At the Design Academy Eindhoven graduate show earlier this month, designer Hung-Pin Hsueh presented a system for using Taiwan Cypress driftwood as an architectural building material. More about Aromatic Fabrication by Hung-Pin Hsueh
American designer Victor Vetterlein has designed Yo, an MP3 player dock with removable stereo speakers. More about YO by Victor Vetterlein
Green design collective [re]design presented a range of sustainable lights from various British designers including Julia Lohmann, Jericho Hands, Rawstudio, bluegreen&co and others at 100% Design in London last month. More about Lighten Up by [re]design
London-based architects Eldridge Smerin have completed a house overlooking a cemetery in London, UK. More about House on Swain’s Lane by Eldridge Smerin
Australian industrial designer Stuart Mcfarlane has designed a chair made by folding recycled plastic. More about Lapel by Stuart Mcfarlane
Today's Independent on Sunday features a list of 20 great green designs selected by Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs from Dezeen's green design category. More about Dezeen's green design selection in the Independent on Sunday
California Academy of Sciences by architects Renzo Piano Building Workshop opened last week in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco. More about California Academy of Sciences by Renzo Piano Building Workshop
Dutch architects MVRDV and Spanish architects GRAS have won a competition to design a new carbon-neutral city in La Rioja, Spain. More about Logroño Montecorvo Eco City by MVRDV and GRAS
Car brand Chrysler have re-designed the GEM Peapod, a battery-powered electric car. More about Peapod electric car by Chrysler
Belgium-based designers Draw Me a Sheep presented chairs and stools upholstered in real tree bark at 100% Design London, which ended yesterday. More about Nature V2.01 by Draw Me a Sheep
Czech architects Ondrej and Josef Chybik have won a competition to design a low-energy timber house.
Tie Fan of WE Design collective presented a conceptual design for an inflatable emergency shelter at the Alan Baxter gallery in London earlier this month. More about SWAS tent by Tie Fan
Norwegian architectural firm Kristin Jarmund Architects have completed a new building for the Norwegian Embassy in Kathmandu, Nepal.
More about Norwegian Embassy in Kathmandu by Kristin Jarmund Architects
Design collective Ten will present a collection of sustainable, wooden products at 100% Design in London next week. More about WOOD by Ten
New Designers 08: graduate designer Laura Cahill presented vases and furniture made from unwanted books at New Designers in London earlier this year. More about Book Vases by Laura Cahill
Harmonia 57 by French-Brazilian architects Triptyque is an office building in São Paulo with a planted facade irrigated by a mist system. More about Harmonia 57 by Triptyque
Architects HOK have released images of their design for a new British Embassy building in Jakarta, Indonesia. More about British Embassy in Jakarta by HOK
Brooklyn architects Solid Objectives - Idenburg Liu (SO-IL) have designed a rooftop landscape of allotments to showcase green roof technologies on an industrial building in Queens, New York City. More about Sunnyside Up by SO-IL
London-based Norwegian designer and illustrator Amy Hunting created the Patchwork furniture series from waste wood and offcuts collected from factories. More about Patchwork by Amy Hunting
New Designers 08: graduate designer Adam Rowe has produced a range of furniture made from oriented strand board (OSB).
More about Victorian Grandfather Chair and Chippendale Writing Desk by Adam Rowe