Benches and mirrors can be pushed, pulled and swivelled from these striped wooden cabinets that Italian architect Benedetta Tagliabue has installed across a palazzo facade for this year's Milan design week. More about Benedetta Tagliabue wraps playful wooden furniture around pillars of 15th-century Milanese auditorium
Dutch collective Envisions has experimented with ways of cutting into, printing on, and transforming materials for its Wood In Process exhibition at Milan design week. More about Envisions' Milan exhibition shows the process instead of the final product
Japanese designer Shigeru Uchida's final work is the Khora furniture collection, created in collaboration with Chinese designer Adrian Cheng and featuring patterns made using traditional joinery. More about Shigeru Uchida's last work to be shown at Milan design week
Architect Snøhetta has revealed a prototype of an arch in honour of South African anti-apartheid activist Desmond Tutu, which will be built near the National Parliament in Cape Town. More about Snøhetta presents memorial arch to Desmond Tutu at Design Indaba
Mexican designer Moisés Hernández' dipped his Immersed Birds collection in dye to emulate the plumage of tropical fauna. More about Moisés Hernández designs minimal dip-dyed versions of tropical birds
Start-up bicycle brand Ono Cycle has released a set of wall mounts that save space by storing and displaying bikes. More about Ono launches range of wooden hooks to display bikes at home
Intersecting wood-clad volumes create a playground for children in a Massachusetts suburb to scurry through, clamber over and zip-wire from. More about Matter Design's architectural play equipment encourages kids to crawl, jump and fly
Israeli designer Bar Gantz has created a collection of furniture by steam-bending wood into twisted shapes. More about Bar Gantz uses steam-bending to create twisted wood furniture
Dutch designer Richard Hutten based the leaf-like form of these wooden stools on the shape of the "lucky" four-leaf clover. More about Richard Hutten designs stackable clover-shaped stools
There is only enough room for one person inside this tall skinny pavilion that Chilean studio Pezo von Ellrichshausen has built in the Jardin des Tuileries in Paris. More about Pezo von Ellrichshausen uses octagonal drums to build skinny tower
Instead of chopping down a tall tree in the middle of a Los Angeles site, American studio Anonymous Architects incorporated it into this cantilevered cedar-clad residence. More about Anonymous Architects builds LA house around existing cypress tree
Short pieces of debarked timber are stacked to form the walls of this remote wilderness retreat, designed for an active family by US studio Andersson-Wise Architects. More about Andersson-Wise creates Montana cabin with cordwood walls and green roof
Timber and glass walls slide along runners to reveal or enclose this gabled garden shed in Eindhoven, designed and built by Caspar Schols as a hobby space for his mother. More about Sliding walls create various layouts inside Garden House by Caspar Schols
Timber joints slot together in these Tetris-like gifs – the work of a young Japanese man so obsessed by joinery techniques he set up a Twitter account dedicated to the cause. More about Hypnotic gifs animate traditional Japanese joinery techniques
Estonian interior architecture students designed this floating timber pavilion to provide a shelter, sauna and campfire for visitors to the Soomaa National Park wetlands during flooding. More about Floating wooden pavilion designed by students to deal with forest flooding in Estonia
A grand window offers views of the woodland and sea in this house in Hanko, Finland, designed by Mer Architects as a contemporary update of the town's historic villas. More about Timber-clad Gamla Villan by Mer Architects offers views of Finnish meadow and sea
A long cypress-clad volume that projects from a hillside in rural Massachusetts forms this home, designed by US studio O'Neill Rose Architects for a nature-loving couple. More about O'Neill Rose creates elongated wooden home in the Berkshires
Zaha Hadid's final furniture collection for London's David Gill Gallery is made of walnut and leather, a reference to vintage furniture from the 50s and 60s. More about Zaha Hadid's final furniture collection for David Gill is based on mid-century design
London Design Festival 2016: Canadian studio UUfie has embedded metal into the growth lines of wood to create a set of textured tables (+ slideshow). More about Studio Uufie captures wood grain in metal for Echo tables
American firm Ward + Blake Architects has completed a residence and guest house in western Wyoming, which features rustic materials and sweeping views of the surrounding mountains (+ slideshow). More about Ward + Blake uses salvaged wood and weathering steel to clad rustic Wyoming house