On-iku by Earthscape
Landscape designers Earthscape have opened up their studio in Beppu, Japan, to present their experiments with growing native plants in water from local hot springs. More »
Landscape designers Earthscape have opened up their studio in Beppu, Japan, to present their experiments with growing native plants in water from local hot springs. More »
Architects MVRDV have unveiled proposals for a giant greenhouse on the outskirts of Amsterdam with a flower-covered hotel inside. More »
Product designer Samuel Wilkinson has created a miniature garden that works like a living Tamagotchi. More »
Dezeen Space: JAILmake Studio will pack seeds and soil into bricks using their one meter by one metre factory at Dezeen Platform at Dezeen Space today More »

We’ve published a few stories about green walls this week. Here are a few more from the Dezeen archives. See all the stories »

This house near Brussels by architects Samyn and Partners has a glass wall at the front and a plant-covered wall by French botanical artist Patrick Blanc at the back. More »

The chequered facade of this Bangkok showroom by architects Sansiri and landscape architects Shma is half glass and half living plants. More »

Plants adapted to thrive in rocky crevices will take over the facade of this tower for Nantes by French architect Edouard François. More »

Swings serve as shelves in this Tokyo shop by Japanese designer Hiroaki Matsuyama of Minorpoet. More »

Rotterdam studio STAR Strategies + Architecture have photoshopped green walls over images of iconic buildings to poke fun at the way architects believe cladding a building in plants makes it sustainable. More »

Competition: we have teamed up with The Architecture Foundation in London to give away five copies of their book Union Street Urban Orchard, which charts the transformation of a disused London plot into a public garden. More »

London designer Nick Fraser presents these faceted terracotta plant pots at Clerkenwell Design Week in London this week. More »

Dezeen archive: following our story on Offecct’s collection for incorporating plants in design this week here’s a selection of stories from the Dezeen archives featuring plants, flowers and seeds. See all the stories »

Stockholm 2011: designers including Claesson Koivisto Rune, Front, Jean-Marie Massaud and Luca Nichetto presented furniture for incorporating plants into office spaces for Swedish brand Offecct at Stockholm Furniture Fair this month. More »

British digital designer Daniel Brown has created a website for fashion brand Mulberry where users can email a unique image of a flower to their valentine. More »