One of the main trends at this year's Stockholm Furniture Fair was the use of pine, with designers using heat-treated pine for outdoor furniture, creating lighting from pine veneer and reevaluating waterlogged pine. More about Pine makes comeback at Stockholm Furniture Fair as designers embrace "underdog" wood
Architectural studio Worrell Yeung has completed a two-storey, black-coloured home extension called Springs Artist Studio that is meant to offer the "experience of being perched in the trees". More about Hamptons artist studio by Worrell Yeung is tucked among the trees
Chilean studio WMR Arquitectos has balanced a slanted wooden house with open interiors on a hillside overlooking the sea in Matanzas, Chile. More about WMR Arquitectos runs wood-framed house down a Chilean cliffside
This pine-clad home on a forested hillside was designed by US studio Robert Young Architects to provide immersive views of nature and to offer "a sense of optimism" for a family experiencing loss. More about Robert Young Architects designs Virginia Treehouse around a family's experience of loss
Chunky misshapen stools and a lampshade made of wood shavings feature in this hand-carved timber furniture collection by emerging designer Didi Ng Wing Yin, which is on display at Helsinki Design Week. More about Didi Ng Wing Yin presents "down to earth" timber furniture at Helsinki Design Week
Gardeners House is a blue-stained timber and terracotta-brick structure in a park in Geneva, designed by architecture studio Cabinet to provide workshops for gardeners and leisure space for locals. More about Blue-timber gardeners' workshop topped with illuminating lantern
Finnish brand Vaarnii has displayed its collection of wooden furniture alongside sculptural designs at the Tableau gallery during the annual 3 Days of Design festival in Copenhagen. More about Vaarnii presents "brutal and sophisticated" wooden furniture at 3 Days of Design
Earthen walls blend with a desert landscape at the Cabo Sports Complex, which was designed by Mexican firm Taller Héctor Barroso to host the region's annual tennis tournament. More about Taller Héctor Barroso uses rammed earth to create Mexican tennis venue
New York City-based firm Studio MM Architect has completed a Corten steel-wrapped house with a dogtrot-style breezeway that connects to a home studio in North Branch, New York. More about Studio MM wraps rural New York home in Corten steel
Izquierdo Lehmann has designed a round lakeside house near Lago Ranco in southern Chile that is wrapped in glass with a series of wood-clad boxes projecting from its sides. More about Izquierdo Lehmann cantilevers boxes from cylindrical glass Chilean house
A steep, pine-clad roof shelters this simple timber cabin in the Swedish mountains, designed by London-based architect Tina Bergman. More about Tina Bergman completes timber-lined cabin in Swedish forest
Large expanses of glass feature in a multi-generational community centre designed by architecture firm Perkins&Will for a neglected neighbourhood in Dallas, Texas. More about Perkins&Will completes Singing Hills recreation facility in Dallas
Students in grade three and four at New York's Trinity School have created a collection of wooden chairs that express their individual personalities, in a module run by art educator Bruce Edelstein. More about Kids' creativity unleashed in hands-on chair design project
Spanish architecture studio Takk has pulled back the walls of an apartment in Madrid to create an outdoor terrace alongside an insulated space that contains a bedroom on stilts. More about Takk perches communal bedroom on stilts in Madrid apartment renovation
Hacker Architects has renovated a 1970s house in central Oregon, removing walls to create a more spacious layout and preserving original design features that lend the home a "retro spirit". More about Hacker Architects overhauls Oregon residence with colourful interiors and natural pine finishes
A towering, floor-to-ceiling bookshelf made from 100 pieces of CNC-cut pine creeps up one side of this writer's cabin in the north of Madrid by Mudd Architects. More about Mudd Architects snakes wavy bookshelf up to roof of Spanish writer's cabin
Investigative research organisation Earthsight has released a report that claims the pine found in IKEA's Sundvik children's furniture range comes from trees illegally felled in protected Russian forests. More about IKEA Sundvik furniture allegedly made from illegal Russian wood
Design studio Superflux has set up hundreds of trees damaged by forest fires around an oasis of living plants for an installation called Invocation for Hope at the Museum of Applied Arts in Vienna. More about Superflux creates forest of over 400 fire-blackened pine trees at Vienna Biennale
Danish architecture studio EFFEKT has planted hundreds of pine seedlings around seven architectural models at the Venice Architecture Biennale using a hydroponics system that's remote-controlled from Copenhagen. More about EFFEKT plants 1,200 trees to grow during the Venice Architecture Biennale
American architects Paul Andersen and Paul Preissner have built a four-storey pine frame in front of the US pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale. More about Wooden frame built in front of US pavilion at Venice Architecture Biennale