Hello Wood builds Budapest Christmas tree from 5000 pieces of firewood
Hungarian architecture studio Hello Wood has created an 11-metre-high Christmas tree for a square in central Budapest from 15,000 kilograms of wooden logs (+ movie). More
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A tree grows up through voids in Hamada Design's Glass + Wood building
Rectangular voids in the projecting timber decks of this beauty salon and office building in Japan by Osaka studio Hamada Design frame foliage that grows from a bed on the ground floor (+ slideshow). More
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David Chipperfield installs tree trunk columns in Mies van der Rohe's Neue Nationalgalerie
David Chipperfield has filled the Mies van der Rohe-designed Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin with 144 tree trunks – the museum's final exhibition before renovation work by the British architect starts. More
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Trees and exhibition stands line up with skylights inside Umwelt's Ambient 30_60 pavilion
This pavilion in Santiago by Chilean studio Umwelt is made up of white steel frames that outline artworks, seating and small trees beneath a series of skylights (+ slideshow). More
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Sisii showroom by Yuko Nagayama & Associates is interspersed with rockeries
Holes in a wrought iron platform are filled with planted rockeries at this Kobe showroom by Yuko Nagayama & Associates for Japanese fashion brand Sisii (+ slideshow). More
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B.E. Architecture designs Sydney house extension around mature gum tree
The extension to this refurbished house in Australia includes a covered outdoor space built around the trunk of a large lemon-scented tree (+ slideshow). More
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Nieto Sobejano scores Estonian cultural centre for composer Arvo Pärt
News: Spanish office Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos has won a competition to design a woodland cultural centre for the organisation run by Estonian composer Arvo Pärt, after claiming their proposal won't involve felling a single tree (+ slideshow). More
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Rooftops of Vo Trong Nghia Architects' House for Trees covered in greenery
Trees grow on top of five concrete boxes, like oversized pot plants, at this house in Ho Chi Minh City by Vietnamese studio Vo Trong Nghia Architects (+ slideshow). More
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West Virginia treehouse by Mithun hosts the American boy scouts' Jamboree
A 38-metre-high treehouse by American studio Mithun is the venue for the Jamboree of the Boy Scouts of America, but also functions as a treetop exhibition centre for visitors to the surrounding West Virginia park. More
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Sou Fujimoto suspends trees above Cassina's Milan display space
Milan 2014: trees appear to float within this forest-like installation by Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto, at Cassina's stand at the Salone Internazionale del Mobile in Milan this week (+ slideshow). More
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Glowing indoor forest made from paper by Orproject
London architecture studio Orproject has installed a forest of illuminated paper trees that join up to form a continuous canopy at a gallery in New Delhi (+ slideshow). More
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Karri Loop House by MORQ folds around three indigenous Australian trees
Three mature trees were rooted to the centre of this site in Western Australia, but architecture firm MORQ managed to convince the owners to build their family house around the peeling trunks and burgeoning foliage (+ slideshow). More
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Christmas tree made from sledges
The 365 wooden sledges used to construct this Christmas tree in Budapest by Hungarian designers Hello Wood will be given to a local children's charity following the festive period (+ movie). More
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Ippolito Fleitz Group installs metal trees in natural foods restaurant
Undulating branches emerge from the centre of a dining table at this Swiss natural foods restaurant by Ippolito Fleitz Group (+ slideshow + photographs by Zooey Braun). More
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Spruce Stove that burns a whole tree trunk by Michiel Martens and Roel de Boer
The wood for this stove by Michiel Martens and Roel de Boer needn't be chopped as whole tree trunks can be fed into it (+ slideshow). More
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Tree House by 6a Architects
London studio 6a Architects has extended the home of architecture critic Rowan Moore and his family by adding a timber structure that curves around a tree (+ slideshow). More
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Baitogogo by Henrique Oliveira at Palais de Tokyo
A twisted entanglement of tree branches appears to grow organically from the beams of Paris' Palais de Tokyo museum in this installation by Brazilian artist Henrique Oliveira (+ slideshow). More
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+node by UID Architects
This cantilevered wooden house by Japanese studio UID Architects hovers ten metres above the forest floor and has a hole underneath to let trees grow up inside (+ slideshow). More
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The Cocoon by AA Design & Make
Students from London's Architectural Association have suspended a giant wooden cocoon between the trees of Hooke Park in Dorset, England (+ slideshow). More
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Urban Stories: Naturescape by Kengo Kuma
Milan 2013: bamboo trees sprouted up around a topographical landscape of stone and water at this installation created by Japanese architect Kengo Kuma in Milan last month. More
