Chäserrugg mountain by enveloping it within a wooden restaurant building (+ slideshow). More
Sebastian Cox's "urban rustic" kitchen for DeVol features sawn and woven timber
British designer-craftsman Sebastian Cox has designed a kitchen for English brand DeVol that features rough-sawn timber and panels of woven beech. More
Oslo architecture students build a wooden sauna that steps over the Norwegian landscape
Graduate shows 2015: students from the Oslo School of Architecture and Design have designed and built a seaside sauna made up of three wooden bands that stagger up over the rocky terrain (+ slideshow). More
Olson Kundig creates charred wood pavilion for Design Miami/Basel 2015
Design Miami/Basel 2015: a blackened-wood structure by Seattle studio Olson Kundig Architects houses the VIP lounge at this year's Design Miami/Basel fair (+ slideshow). More
Adult education centre with an "amphi-staircase" draws inspiration from Mickey Mouse
An amphitheatre-style staircase forms the heart of this adult learning centre in Denmark, which architecture studio CEBRA said was inspired by the "circles and ovals" of Disney characters like Mickey Mouse (+ slideshow). More
Pascal Smelik's Pixel Cabinet is joined by clusters of wooden cubes
Dutch designer Pascal Smelik haphazardly assembled this storage cabinet using wooden sections connected by groups of small cubes that represent pixels. More
Blackened timber extension by Fraher Architects provides a new kitchen for a keen cook
Strips of black-stained timber give a charred appearance to this extension to a north-west London flat, designed by Fraher Architects to create a bigger kitchen for a client who loves to cook (+ slideshow). More
Faceted waterfront housing in Norway conceived as "a mountain range of wood"
Both the jagged profile of Norway's mountain ranges and the gabled elevations of traditional houses informed this angular housing development in Stavanger (+ slideshow). More
Rural Tasmanian house by Philip M Dingemanse has a terrace piercing its middle
The industrial aesthetic of this metal-clad house in Tasmania is interrupted by a timber-lined hole through its centre that creates sheltered terraces on either side of the kitchen (+ slideshow). More
Alegre Design updates traditional breastfeeding chair with contemporary materials and shapes
Spanish agency Alegre Design has redesigned a rocking chair traditionally used by new mothers to breastfeed and lull their babies to sleep, changing the basic form and adding breathable fabric supports (+ slideshow). More
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
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