Dezeen Showroom: American designer Levi Christiansen journeyed into his childhood dreams to create the tables, seating and shelving in the Shapes from Home collection, which explores otherworldly imagery through woodwork. More about Shapes from Home furniture collection by Levi Christiansen
A curved wooden panel runs throughout this dental practice by Paris-based architecture studio JCPCDR Architecture. More about JCPCDR Architecture uses oak wood throughout Paris Dental Studios
Rio de Janeiro-based firm Bernardes Arquitetura has completed a home topped by a dramatic curved roof that is meant to resemble a bird's wing. More about Bernardes Arquitetura tops Rio de Janeiro villa with wing-shaped roof
British designer Paul Cocksedge has inserted a timber structure of infinite loops into a public square in Kwun Tong, Hong Kong. More about Paul Cocksedge's Time Loop represents ongoing transformation of Hong Kong neighbourhood
A leafy tree rises up through a circular opening in this Brazilian residence and yoga studio, which was designed by the architectural office of Stemmer Rodrigues. More about Stemmer Rodrigues creates Ananda House for yoga teacher in Brazil
OTP Arquitetura has completed a multigenerational house perched on a steep site in Brazil's Mantiqueira mountain range for a couple and their two sons. More about OTP Arquitetura completes mountain home on steep site outside São Paulo
Investigative research organisation Earthsight has released a report that claims the pine found in IKEA's Sundvik children's furniture range comes from trees illegally felled in protected Russian forests. More about IKEA Sundvik furniture allegedly made from illegal Russian wood
Interior architecture studio Emmanuelle Simon used arched shelving coves, sandy tones and rounded furniture in the Liberté bakery in Paris. More about Emmanuelle Simon designs "welcoming" Parisian bakery
Tokyo studio Nikken Sekkei has designed a timber communal building at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games' athletes village, which was built using 40,000 pieces of Japanese wood. More about Olympic Village Plaza built using 40,000 pieces of donated Japanese timber
Brazilian studio Coletivo de Arquitetos has completed a Japanese restaurant in São Paulo's Pinheiros neighbourhood, using traditional wood joinery techniques from Japan. More about Coletivo de Arquitetos takes cues from Japan for São Paulo restaurant Kotori
US studio De Reus Architects has perched this villa on an expanse of solidified lava, offering its residents sweeping views of the leeward side of Hawaii's Big Island. More about Hawaiian villa by De Reus Architects sits atop a crystallised lava flow
Creating furniture from locally sourced wood has allowed Sebastian Cox to make his company and his employees carbon negative, the British designer claims. More about "We are already carbon negative by some long stretch" says furniture maker Sebastian Cox
Canadian firm Michael Green Architecture used materials such as mass plywood panels and cross-laminated timber to construct two mass timber buildings at an Oregon university. More about MGA creates mass timber buildings for forestry college in Oregon
The combination of digital technology and mass timber is revolutionising the way we design and build buildings, according to the panellists of our recent talk with Dassault Systèmes. More about Advances in digital design and mass timber are leading us to "a new Bauhaus"
Klein Dytham Architecture has created a decorative wooden facade featuring a pattern of interlocking three-dimensional blocks that are individually illuminated at night for a Cartier store in Osaka, Japan. More about Klein Dytham Architecture creates intricate wooden shop front for Cartier
Vertical timber battens wrap around this Passivhaus hostel designed by architecture studio Blancodelprim to accommodate pilgrims on the famous route to Santiago de Compostela. More about Pilgrim's House is a timber-clad hostel in the Basque countryside
Dezeen Showroom: Foster + Partners has collaborated with British furniture maker Benchmark to create a trio of carbon-negative chairs using European oak and American walnut. More about OVO Chairs by Foster + Partners for Benchmark
A timber shortage in France has forced prices up as architects struggle to comply with a new environmental law that requires public buildings to be 50 per cent wood. More about French architects face wood shortage with "prices going up every week"
Dezeen Showroom: design studio Brdr Krüger has updated a wooden tray table created in 1963 by Danish architect Hans Bølling. More about Bølling Tray Table by Hans Bølling for Brdr Krüger
The King's Cross outpost of London restaurant BAO features a wood-panelled interior designed by Macaulay Sinclair based on the Western-style cafes of Taiwan and Japan. More about BAO King's Cross pays tribute to Asia's Western-style cafes