Hempcrete and timber were used to create this compact chicken coop in Portugal, designed by local architect Ricardo Leal to demonstrate that "even the most modest structures deserve careful thought". More about Ricardo Leal perches hempcrete chicken coop alongside Portuguese home
London studio Reed Watts has completed a visitor centre for the medieval Ightham Mote manor house in Kent, creating an exposed timber and hempcrete structure that mimics the Grade I-listed building. More about Reed Watts puts contemporary spin on half-timbering for visitor centre in Kent
Hempcrete and timber form the rough-hewn walls of this south London house extension, designed by local studio Nimtim Architects with a focus on low-carbon materials. More about Nimtim Architects creates "textured envelope" for Hemp House extension
Belgian studio Van Laethem Architecten used natural materials including hempcrete and cedar shingles to create this small garden studio for its staff in Alken. More about Van Laethem Architecten uses hempcrete for own garden studio in Belgium
Architecture studio Cairn has used hand-poured hempcrete to form the rough textured walls at House Made by Many Hands, an extension of a Victorian home in east London. More about Cairn uses hand-poured hempcrete for House Made by Many Hands in London
London practice Commonbond Architects has designed and built its own studio at the end of a garden in Abbey Wood using a combination of hempcrete and timber. More about Commonbond Architects self-builds Gardenhide Studio using hempcrete and timber
Brooklyn-based Kaja Kühl has created a pair of guest houses on a farm in upstate New York that utilize prefabricated hempcrete bricks and timber to reduce carbon impact. More about Kaja Kühl adds pair of hempcrete and timber guesthouses to New York farm
Passive cooling techniques in architecture, reflective paint and water-filled windows are featured among the methods that designers and architects are using to mitigate heat in energy-efficient ways. More about Eight projects with integrated cooling techniques that beat the heat
Hempcrete walls and a patchwork facade characterise Hempcrete Mewshouse, a three-storey home that local studio Cathie Curran has added to a derelict site in east London. More about Timber and hempcrete form patchwork facade of London mews house
Hemp is becoming an increasingly popular material among architects seeking to reduce the carbon impact of their projects. Here is a roundup of nine buildings constructed using the versatile cannabis crop. More about Nine buildings constructed using hemp that show the biomaterial's potential
Dutch studio Overtreders W has used hempcrete and reclaimed timber to create a demountable pavilion in Almere, the Netherlands, named The Voice of Urban Nature. More about Pink hempcrete brightens demountable Floriade pavilion by Overtreders W
Paris studio Lemoal Lemoal has used hempcrete blocks to build the Pierre Chevet sports centre in France, which the studio believes is the country's first public building built from the biomaterial. More about Lemoal Lemoal completes first public building in France to be made from hempcrete
Architecture firm Barrault Pressacco used biomaterials including wood and hempcrete to construct this mixed-use building that references traditional Parisian apartment blocks. More about Barrault Pressacco uses hempcrete to create social housing in Paris
This short film shows how hemp was grown on a Cambridgeshire farm and turned into construction materials that sequester carbon. More about See how hemp is cultivated, processed and used to build a house in this movie
London architecture studio Jonathan Tuckey Design is set to add a hempcrete extension to a house in a conservation area in Cambridge, UK. More about Jonathan Tuckey Design to build Hempcrete House in Cambridge
Practice Architecture worked alongside hemp farmers to erect this zero-carbon home in Cambridgeshire, England, from pre-fabricated panels in just two days. More about Hemp is used on interior and exterior of zero-carbon Flat House in Cambridgeshire
Walls made of hemp and lime, and local stone make up this sand-coloured house on a hill in northern Israel, which Haifa-based studio Tav Group designed for environmentally conscious artists. More about Tav Group builds rural artist's house in Israel with "cannabis walls"
A material made by mixing hemp with lime and water forms a new layer of insulation around this house in Belgium, as part of a renovation by Ghent studio Martens Van Caimere Architecten (+ slideshow). More about Hemp-based render gives striated skin to renovated house by Martens Van Caimere
Walls made from a traditional combination of stone and hemp-based plaster contrast with concrete, steel and glass details at this renovated house in the French village of Douvaine (+ slideshow). More about FRAR transforms a dilapidated French house and barn into a holiday home
London architects Riches Hawley Mikhail have completed an affordable, sustainable housing scheme within an existing village in Suffolk, UK. More about Clay Fields by Riches Hawley Mikhail