Anonymous London design duo City Girls creates one-off lighting out of reclaimed lace, coat hangers and scale models scavenged from eBay, Facebook Marketplace and the side of the road. More about City Girls lamps are designed to look like outfits casually thrown together
On the heels of London Design Festival, we have rounded up a selection of furniture and products presented during the city-wide event made of scraps that would otherwise have gone to waste. More about Seven savvy pieces from London Design Festival made of material offcuts
Projects using reclaimed natural materials and local resources proved popular at this year's Oslo Architecture Triennale. From innovative wool tiles to monolithic stone walls, we round up key highlights from the event. More about Five stand-out projects at the Oslo Architecture Triennale
Architecture studio Pearce+ has added a wildlife tower for bats, owls, kestrels, invertebrates and wetland species at Honeygar Farm in Somerset, UK. More about Pearce+ stacks reclaimed materials to create multi-species wildlife tower
Scottish studio Loader Monteith has rebuilt a derelict farmhouse in the Scottish Highlands and added a blackened-larch extension to create a family home called Dulnain. More about Loader Monteith rebuilds ruined Highlands house with blackened-larch extension
Indian studio Meister Varma Architects has completed Shilaya, a home in Tamil Nadu built using stone salvaged from a ruined cottage that once stood on its site. More about Meister Varma Architects uses salvaged stone for home in India
Architect Marta Nowicka used an entirely reclaimed palette of scaffolding planks, hollow concrete blocks and wood-wool boards to bring a "gritty, unrefined" feel to this small studio in East Sussex. More about Marta Nowicka self-designs Camber Sands studio using waste materials
In this week's comments update, readers are discussing a public toilet block created by Studio Weave in London. More about "Canvas for a Banksy?" says commenter
Stone salvaged from a demolished office building has been used to build this toilet block, designed by Studio Weave for the public in North Paddington, London. More about Studio Weave creates stone toilet block in London to "express democracy"
From a pair of armchairs made from contrasting hides to a tyre swing wrapped in reclaimed leather and a shaded floor lamp, the Lost Hide exhibition explores creative uses for leftover leather. More about Lost Hide exhibition at Melbourne Design Week finds new uses for leather offcuts
A hotel in a former military barracks and an urban apartment created on a budget feature in our latest lookbook of intricate interiors that use reclaimed materials. More about Eight interiors transformed using reclaimed materials
Indian studio Madras Spaces has completed The Threshold House, a farmhouse in Tamil Nadu built using a locally sourced palette of repurposed brick, timber and tiles. More about Madras Spaces creates rural Indian home using "only what was necessary"
Studio Lionel Jadot has transformed a former military barracks in Ghent, Belgium, into a hotel featuring peeling plaster on the walls and furniture made from reclaimed materials. More about Lionel Jadot converts former military barracks into Jam Hotel Ghent
Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers have made recycled plastic into floor trusses for housing, arguing the waste stream could provide an abundant and sustainable structural building material. More about MIT researchers developing process to make houses from recycled plastic
The latest edition of our Dezeen Debate newsletter features sculptural lights made from unwanted glassware by designer Simon Skinner. Subscribe to Dezeen Debate now. More about "Amazing concept that should be celebrated" features in Dezeen Debate
Second-hand bowls, ashtrays and cat figurines are stacked on top of each other to form these sculptural lights by Swedish designer Simon Skinner, on show this week as part of Stockholm Creative Edition. More about Simon Skinner arranges unwanted glassware like flowers to create Buké lamps
Jackson 5 member Jackie Jackson, who recently launched furniture brand Hayvenhurst with his wife Emily Jackson and Dutch designer Robert Milder, explains why he made the move from singing to sofas in this exclusive interview. More about "I've always wanted to be in the furniture business" says Jackie Jackson
Dezeen Showroom: Dutch design brand Blended has released a collection of handmade ceramic tiles made out of materials sourced from local demolition sites. More about Fundamentals tiles by Tom van Soest for Blended
Spanish designer Lucas Muñoz has created The Park cafe almost entirely from materials salvaged from an abandoned hotel for Design Mumbai 2025. More about Lucas Muñoz makes Design Mumbai cafe from "mined" hotel
Spanish designer Lucas Muñoz has created a showroom for furniture brand Sancal in a former office building in Madrid, reusing all materials from the original space that could not be recycled. More about Lucas Muñoz converts 1960s office into offbeat furniture showroom