Melbourne interior design studio The Stella Collective has paired lush green foliage with stark white walls for this cafe in Brighton, UK, which is designed to feel like a jungle. More about Stella Collective "brings the outside in" for seaside cafe interior
Dutch designer Ermi van Oers has created a lamp that uses a living plant to generate its own electricity – and plans to scale up the technology to power entire smart cities. More about Living Light is an off-grid lamp powered by photosynthesis
Vo Trong Nghia Architects has completed an office building at Hanoi's FPT University, featuring gridded facades that incorporate recessed windows shaded by trees. More about Vo Trong Nghia incorporates trees into chequerboard facade of Hanoi university building
Four months after MVRDV revealed its plant-covered walkway on a former elevated highway in Seoul, photographer Jim Stephenson visited the project to see how it is settling into the city. More about MVRDV's "Seoul High Line" captured in new photographs
This family house in Japan's Shiga prefecture was designed by local studio Hearth Architects around an indoor garden, which is planted with a tree that extends towards a skylight. More about Hearth Architects completes family house in Shiga with tree-planted atrium
Los Angeles-based artist Francois Perrin has created a set of structures designed for keeping cool in our warming climate, and hoisted them above the palms at Chicago's Garfield Park Conservatory. More about Francois Perrin installs cooling Air Houses in Chicago conservatory
Planting boxes can be bolted together to create mini gardens and farms, with this simple construction system devised by Danish architects Sine Lindholm and Mads-Ulrik Husum. More about Growmore is a modular building kit for urban gardeners
Big shelves create places for displaying pot plants on the facade of this house that DANstudio has completed on the outskirts of the Vietnamese capital. More about DANstudio adds "green balconies" to facade of Hanoi townhouse
The owner of this terrarium store in south London used an image she chanced across on Instagram to inform the interior's bright colour palette. More about Instagram photo inspires brightly hued terrarium shop in London
Thomas Heatherwick's studio has revealed its own video and photographs of its tree-covered development in Shanghai, following the release of drone footage earlier this week. More about Heatherwick Studio releases new video of 1000 Trees under construction in Shanghai
Beijing architecture firm People's Industrial Design Office has designed a mobile farm that lets the community share responsibility for crops' wellbeing. More about PIDO's Bike Share Farm is a community garden that can be pedalled from place to place
An opening in the roof sheds light on this concrete-lined boutique in São Paulo, which Brazilian studio Vão Arquitetura has designed around a lush indoor garden. More about Vão Arquitetura organises São Paulo boutique around indoor garden
Royal College of Art graduate Pratik Ghosh has designed a home filtration system that's powered by herbs and purifies waste water from the kitchen. More about Drop by Drop is a plant-based water filter that works as a mini Amazon
This connected plant pot designed by Royal College of Art graduate Jen-Hsien Chiu feeds or starves a plant depending on its user's behaviour. More about Phabit device rewards your daily exercise by keeping a plant alive
Italian architect Stefano Boeri has unveiled plans for a city near China's Liuzhou, featuring towers completely covered in trees and plants to combat air pollution. More about Stefano Boeri designs "vertical forest" city to eat up China's smog
Influenced by Herzog & de Meuron's recently completed leafy tower in Beirut, our featured Pinterest board this week is sowed with plant-covered buildings from around the world. It includes Studio 102's verdant office and showroom in Hanoi and a green Parisian apartment tower by Maison Edouard François. Follow Dezeen on Pinterest ›
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Staggered floor plates and set-back glazing create large planted terraces around this 119-metre tower by Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron, which overlooks Beirut's marina. More about Herzog & de Meuron uses staggered floors to create plant-covered terraces at Beirut tower
Potted plants and herbs clip onto a gridded metal structure inside this London cafe by local architects Neiheiser Argyros, which also features exposed ductwork and cork-panelled walls. More about Pot plants cover trellis-like walls inside London cafe by Neiheiser Argyros
Italian architect Stefano Boeri has unveiled plans for a "vertical forest" in China, a pair of towers covered with trees and trailing plants in the centre of Nanjing. More about Stefano Boeri reveals plans for tree-covered towers in Nanjing
Bangkok studio Atelier 2+'s Greenhouse Mini is designed to encourage owners to bring greenery into their houses. More about Atelier 2+ designs miniature greenhouse for indoor gardeners