Isabel Ahm's Secretary Desk is designed for working at home
In response to the growing number of people who work at home and a need for increasingly multi-functional spaces, this writing desk was designed to blend into a modern living room. More
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Work out at your desk with Darryl Agawin's Balance Stool
The "wobble seat" of this stool by Canadian designer Darryl Agawin helps the user to exercise their core muscles and work off any extra Christmas weight while sat in the office (+ movie). More
Wave Cabinet by Sebastian Errazuriz opens "like a paper fan"
Design Miami 2014: New York artist and designer Sebastian Errazuriz has added a slatted cabinet that opens in waves to his range of unfurlable furniture. More
Hello Wood builds Budapest Christmas tree from 5000 pieces of firewood
Hungarian architecture studio Hello Wood has created an 11-metre-high Christmas tree for a square in central Budapest from 15,000 kilograms of wooden logs (+ movie). More
Campana brothers cover wooden furniture with doormats
Brazilian designers Fernando and Humberto Campana have chosen a coconut fibre rug commonly used for doormats as the latest material to incorporate into a furniture collection. More
Low-cost house by Enrique Mora Alvarado built using rainforest wood and bamboo
More than 900 bamboo poles were used to construct this home, designed by architect Enrique Mora Alvarado for a site in a remote Ecuadorian rainforest (+ slideshow). More
Olson Kundig Architects based Design Miami lounge on historic lumber yards
Design Miami 2014: Seattle studio Olson Kundig Architects used stacks of timber beams to form the collector's lounge at this year's Design Miami fair (+ interview + slideshow). More
Jochen Specht envelops a 1960s house in a new timber and concrete facade
Architect Jochen Specht has doubled the size of a 1960s house in rural Austria by encasing its stone walls behind a new facade made up of dark timber, concrete and plenty of windows (+ slideshow). More
Garden annex by De Smet Vermeulen sits on the edge of an orchard
Belgian studio De Smet Vermeulen Architecten designed this angular timber-clad cottage to create a music room in the garden of a house it designed over ten years ago near the village of Sint-Martens-Latem (+ slideshow). More
Sand dune-inspired kindergarten completed by Dorte Mandrup beside a Swedish beach
This beachside kindergarten in Sweden was designed by Dorte Mandrup Arkitekter with a jagged timber form, intended to be reminiscent of a sand dune (+ slideshow). More
Softly contoured interiors lend cave-like aesthetic to lakeside cabin
This basalt-clad cabin with a curvaceous wood-panelled interior has been perched by Atelier Oslo on a wooded slope high over a Norwegian lake (+ slideshow). More
Mont-de-Marsan education centre comprises wooden boxes hovering over a forest floor
This row of timber-clad boxes projecting from an artificial grassy slope in France contains the teaching facilities of an apprentice training centre by architects Marjan Hessamfar and Joe Vérons (+ slideshow). More
Adept creates timber-lined music rooms that each suit different instruments
Perforated and panelled woodwork line four acoustic rooms designed by architecture studio Adept for a museum in a former broadcasting house in Copenhagen (+ slideshow). More
Rough-sawn pine used to build low-cost Hostal Ritoque in Chile
Chilean architects Alejandro Soffia and Gabriel Rudolphy were set a strict budget for this seaside guesthouse complex, so they used standard dimensions to get as much value as possible out of their building materials (+ slideshow). More
Forest home by Sanaksenaho Architects features black walls and a bean-shaped roof
Black-painted slats in different widths and thicknesses create uneven ridges on the walls of this lakeside house in a Finnish pine forest (+ slideshow). More
Lakeside sauna by Partisans designed as a cavernous wooden grotto
Behind the burnt-timber exterior of this sauna by Canadian studio Partisans is a cavernous cedar interior that emulates the form of a seaside grotto (+ slideshow). More
Bernardo Bader sources wood from a local forest to build barn-like house in rural Austria
Timber window shutters align with the vertical strips of pale timber that clad this gabled house in the Austrian countryside, by local architects Bernardo Bader Architekten (+ slideshow). More
CEBRA's children's home forms a cluster of archetypal house silhouettes
The fragmented gables that make up this children's centre by Danish studio CEBRA feature matching dormer windows that in some places have been extruded, inverted or turned upside down (+ slideshow). More
Black house by Hammerschmid Pachl Seebacher is raised above a bathing lake
This muddy-toned timber house by Graz-based Hammerschmid Pachl Seebacher Architekten is raised on stilts above a sloping site so that it overlooks a swimming pond (+ slideshow). More
Strips of local spruce clad Haus Feurstein by Innauer‐Matt Architekten
Vertical strips of spruce give a stripy facade to this semi-detached house, completed by Innauer‐Matt Architekten in a hamlet within the forested landscape of Vorarlberg, Austria (+ slideshow). More