Graduate shows 2016: the town of Vejle in Denmark is transformed into a pleasure garden in the spirit of Peter Pan's Neverland in this design by Aarhus School of Architecture graduate Marco Maycotte (+ slideshow). More about Marco Maycotte designs pleasure garden to become "the Las Vegas of Scandinavia"
The design features of Indian stepwells and water mazes are combined in this proposal for a landscaped garden by architecture studio Penda (+ slideshow). More about Penda combines stepwells with water mazes for Indian garden design
Dutch landscape firm West 8 has masterplanned a new botanical garden in Houston, Texas, featuring a mosaic of gardens and a bridge incorporating an arch of trees. More about West 8 plans botanical garden for Houston featuring an arching tree bridge
A shadowy room with gabion walls and a suspended canopy made of wooden slats are among the winners of a juried competition to design installations for this year's International Garden Festival, in Quebec, Canada. More about Installations for Quebec garden festival to include stone pavilion and suspended cone
Movie: gallery director Julia Peyton-Jones reflects on the walled garden Peter Zumthor created in 2011 in the next movie of our exclusive video series looking back at the Serpentine Gallery Pavilions. More about Peter Zumthor's Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2011 was a space of "solitude and calm"
Three designers from the Canadian firm Groupe A / Annexe U have erected an orange pavilion within a shallow pool, requiring visitors to don waterproof shoes to explore the structure's interior (+ slideshow). More about Visitors must wear rain boots to explore Get Wet installation at Quebec garden festival
Dutch garden designer Piet Oudolf, known for large public projects like New York's High Line, has completed a project much smaller in scale: a private terrace for an apartment building in the city. More about Piet Oudolf creates rooftop garden for New York condo building
Architect Kengo Kuma has designed an expansion scheme for the Portland Japanese Garden that preserves existing gardens while adding new buildings to the verdant site (+ slideshow). More about Kengo Kuma expansion plan unveiled for Japanese garden in Oregon
World Architecture Festival 2014: Australian landscape architect Perry Lethlean explains the concept behind the Canberra park named World Landscape of the Year 2014 in our next movie from World Architecture Festival. More about Canberra's National Arboretum features "100 forests from around the world"
World Architecture Festival 2014: Australian firm Taylor Cullity Lethlean has won the World Landscape of the Year prize for the second year in a row for the new National Arboretum on the outskirts of the Australian capital, Canberra (+ slideshow). More about World Landscape of the Year 2014 prize goes to Australian garden with a pointed pavilion
This house in Spain by Swiss architect Gus Wüstemann features a largely windowless exterior, but an internal courtyard surrounded by perforated walls ensures that light permeates the building all year round (+ slideshow). More about Perforated walls bring light into the heart of Gus Wüstemann's Los Limoneros house
First the connected home; now the connected garden: designer Yves Behar and entrepreneur Jason Aramburu have created products that monitor soil conditions and automatically water plants when they get thirsty (+ movie). More about Yves Behar moves towards the connected garden with Edyn
Rows of disused railway sleepers slide open to reveal the ground floor of this copper coloured house in Portugal by Atelier Data (+ slideshow). More about Atelier Data combines wood, concrete and cork for Varatojo House facade
This house in London by local studio De Matos Ryan sits within a sunken courtyard, surrounded by a secret flower garden (+ slideshow). More about Sunken house by De Matos Ryan nestles in a secret garden
Project director Paul Baker discusses Wilkinson Eyre's award-winning cooled conservatories at Gardens by the Bay in Singapore in this exclusive video produced by Dezeen for Wilkinson Eyre. More about Wilkinson Eyre's cooled conservatories at Gardens by the Bay are "about having fun"
Dezeen and MINI World Tour: in this exclusive interview with vertical gardens pioneer Patrick Blanc, the French botanist discusses his hanging gardens for Herzog & de Meuron's new Pérez Art Museum in Miami and reflects on why vertical gardens have become so popular. More about Green wall pioneer Patrick Blanc: "Now everybody is doing vertical gardens"
Movie: in our second exclusive interview from this year's World Architecture Festival, Scott Adams of Taylor Cullity Lethlean discusses the design of The Australian Garden, which won the award for best landscape project. More about "This was the first botanical garden purely for Australian native plants"
Movie: Katrin Schön of garden trade fair Spoga+Gafa shows Dezeen around the Garden Unique section of this year's show and discusses the growing trend for outdoor cooking in this movie filmed in Cologne. More about "The current trend is to have an outdoor kitchen"
German designer Gitta Gschwendtner and Brazilian artist Maria Thereza Alves have planted a garden on a derelict barge in Bristol Harbour using the kinds of foreign seeds that were once mixed up in ships' ballast before being dumped in the river (+ slideshow). More about Seeds of Change by Gitta Gschwendtner and Maria Thereza Alves
We've been sent an update from Jardin de la Connaissance, the garden of decaying books in Quebec which we featured back in 2010: the books are now sprouting enormous orange mushrooms, and this year the designers introduced moss. More about Jardin de la Connaissance by Rodney LaTourelle and 100 Landschaftsarchitektur – update