Designer Werner Aisslinger has renovated a lakeside hotel in Germany's Sauerland region, adding hydroponics and locally sourced materials including wood and terrazzo to craft interiors informed by the surrounding nature. More about Studio Aisslinger completes "nature-loving" renovation of Hotel Seegarten
Apartment dwellers can enjoy nearly 1.5 metres of indoor veggie patch using the Rotofarm by Bace, a countertop hydroponic garden where plants are rotated to grow more quickly. More about Rotofarm by Bace proposes "rotary hydroponics" as sustainable source of fresh veg
VAC Library by Farming Architects is a large wooden climbing frame that uses solar-powered aquaponics to keep vegetables, koi carp and chickens in Hanoi, Vietnam. More about Climbing-frame library in Vietnam has a thriving aquaponics system
Our latest Dezeen x MINI Living video features a proposal for an office tower that doubles as a vertical farm, by Swedish architecture firm Plantagon. More about Plantagon designs office block containing a 60-metre-high urban farm
Behind the scalloped facade of the Koi Cafe in Hanoi, Farming Architects has created a fish pond, an indoor waterfall and a rooftop vegetable patch that exists in a self sustaining eco-system. More about Hanoi cafe features indoor waterfalls, koi-carp ponds and an aquaponics vegetable patch
IKEA's innovation lab Space10 presented a pop-up farm during this year's London Design Festival, growing tiny greens that were used to prepare 2,000 nutritional salads. More about IKEA lab Space10 creates pop-up hydroponic farm for growing extra-healthy salads
Architecture firm Sasaki has designed a hydroponic vertical farm for Shanghai, where leafy greens will be grown on rotating loops housed in a huge greenhouse. More about Sasaki designs hydroponic vertical farm for Shanghai
A Canadian startup has designed an app-controlled home growing system that is intended to make growing organic food and cannabis easier (+ movie). More about Grobo home gardening system makes growing weed easier
IKEA has launched its new indoor gardening product into stores, bringing home hydroponics to a larger market (+ slideshow). More about IKEA moves into indoor gardening with hydroponic kit
London firm Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners has revealed details of a concept for a bamboo-framed vertical farm that could provide an alternative to traditional land-intensive farming. More about Rogers Stirk Harbour tackles global food crisis with vertical farm concept
World Architecture Festival 2015: architecture firm Spark has unveiled its concept for "the next generation of retirement housing" – a community of homes and health facilities combined with a vertical urban farm (+ slideshow). More about Spark designs model for Asian retirement communities that double as city farms
French architect Jean Nouvel teamed up with botanist Patrick Blanc to create this pair of plant-covered Sydney towers that reflect light into their lower levels with a huge cantilevered panel of mirrors. More about Jean Nouvel's Sydney towers boast vertical gardens and a huge sunlight reflector
French designer Benjamin Graindorge has designed a garden that floats on the surface of a fishtank and uses fish waste as fertiliser. More about Floating Garden by Benjamin Graindorge