Mexican studio TO Arquitectura has worked with the local community to create a music school that features a vault made from recycled and donated masonry in Mexico City. More about TO Arquitectura creates vaulted Mexico City music school from reclaimed masonry
Seattle-based designer Jay Sae Jung Oh has created a chair made of discarded instruments hand-wrapped in cords of cowhide leather. More about Jay Sae Jung Oh creates chair with discarded instruments wrapped in leather
Salvaged wood and colourful murals by local artists are among the decorative features in the NBBJ-designed Odessa Brown Children's Clinic, which combines medical services with public amenities like a basketball court and community kitchen. More about NBBJ creates pediatric clinic in Seattle with "no blank walls"
Designer Andu Masebo took great care to avoid making anything "naff or kitsch" when transforming a scrapped car into eight furniture pieces, currently on display at the V&A for London Design Festival. More about Andu Masebo crafts furniture from remains of a single car at LDF
Sculptures crafted from recycled BMW airbags and oak railway sleepers feature in artist Frederik Molenschot's Atlas 2000 exhibition, which is on display at Carpenters Workshop Gallery in Paris. More about Frederik Molenschot presents debut solo sculpture show at Carpenters Workshop Gallery
For our latest lookbook, Dezeen has selected eight examples of interiors that were created with reclaimed and recycled materials, including a restaurant in Bangalore and a brick house in Ghent. More about Eight interiors that feature reclaimed and recycled materials
US studio Harding Huebner Architects has completed a low-lying, energy-efficient home informed by the "agrarian barns and humble structures" found in America's Appalachian Region. More about Harding Huebner perches Meadow House on hillside in North Carolina
Germany's contribution to this year's Venice Architecture Biennale is a huge store of materials recovered from last year's art biennale, all set to find new uses around the city. More about German pavilion becomes material bank for Venice repair projects
Minneapolis-based architecture studio MSR Design has installed a tech campus within the shell of a 70-year-old abandoned steel mill in Pennsylvania, adding three colourful buildings and a massive solar array to the rooftop. More about MSR Design places colourful buildings and walkways in skeleton of Pittsburgh steel mill
Copenhagen-based Natural Material Studio and designer Zuzanna Skurka have created an installation at Milan design week from soft bio textiles made from surplus bricks. More about Natural Material Studio creates "flexible and organic" Brick Textiles
Architect and restaurateur Elly Ward has opened the low-impact restaurant Edit in London, drawing inspiration from its vegan, minimal-waste menu to create an interior filled with reused and recycled materials. More about Elly Ward designs own restaurant Edit using salvaged terracotta tiles and reclaimed materials
In this exclusive video produced by Dezeen, Resolve Collective discusses its latest architectural installation at the Barbican, which takes the form of an interactive landscape to be used for community organisation. More about Resolve Collective reimagines role of institutions in Barbican installation
Locally produced bricks and recycled materials feature in this vaulted residence in Kerala, India, named The Wendy House. More about Earthscape Studio nestles vaulted house in Kerala forest
French creative studio Matière Noire used 1.3 tonnes of vintage clothing, compressed into three rectangular towers, to decorate the runway of Marine Serre's Autumn Winter 2023 show at Paris Fashion Week. More about Eight-metre-high clothing towers rise above Marine Serre's Autumn Winter 2023 runway
Expanded cork, construction waste and human urine feature in this roundup of brick alternatives, designed to reduce the masonry unit's embodied carbon footprint. More about Seven alternative bricks made of reclaimed waste and biomaterials
In this exclusive video by Dezeen, the Design Museum curator Kathryn Johnson discusses the work of the Campana brothers, currently featured in the Design Museum's exhibition Objects of Desire: Surrealism and Design 1924 – Today. More about Campana brothers showcase design "through contamination" in the Design Museum's Objects of Desire exhibition
A team of current and former students from the University of the Arts London have collaborated to create mobile storage units, allowing classmates to deposit and collect materials as part of a "circular economy of sharing". More about UAL rolls out Re-Use donation boxes where students can leave and source materials
Architecture studios Carmody Groarke and TRANS Architectuur Stedenbouw have collaborated with material researchers to develop a brick made from local construction waste, which will be used to build the new wing of the Design Museum Gent. More about Municipal waste used to form low-carbon brick for Design Museum Gent extension
Designer Helena Elston has created a collection of upcycled clothing made from mycelium and London-sourced textile waste, which explores "how we can produce beautiful things from discarded materials". More about Helena Elston designs decomposable garments from mycelium and recycled materials
Interior construction firm Semba Corporation has renovated the interior of its headquarters in Tokyo to include reclaimed materials discarded during the demolition of other offices. More about Semba Corporation creates own office interior from reclaimed materials