INDEX reveals this year's five best life-improving designs
Drones that deliver blood with parachutes and a sustainable ocean farming system are among the winners of the INDEX: Award 2017. More
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Freight Farms allows crops to be grown inside shipping containers
Freight Farms, a startup that has found a way to grow crops inside shipping containers, features in the latest video in our Dezeen x MINI Living series. More
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PIDO's Bike Share Farm is a community garden that can be pedalled from place to place
Beijing architecture firm People's Industrial Design Office has designed a mobile farm that lets the community share responsibility for crops' wellbeing. More
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Bench-top insect farms are intended to make mealworms part of our everyday diet
The world's first edible insect farms have gone into production after a successful Kickstarter campaign by Katharina Unger and her company Livin Farms. More
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Vertical farm designed to produce food amidst Shanghai's skyscrapers
The latest video in our Dezeen x MINI Living Initiative series investigates a design for a hydroponic vertical farm nestled among the skyscrapers of Shanghai. More
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Idee Architects updates house on Vietnamese citrus farm with pavilion-like living space
Idee Architects has modernised a traditional Vietnamese farmhouse for a large family, adding a glass and steel structure that overlooks orchards and the Ba Vì mountain range beyond. More
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Eduardo Souto de Moura transforms Portuguese farming village into luxury retreat
Portuguese architect Eduardo Souto de Moura has helped to revive a former farming village in the Alentejo region as a high-end hotel, featuring whitewashed interiors and original vaulted ceilings. More
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Sculptural extension to French farmhouse protects its interiors from harsh summer sun
Paris studio Dixneufcentquatrevingtsix has completed a concrete extension to a traditional farmhouse in France's Provence region, featuring very few openings in its faceted facades. More
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Superimpose creates ring-shaped pavilion in rural Hangzhou to teach city dwellers about farming
This white circular education centre in western Hangzhou, China, features a decked arena and cosy sleeping areas for children to camp and can learn about sustainable farming. More
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Elliptical cheese factory wraps glazed viewing courtyard
This boutique dairy factory in western Turkey by Slash Architects and Arkizon Architects wraps a glazed courtyard offering visitors glimpses of the cheese production within. More
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David Nossiter Architects transforms brick barn in Suffolk into spacious home
The original brick walls and a high timber-trussed ceiling are left exposed inside this former barn in Suffolk, which has been converted into a contemporary home by David Nossiter Architects. More
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Blackened wood barn by Workshop Architecten houses both livestock and people
Workshop Architecten has created a blackened wood barn for a farm in the Netherlands, which is divided into separate living quarters for sheep and people. More
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Moxon adds red metal and larch extension to farmhouse in Scottish Highlands
British studio Moxon has restored an old granite farmhouse in the Scottish Highlands, and added a larch and metal extension with a matching gabled profile. More
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Jeanne Dekkers Architectuur converts traditional Dutch farm into contemporary house and studio
Architect Jeanne Dekkers has renovated and extended a brick farmhouse in the Dutch village of Banholt, adding contemporary additions clad in horizontal spruce battens that enclose a cobbled courtyard. More
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Organic food plant by Arch Studio references China's hutong housing
This organic food-processing plant in China's Hebei Province has been designed by Beijing practice Arch Studio as a series of individual buildings set around courtyards. More
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Dandelion farm and visitor centre completed by Archihood WXY in South Korea
Dandelions are used to make medicine within this timber and concrete complex that architects office Archihood WXY has built in South Korea (+ movie). More
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Norm Architects completes contemporary farmhouse in the Suffolk countryside
Panoramic glazing frames views of meadows and cornfields from this farmhouse designed by Danish studio Norm Architects for a working farm in southern England (+ slideshow). More
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Lloyd Architects and Louise Hill Design build community-oriented farmhouse in Utah
US firms Lloyd Architects and Louise Hill Design have completed a new barn in Utah for a family that has been farming the same land since the 1800s (+ slideshow). More
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Tadao Ando's Cerro Pelon Ranch for Tom Ford shown in dramatic architectural film
A promotional movie has been released to entice potential buyers for a massive ranch in New Mexico that features buildings by Japanese architect Tadao Ando (+ movie). More
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Turnbull Griffin Haesloop creates white barn-like house on a California ranch
San Francisco studio Turnbull Griffin Haesloop Architects took cues from traditional barns to create this contemporary dwelling in a northern California farming valley (+ slideshow). More