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Paris architects Mikou Design Studio have won a competition to design a zero-energy school and sports complex for Saint Ouen in France. More »

Cologne 2010: Italian designer Matteo Thun presented a table made of disused Venetian mooring posts at imm cologne last week. More »

Designers Victor Massip and Laurent Lebot of Faltazi have designed a conceptual system where water is recycled and waste is broken down by worms inside the kitchen.  More »

Oslo studio Various Architects and Pollen Architecture of Austin, Texas, have designed a green office building in response to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) held in Copenhagen earlier this month. More »

London designer Thomas Heatherwick has designed a biomass power station for the bank of the river Tees in the UK. More »

Tom Kundig of Seattle studio Olson Sundberg Kundig Allen Architects has designed an extension to a steel pipe factory that uses giant pipes as architectural elements. More »

Danish architects MAPT have designed a pavilion in Copenhagen made of recycled materials, including old shipping containers, to coincide with the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). More »

Danish architects C. F. Møller have completed a kindergarten in Odense, Denmark, where children can clamber around the building over large ramps and apertures in interior walls. More »

Seoul design studio Unplug Design have designed an aid package that can be made into a football by children in developing countries.  More »

Swedish design group Muungano have created a set of containers for collecting household recycling. More »

Artist Alfio Bonanno and architect Christophe Cornubert will present an installation representing a metric ton of carbon dioxide in Copenhagen next month, while the city hosts the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). More »

French architects Air have completed a raw yellow concrete extension to an apprenticeship college in Saint Maur des Fossés near Paris in France. More »

London architect Foster + Partners have completed an academy clad in wood in Berkshire, UK. More »

Tokyo architects Atelier Tekuto have completed a prefabricated aluminium house in Kanazawa, Japan. More »

More from Alexa Lixfeld: the Hamburg designer has collaborated with Sri Lankan company Selyn to create a range of dolls adapted from drawings by children. More »